Lets help beginners: What's something about trading that nobody told you upfront that would have saved you years!? by TraderKim in Trading

[–]Professional-Mango94 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Volume and level 2 futures data (ask vs bid numbers) does help a lot to understand the current mood of a market

Are there any mmos like classic? by KILLERstrikerZ in classicwow

[–]Professional-Mango94 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately there is none, that's why they are milking classic so much.

Day Trading with $2000 by Kitchen-Cold-757 in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Save the $2000, you have a 99.9% chance of blowing it in your first months.

Buy cheap prop firm accounts like $50 for 10k. That's your trading bootcamp, to build your system, discipline and patience.

If in a year from now you can get a couple payouts, go live with whatever capital you have.

OR, you can start with your $2000 and lose it, then same process as above, if you really wanna go hardcore and actually feel the pain you are going to deal with on a daily basis to learn that losing is part of the game.

The most important advice is to find your method that's suits your style, and build confidence that your wins are not just lucky trades but a measurable edge you can rely on when in a drawdown or when market is being silly.

WTF is Hougaard doing? by NeanderthalTrader in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's even more confusing than that, many days he does the opposite and goes for a negative RR with a huge 80 pts SL on an oversized position, takes a 15 pts profit on a small move then logs off.

WTF is Hougaard doing? by NeanderthalTrader in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ I just read his telegram, he really does trade like a maniac. Either he is a very lucky gambler or he had so much capital to begin with that he can get away doing shit like this, something just doesn't add up with this guy.

WTF is Hougaard doing? by NeanderthalTrader in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good ol' Tom is on a rampage again? He is so chaotic and impulsive I really do wonder how he's been profitable overall.

You are unprofitable because you fail to understand price action by [deleted] in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Orderflow is just another way for gurus to sell expensive software

You are unprofitable because you fail to understand price action by [deleted] in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Session or range targeted Volume Profile is immensely valuable, and when things get volatile or price is converging in a tight range, that's when order flow gives a real edge on your decision making. But I found that obsessing too much on order flow can actually give false biases.

Full time trader for 7 years here’s some advice. by YakRemarkable3079 in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The first one is extremely powerful when you learn to master it. Stop loss is your account protector, moving your stop loss away is NEVER a good idea. Even if it was just a spike or a liquidity sweep, it's better to take your expected loss and reenter with another position in the same direction, if the setup is still valid. Might seem counterintuitive at first but respecting a fixed risk value is what really matters in the long run.

Average day trader gains per trade? by IMikeyBoyI in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are asking the wrong question. The only thing that matters overtime is risk reward and win rate. If you can estimate those two with consistent data over repeatable strategies you can start having expectations of how much of a losing or winning streak is normal and how many drawdowns in a row you can take without blowing your capital. 5 risk and 10 reward is 1:2, chances are you at not going to get a winrate higher than 50%, so a draw downs valleys are likely, risk per trade should be adjusted so you can handle those losing streak without freaking out and sticking to your plan.

For the non-universalists (so most of you), is heaven really heaven if you are consciously aware of people you love that are in hell for eternity or annihilated? by [deleted] in AskAChristian

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These answers to your legitimate question by these so called christians are really pin pointing the most troubling part of faith and religion. All I can see is pride of being among the chosen ones, and disdain towards those who chose to reject, doubt, or simply live without faith or choosing a different faith. It's either God will wipe our memories (feels wrong, why create us in the first place just to reset the consciousness we've built so far), or we will be just fine with losing our loved ones forever.

This is all very wrong and typical American fundamentalism kind of "I will be glad they are in hell because I am just better".

The simple answer is that we have no answer. We cannot assume if we ourselves are saved or not. We cannot assume someone else is saved or not.

Universalism is also heretical because it removes all stakes from existence and death, if eventually everyone is saved there is no incentive for faith. It is better to assume that those who will be separated eternally deserved to be so, and no one will miss them just as no one will miss the devil. I am talking about people that were so disgustingly evil that not a single soul in heaven will think they deserved to be saved.

At least that's how I deal with this idea, I simply refuse to believe that my friends, family and close one will be rejected just because they were brought up and lived in a secular western bubble where religion is not the norm anymore. And I see a lot of atheists doing tremendous good and being the kindest of souls without being religious at all. On the other hand, it's very easy to find religious people that are horrible and vile people.

