Disliked3000% is peanuts!
100% x 3 trades of 200 pips ^3 times compounded = 2700%Ignored
A Different Kind Of Challenge - From 1000 to >1000 0 replies
Risk 1%, RR 1:2, 50% win rate, 2 trades per day, 1000%+ year 122 replies
Made 1000% or more/Day ever? > Brag here 24 replies
Yesterday +140, December 2006 +1000 26 replies
A $1000 book.. 30 replies
DislikedMany many years ago ('97 or '98) I did 2076% in one year trading stocks ... your 3000% in a day is impressive!
I took concentrated positions in stocks (only 2:1 margin) ... and the trading was volatile. Sometimes I had -30% drawdowns for the month ... but overall over 1 year I think I averaged 11% per week.
The best trade I ever did was shorting an internet stock (CMGI or something). It fell pretty nicely over 3 days as the market got hammered ... and I covered one morning on a gap down. It continued to fall, and I bought 3k shares, 3k...Ignored
DislikedI used to trade stocks, I traded the UK AIM mostly oil stocks and pump and dumps, the money was good and it wasn't uncommon to see a stock rise or fall 25% and more in a day, all it took was a few forum, tweets and chatroom posts! back then (2010) there were no HFT's / flash traders in those stocks so it was easy to read the order book, in those days broker man dan would post a tweet and the stock would move 10% within minutes, I made money through hedge bracket orders with 2 broker accounts. My margin was 1:1 as it was all AIM. I traded with MF...Ignored
DislikedThanks!
I couldn't resist to use the dip this morning to reenter (please not I've took out ~15k of the account so I decided to risk something again).
Stop at BE. Target? Don't know yet.
http://www.xaron.net/dl/fx/2011/op_silver_280911.pngIgnored
DislikedYep, it was a bet indeed. I had luck that it was a V shaped move without any correction in between.Ignored
DislikedSeriously, I had a very lucky shot with this one, NAV is >1000%. LOL. It IS possible to make these gains even though is was pure luck and the feeling that this down move was totally overblown.
http://www.xaron.net/dl/fx/2011/acc_silver_270911.png
http://www.xaron.net/dl/fx/2011/op_silver_270911.png
I started with 500 units silver at 26.50 and added all the way up. Target is 33-40, still not sure.Ignored
DislikedSeriously, I had a very lucky shot with this one, NAV is >1000%. LOL. It IS possible to make these gains even though is was pure luck and the feeling that this down move was totally overblown.
http://www.xaron.net/dl/fx/2011/acc_silver_270911.png
http://www.xaron.net/dl/fx/2011/op_silver_270911.png
I started with 500 units silver at 26.50 and added all the way up. Target is 33-40, still not sure.Ignored
DislikedI don't wanna be the hater here, but you know it could have turned out against you. That's like gambling, so I'm sorry but I don't see any merit in it...Ignored