How much money I could make from investors?

Believe

Today it was an easy trading. I mostly traded some numbers at different levels. Looking at the trade list I made quite many trades, closing for a 3 to 10 pips. I will talk about the issues I am currently having, gbpjpy is a good example.



Today was a trend day, gbpjpy moved 100+ pips from my first entry. I had the sell view in mind. Why I didn't let the trade open? Well, maybe I wanted to close something and re-enter in case of a pullback, at a better position. Didn't happen as planned, in fact I was doing sell - close 10 pips market moved a little bit down, then sell again for a few more pips, and so on ... I haven't really wait for a better position, and I find this bad as in case of a trend change I have a bad position to deal with. Some reasons are known to me and it has to do with the way that I trade ...

Other issue I have is that I trade too much. I have moments when I am almost flat then I look a little on different pairs and find new entries ... nothing bad to say so far, them were profitable, little scalping here and there ... but I have the feeling that I could do better, safer, less trading, better trading.

And plenty of other issues but it's enough for now.

Currently I am at 300% initial capital or 60% all time ... whatever those % ... it's a good return in money!

Is here! Is here!
Future Simulator is here!

Although there is no need to hurry up, I hurry up to bring it up.
Future Simulator TE attached to this thread.

The major issue of Futures Simulator was the absence of an way out system that caused a carrying dd. The issue still exists, still haven't decided on the approach of the way out from the problematic trades - I have several alternatives in mind.

What is in the current version?
Many trades exclusions, looking to trade good accuracy and profitability, <1/4 trading capacity of what was in the past with this conditions, will run at previous capacity in the coming days. Trading 13 currency pairs but some of them might be excluded - the dormant ones. Plenty of other bla bla bla but is important to let it trade.
In summary it means that it will trade less and better, therefore the way out issue is limited.

What about "How much money I could make from investors?"?
The investors chasing prostitution is still on hold, no copy signal option available, a charity TE is visible.
This is a pre-production version: lower risk, capital, volume, ...

What a rainy day today! Collecting the water is a good thing to do, therefore I took two buckets, one Believe and one M.I. and went outside to get the water. The M.I. one I placed it under some eaves for a easy filling. The Believe one I filled it in a harder way, move it all around to collect the little drops. Now it gives stopping signs but I am fine with what I got. I don't look for rainy days, every day is just a new fantasy day.

Future Simulator
Hm .. started with 4 eurchf - it was supposed to be only 2 ... the first 2 got closed with 3 pips by a left over code, the other 2 I closed myself with <2 pips. A few other trades arrived. Then, the 2 eurgbp trades that are still open, opened at a 300ms time distance but 7 pips between them! Aiii ... big battle at that moment, more than 50 orders executed in between on my boat ... The 2nd trade was supposed to be at a better position ... I should push it for some more, that is to say, pending order at a better position instead of a direct execution ... a little more trade management needed ...

Believe is doing too well, it's about time to get in trouble.
I have a buy on gbpjpy that I don't really like it ... There is also a sell open with a lower volume ... there is a plan too.

Few minutes before dax and dow opening I had the thought to sell them, even thought to set a script for a better execution ... then I got distracted with something else ... I am in but missed the opening.
What? distracted?!? ... anyway, I closed a 1.3% on usdjpy, eurgbp and a great eurusd ... while I was distracted.

How I can get in trouble?
I trade dax and dow...

Out of dax and kept the dow, then I realized that it should have been the other way and added extra to the dow.

I made a few more trades and now Believe is more than 100% on the max capital, initial + 4x initial. It is not realistic to compare the progression with the initial capital as I used more volume that the initial capital could have supported.

I should look less at the market as I always find something to trade. Ah, I looked a little bit, just sold eurusd @ 1.1776.

Out of dow, eurusd and a few others. Most of the time I could have stayed in for more. I am on the right track as long as I have good trades.
A thing to mention is that I haven't increased the volume as the account got bigger ... I even lowered it in some cases.

Sold dax @ 12924

Future Simulator is sort of an airbnb for dormant pairs. It is not trading much either, I haven't done much to it lately ... definitely not keen to see it making hundreds of trades / week and be back in the previous situation.
Now it's aiming for a minimum 7 pips ... a little bit less would have closed some of the current trades. Right, I will deploy something after this post to get closer to the old capacity of this setup.

