(binned per thread starter’s request) How far I'll go?

How far I'll go?

Small equity? Enough to start a trade!
I am thinking to put a budget for different trading approaches.

I was trading with this account on the signal 'MQC Reloaded', then I followed the thread 30$ to 6 milions in 1 year and 6 months. (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=10168459) and now I will use this thread as a sort of a journal.

how far?

hm.
say you go on to double the current balance of 10$ to 20$...+100%, a great victory!
then you withdraw all the money, go to cinema with your girl and share 1 popcorn cos not enough money to buy 2.

understand the mindset, but really?
if Future Sim still doing fine, just add this money to it.
if not, then put up in the casino on any number, still your best chance to pass 300$ starting from 10$.

what i like to know how much better to waste away money 20-100$ a go, ending up totally losing 500-1000$ often in the progress, vs. collecting up for a 1000$ account, and trying to make 5% or 50$ monthly with lower drawdown, lower stress, and more realistic target?

i know, i know...it isnt fun that way, i hear you. all the excitement is gone, bla, bla. and bla.
but when end of the month come you take your girl to the cinema, and buy the 2 popcorns, and still have money left to repeat it!
what is the reason of your trading?
gambling?
making money?
your choice...

It starts as a thing to keep me busy during the week and continues with an endless list of contradictory reasons.

I have the feeling that I just started to run on the trading road, and it's not as boring as the sport one! Yes, although I started trading around 2008, most of the time I was trading for a few weeks/months a year, trying different things and then let it go for other activities. Now it's sort of a year since I started seriously.

Future Simulator - somehow the system keeps on going and it also started to make money to be considered, even if it is not at the level to deliver a low dd and clean profit. I am not excited to have a daily paid lunch. I could easily stop it all and move to something else.

Why should I invite all the unit to a meeting if only one person is needed?

'1000$ account, and trying to make 5% or 50$ monthly with lower drawdown'
-> till where the dd is low to not let go? 5%? 10%? = 50$ 100$
A strategy that will look for a trend, 1 trade 0.01 lot 500-700 pips rally, 1xx$ account, will do the same job but with different stats %dd, %growth, same $ to pay for the cinema, no?

Yes, 10$ balance could be seen as a joke, definitely not a smart approach as it will easily touch the margin call, it was supposed to be bigger but ... whatever, soon might be another round.

How should I try my ideas? I know it can get expensive, I will not finance it forever. I could have the account privately, but now it's public ... one day this thread will disappear.

In the FS account I look for long term trades on eursgd, usdsgd and gbpsgd ... at least this was the entry reason.

It wan't hard to figure it out ... this thread is out, this far it went, the thread and not the trading that stands behing. Same story continue in my main thread where I attached the TE too: How much money I could make from investors? (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=644578)