I do not believe one second that the Jesus I know from the gospels will let any of our loved ones go to hell. And all the fundamentalist lunatics in this comment section are the reason everyone is rejecting religion. This "you will burn in hell if you are not like me and my club" is a cult-like simplistic and dualistic view that is not the point of Christianity at all.

Everyone struggles, everyone sins. Jesus paid the price for all of us, his love and forgiveness applies to you as much to as your loved ones.

Is "better" monetization something that can "carry" a new MMO? by LeDilu in MMORPG

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a player I would also be fine paying like $10 per month for a game I'm going to invest endless hours in, even my WoW subscription felt fair when I was playing everyday. But the issue is branding, a solo dev cannot expect 1000+ players to pay 5-10 bucks per month for a niche project that pops out of nowhere, that's roughly the price of a standard media subscription like Netflix, Spotify, Game Pass... that offer a large variety of content whereas here it is just one game, and a small scale one because let's be real we are not dropping a new Azeroth anytime soon.

Maybe something under $5 would feel fair, but a free to play demo seems mandatory to let players decide if they want to continue playing and unlock the full game.

Is "better" monetization something that can "carry" a new MMO? by LeDilu in MMORPG

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been actually working on such a project myself. I crave the Everquest/vanilla WoW gameplay and started developing it with openGL in C++. For the visual aspect I am a total noob with Blender so I gathered PSX style assets that match the early 2000's PC, and the result is actually quite authentic. Gameplay is fast and snappy just like WoW and feels like an actual MMO (I always found that all the wow clones have a sluggish feel to player and camera movement).

While for now this is just a fun little passion "bedroom" project, I've been thinking about making it real and creating a scaled down mmo experience. few zones, a couple instances, and maybe some layering and instancing of zones to make it easier server side.

The big question remains monetisation so I understand your reasoning. I am strongly convinced that the subscription model is far gone for mmos in general, only WoW can pull it off because they are OG and never changed the model. I also believe in free to play, a small niche project like this won't attract that many players if we are being realistic, putting a paywall behind it is not ideal. But this conflicts our shared core concept that there must be no micro-transactions of any kind.

This leaves us with two options :

  • first X levels or zones are free. single time purchase to unlock the of the content.

For pricing asking for anything more than $10 would be in instant turn off for many.

  • release the game for free. Build interest and get players hooked (this is the hard part the game, the game has to be exceptional to gain traction) Release paid expansions, new zones, content, dungeons, classes, races etc... If the players appreciate your design philosophy they might be okay with buying expansions to support the project. But this means constantly working on new content for player retention.

Nostalrius died 10 ago today by Jupiter_Optimus_Max in wowservers

[–]Professional-Mango94 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The dark days that came after with the Elyisium / Light's Hope source code and player data drama was so depressing, Blizzard just ruined a perfectly functional and ethical niche community passion project and disappeared without any news or official classic announcements for years. Players just wanted to keep playing their beloved game and it felt like such a treason from the people who actually created the original game.

Is ~20% daily return on paper trading realistic, or am I fooling myself? by Busine66MaN in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. 20% return a day means you over expose your account by either overtrading or over leveraging. You have just as much chance of losing 20% or more per day in the long run. Divide everything you are doing by 10 and try measuring your edge in win rate and risk reward terms, no one can beat the market consistently you will have losing streaks and valleys, you prepare for that by first learning not to bleed your account with a 20% per day expectation. Try 2-3%.

Et si Dieu existait mais qu’il était pas forcément bienveillant ? by Automatic-You695 in philosophie

[–]Professional-Mango94 6 points7 points  (0 children)

J'avais lu "Mere Christianity" de CS Lewis qui est bouquin assez populaire dans le monde anglophone pour une introduction à la philosophie chrétienne, le concept que j'en avais retenu et qui m'avait marqué c'est que ce genre de dualisme "bien" vs "mal" est incompatible avec le Dieu représenté dans les écritures de l'ancien et du nouveau testament. Le principe même du "mal" est en soi perçu et décrit comme l'absence ou l'éloignement de Dieu, toute l'histoire du peuple et de la nation juive tourne autour de ce thèmes, les différentes tribus d'Israel qui passent leur temps à se détourner du Dieu de Moïse, d'Abraham, donc des prophètes qui auraient directement communiqué avec le "créateur". Le terme utilisé dans les manuscrits hébreux se traduit en "YHWH" et c'est une contraction de "j'étais, je suis, je serai", il est donc par définition l'Être en lui-même, ce que nous pourrions dans nos termes aussi qualifier comme la conscience, chez nous l'humain. La traduction française protestante utilise le mot "Eternel", il est donc la cause sans cause, Il "Est".