Belive and MI (Mission : Impossible)
Somehow on Believe I am having a constant daily close-up in the last 3 days (?) ..., how many days ? ... well, I am getting something, a bit more than something...
I should work more on my entries, even if the market follows me, I could get much out of it. Not complaining so far, if the market moves 10 pips, I get 9, if it moves 6 I get 5 ... the rest is the spread, etc ... also, I trade when I can, I haven't done much chart look-up and painting this week, I noticed a considerable trading accuracy when I look and design something on a chart... I don't pollute myself with indicators or other things.
I executed a few trades on MI too, looking for a different approach.

Dividends Equity Indices - https://www.xm.com/equity-indices

I was searching for this page yesterday while I was thinking whether I should let us30 open over night or not due to the dividends on CFD's. I paid the top of the week.

Good day to trade some numbers, specially on the pound after the pigeons went out from some guys mouth ... no need for chart look-up but look how much it moved and go in for some once in a while.

Took something in each account, MI is cleaner, looking to buy gbpjpy, a little bit reticent due to the jpy friendship status with it's other friends.

A bit annoyed with Future Simulator, a bit annoyed with other things ...

Still a dream...

I increased last night the capacity. In the past I arrived to look at a possible trade from 4 dimensions ... or less si-fi, from 4 angles. It never arrived to run at full capacity, not even for normal accuracy trades ... as it can look up for <3 pips, 7 pips, X pips ... and so on, plus different levels of accuracy ... it's getting si-fi ... And after more angles and after more strategies/patterns to integrate ... and many many other ideas ... to create a small black hole.
With the last night deployment I am now touching 2 angles for a particular look-up ... from what is now open, 2 out of 9 are from the 2nd angle which has better trades.
(*edit, extra: 4 angles by pattern does not mean 4 tries, ... each pattern with an angle could go easily to #x..x of combinations to look-up in a tick life, and there are #x..x patterns, ... I had a lot of fun, a lot of innovative ideas to glue together, a smart architectural design, ...)

..., whatever, the next aspect is more important, post #1 and #2:

BAD BAD BAD right from the start! I was doing things to please the others ...

What's next?

Reality X

Since a while I am exploiting more and more the idea of committing a serious amount for trading and look to make even a ridiculous one figure % that will offer a considerable extra income or a decent living.
Current situation?
- Future Simulator is still having issues with the floating dd.
- Manual trading is improving but is not reliable, I can make few 100s % in a day, then loose, then another 100s % ...

Initially I was thinking to start it somewhere mid next year. Would I be ready by that time? I don't know! Then, when and how I will know when I will be ready? There are some ways as:
- be successful for X months (3?6?12?..?).
- go from x$ to y$
- specific goals! but what kind?
- ...?
Good practices but I see issues too.

Then, a brilliant idea hit me. Before going to a classical confidence test do something else: take every account that has loses and make it positive!
I haven't really made yet an account inventory but I have plenty of this kind, account that require a lot of trading to reach the goal and sufficient to build confidence. Ones this will be done maybe I will go for some classical tests before the main commitment.

Isn't it that nice? Should it be a successful test I will also have a considerable extra amount to trade too.

How I will approach it?
Take first the accounts that have small losses, put some money into it and make it positive. Once done, move the/some money to other account.

E.g.: once, I was testing something with let's say 100$. It didn't worked out, lost all. It might be that I added another 100$ to it for something else. It worked out or not, I took money out or did more tests ... in the end the account has let's say 500$ loss.
I will put x$ and try to make it positive.
But how big x$ should be?
- 500$? >100% would be needed
- 1000$? >50% would be needed
- 1m$? ... hehe

I don't know but I already started my test without knowing!
This month I restarted Future Simulator in one account that it had about 25+% loss regarding to the last deposit. Then Future Simulator started to trade, it closed about 5% on gain, floating dd around 15% ... then idea came, yesterday I started to add some manual trades too and now I am at a 5% all time loss. I can admit that it was harder than I initially thought! I was pushing, over leverage, over risk, over ... even the last clean-up was not at a good moment ... still not done, it wasn't the day ... and here there are the issues I have to correct! It doesn't matter if I trade manually or automatically ... in the end it is me.
I will keep on focusing on automatic trading as I believe I can make it successful. It is my wish to go.

Too much talking.
It might not work all the time, I won't allow forever looses ... maybe stopping it is the best choice.

