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# Why this site counts in points, not dollars
- URL: https://www.daytraderincome.com/why-points-not-dollars/
- Published: 2026-09-18T18:34:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T18:34:18.000Z
- Description: A point count is a fact with a chart attached. A dollar figure is a claim. Here's why the record will never show one.
- Author: Indy Karveli
- Tags: Day trading income, Getting started, #Import 2026-09-18 19:35

Every signal on this site is shown in points. Not dollars, not percentages, not "R". Points.

That decision does more work than any other choice on this site, so it's worth explaining properly.

## A point count is checkable

If I tell you a signal made twelve points, you can open the chart, find the entry, find the exit, and count. You don't have to believe me. The number is either on the chart or it isn't.

If I tell you a signal made four hundred dollars, you have to believe me about the size, the fill, the commission, the fees, the slippage, and whether I was even in the trade. Six things you can't check, stacked on top of one thing you can.

A dollar figure is a claim. A point count is a fact with a chart attached.

## Dollars would make it about me

The moment this site publishes what I earned, it becomes a site about my account. How big it is, how it's funded, what I risk, what I keep. All of which is interesting and none of which helps you.

What helps you is knowing whether the rules hold up. Points tell you that. Dollars tell you how much capital I brought, which is a different question and a much less useful one.

## The maths is yours to do

One MNQ contract has a point value, and CME publishes it. Your broker publishes your commissions. You know your own fills. So the arithmetic that turns points into money is entirely in your hands:

**Net points × CME's MNQ point value − your costs = your number.**

That number is what a session would have been worth to you at one MNQ. It's honest because every input is yours. It would be dishonest if I did it for you, because I'd be quietly substituting my costs and my fills for yours.

## What that means for "income"

The name of this site is Day Trader Income, and the record never shows a dollar of it. That's not a contradiction. It's the point.

Everything else published about day trading income is a figure someone wants you to believe. Salary sites disagree with each other by a factor of two. Education companies quote ranges that happen to justify the course. Screenshots show one day and imply every day.

I can't fix any of that. What I can do is publish the one thing that isn't a claim — every signal, every session, in a unit you can verify — and let you do the last step yourself. That's the closest thing to an honest answer this subject has.

## What I never publish

Which signals I took. Whether I traded at all on a given day. What I earned. My account size. None of it, ever. The moment I start, everything above stops being true.

Notice 

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