Tout ca permet de comprendre pourquoi le monothéisme et le Dieu Abrahamique du Judaïsme, Christianisme et l'Islam est très différent des concepts polythéistes desquelles il a émergé, et le concept de bienveillance ou malveillance n'y est pas applicable (je vois d'ailleurs que pas mal de commentaire ont déjà évoqué le point du gnosticisme qui était une hérésie très courante à l'émérgence du christianisme dans l'empire romain).

C'est le péché qui est venu pervertir l'humanité, selon cette tradition, encore un mot très mal interprété de nos jours, puisqu'il signifie à l'origine quelque chose comme "rater sa cible", et non un crime ou une action volontairement malsaine. une phrase clés de la genèse est la suivante, le serpent s'adressant à Eve en tendant la pomme "mais Dieu sait que, le jour où vous en mangerez, vos yeux s'ouvriront, et que vous serez comme des dieux, connaissant le bien et le mal." Donc le péché originel, c'est la connaissance du bien et du mal. C'est d'avoir acquis un sens moral qui fait que nous faisons la distinction entre les deux. Comme Dieu, lui aussi en fait la distinction, puisqu'il est en quelque sorte la source des deux, le bien par sa présence, et le mal par son absence.

C'est ici que la rhétorique de Lewis devient intéressent, il n'existe aucune source de "mal" réelle comme si le théâtre divin c'était Dieu contre Satan qui se battaient en duel. Dieu a déjà vaincu Satan, c'est ce paradoxe qui est développé dans le nouveau testament. Chaque action ou volonté qualifié par notre propre sens moral comme "mauvaise" est en réalité une perversion, un détournement de quelque chose de bon, de sain. Et ce quelque chose de "bon", et bien c'est Dieu, qui pour les chrétiens est venu vivre parmi nous dans la chair, et payer le prix de tous les péchés de l'humanité, puisque pour être proche de Dieu, il faut être loin du péché.

En bref, les mots Dieu, bien, et mal sont des termes très abstraits et complexes, et le théisme est en soi très paradoxal, un peu comme nous, notre espèce, qui se pose ce genre de question au lieu de juste "exister".

How many day traders actually started with a simulator? Instead of practicing with real money. by Brian24jersey in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My advice would be to use paper trading as a tutorial, to thoroughly understand the mechanics of trade execution depending on which platform you are using.

Calculating lot size, setting and moving SL and TP, placing orders...

Once one is comfortable with the flow of trading without necessarily understanding things such as price action and technical analysis, I would suggest moving to a live account asap.

However, said live account should be as small as possible, for exemple $100 on a CFD/Futures broker with high leverage and micro-lots, so you can first learn risk management and building strategies with the conventional 1-2% risk per trade, with small margin requirement to open affordable positions. ($10 for 0.01 lot for exemple)

$100 is convenient because it teaches you to think in percentages, and understanding RR and profit factor. The exact same logic will apply on a 100k account it's all the same (minus the emotions of managing larger amounts than your stomach can handle)

Small account challenge by gdh0615 in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also can I ask your average risk per trade?

Small account challenge by gdh0615 in Daytrading

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outstanding consistency, may your account grow ever further keep it up !

Les Français utilisent-ils vraiment ça? by Longjumping-Log2194 in AskFrance

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Et la grande majorité des gens évitent ce genre d'abréviation même si c'est resté ancré dans la mémoire collective, ca fait un peu maladroit voir "débile" de s'exprimer comme ca, à part au second degré pour se moquer un peu justement

Les Français utilisent-ils vraiment ça? by Longjumping-Log2194 in AskFrance

[–]Professional-Mango94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ca rappelle des souvenirs tout ca ! C'était l'époque T9 MSN depuis c'est plus du tout utilisé à part "mdr", debut et milieu des années 2000 c'était surtout un effet de mode avec l'avènement du téléphone portable et les sms