Attached TE: Reality 1 - account where Future Simulator is trading and some manual trades. I will keep on adding (I have another one for manual trading ... not yet visible ... I should look for a new one too).

Thank you!

Nice! I should do it faster as I have more to recover...

Reality 1 - done!

I needed 5% to call it done, and it proved to be harder to make it compare with the other 20% I already did.

Closed eurjpy with 0.9% / 3.7 pips. Then it dropped! Ahh!!! Why did I woke up that early? Why my internet worked today? letting it open, it would have made job done easier. Fine! I got it! I need this kind of events to prepare me for the future!
Then I made other trades where I was too soon in, too soon out ... dd was going from 1% to 15% in no time ... a bit of over leverage. Future Simulator had a few trades, all positive
About lunch time I was in eurgbp, needed 1% to call it done, there were moments when I was a bit positive but I didn't closed the trade as I was looking to get more out of it - why not? there is no prize if the account is positive but a wasted good trade. Then again same story with 1-10% dd ... and finally I closed the trade and called it done.

Next - Reality 2!

About 13% to recover on the current capital. I can easily make it show 80% or ... but this is not the point. I hope I won't use much capital, have a ridiculous dd ... In money I have to get back a little bit less than Reality 1.

I used this account for the Opportunity signal where the things went bad right from the start!


Should I be successful, at the end I will be the user with the most TE attached!

Reality 2 - done!

I made also an extra 5.1% on it.

Next - Reality 3!

This account was used initially for a HRHR strategy with MQC Reloaded signal - more info on page 4. Later on I used the account for a few other strategies ...
I have to recover about 16% on the current equity, in money it's more than Reality 1.

Mission: Possible

Same challenge idea as the Mission Impossible but not it's a Mission Possible.
Deadline: 21.12.2017
Most important rule: All trades must be positive and closed before deadline.
Leverage: Between 1:10 to 1:15 ( I wish not to go for more).
Goal: hehe, few 100s% ...

How Mission Impossible ended?
Not as wanted but the account won't go in the account recovery test - Reality X as the equity was bigger than the deposit.

I have too many nightmares on this subject, therefore I will publish a signal service after the first 100%.
Seconds later
Why should I wait for the 1st 100% to start it, especially when there is such a big queue to start trading with me ... I will publish a signal right from the start!
Seconds later, after connecting to the mql5 website
I will think more about it ...

Future Simulator - ... mmm! (now trading on Reality 3)



A few words about an important issue and the current version.
Friday while flying - as usual ... the flight time a little bit more than 1h ... no mood for a specific activity, I open the laptop - not a typical activity, and start looking over some filters I use for the new trades. I was quite annoyed by the latest trades where dd went to >15% in a few days ... is true that the market moved a lot but still ... if no clean-up the trades would have been positive now, ...., ... and as I was looking I realized that I was using trades with a higher risk ... some of them even more than 10x times ... yep, before 'the holiday' I was looking to ... whatever, I will see how the future will look like from now on.

I attached an image where the comment is important.
aa/bb/xx ... is an angle on how I look to a trade, then a trade tracker to identify it's creation circumstances + a lot of bunch of stuff, then a scoring info at an incipient implementation ... this is why sometime there are several trades at almost the same time. In the past I was displaying more info in the comment, like the trade risk/expectancy but I shortened it as I wanted to do a live web page for better status overview ... it would have helped me sport the issue sooner.

I enabled a few more trades from where I will take less profit ... I will do different changes without writing about them, now I felt like having a note about the current situation.

... whatever, I will see how the future will look like from now on.

I was just selling gbpjpy @ 148.14(18) having in mind that it's 149.xx ... 30 min later I realized the price and went out with a small profit.

Reality 3 - 50% of money remained to be recovered.
Mission: Possible - 2.3% gain

Selling usdjpy, gbpypy, eurjpy ... but it doesn't look too good atm.

I was in too early then for a moment I had a profit but a smile to job done in this account made me keep the trades open ... few seconds later I was loosing again ... a bit unsure to let it for more, out with some profit and a 25% of money remained to be recovered.

It's a weird why Future Simulator had very few trades today, I will check it later.

Future Simulator: is fine, maybe I will add some logs to see how many trades are excluded, trade them virtually ...
MP: 2.6% ... tiny trades.
Reality 3: 2.8% left to do.