Frequently Asked Questions

Discovery Trading Group (DTG) is an experimental blog created and managed by a group of professional traders with its own unique format.  DTG was created after implementing a unique process in our offices for each trading session. The process involves the individual creation of market sentiment and support and resistance levels plus descriptive written commentary by each trader which are shared and reviewed by each of the partners. We have discovered that this process of sharing ideas forces each of us to think more clearly about what we say since it is to be “published”, so to speak.   Through publishing, each of us has found that by refining our ideas and consistently improving results. In short, traders at any level can always learn, refine, and improve. One of our partners suggested that we extend our sharing to an anonymous public blog to see if this process might become even more dynamic and interesting.  Though admittedly selfish at the outset, we have grown to understand that this blog can also serve as a way to give back to the retail trading community which ironically we trade against every day. We published freely for nearly a year.  We sincerely hoped that the materials would help struggling traders cut through all the retail marketing hype once and for all to get to the source of what successful intraday futures trading is all about.

Over time, we’ve had to change our approach to freely providing trading information to the public.  The public interaction became a burden as we got bombarded with comments and private emails Our trading operations began to suffer from the reduced attention.  We had to turn off the comments functionality of the blog and virtually eliminate our public email interaction.  However, we found our small membership to be exactly the opposite.  It is the type of trader interaction that we enjoy.  Since the members have a little ‘skin’ in the game through monthly membership commitments, most members are very focused on learning both from DTG and other members.  The interaction has helped the DTG partners formalize many of our thoughts on trading and has created an impressive knowledge base of trading information in the member forum.

The original experiment of trying to share all that we do and interacting with everyone had to come to an end, other than the daily worksheets, levels, and example trades we post in thge public area after the close, of course.  All detailed ad otherwise more timely interaction with traders is now done through a private member forum and a member chat room.  We will continue to share trading information through webinars, YouTube videos, twitter, and possibly other web-based outlets as well in the future; however all one on one interaction with the DTG partners is now through membership only due to the aforementioned time constraints.

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