How much money I could make from investors?

Long drive yesterday, about 1k km ... my car is a BMW 5 Series equipped with the Head-up display - a must have option I would say. More than ever, yesterday I felt the need to have a trading app integrated in my car, not in the dashboard display but in the head-up display. Custom setup for the driving wheel buttons. Could you imagine? What a dream! Hey BMW, what you're waiting for?
I don't drive too often lately, I have other car too, I mostly walk during the week.

I am not very enthusiastic for a fresh new restart, maybe due to the known current issues in the automatic trading ... still trading in the old accounts.

I restarted my patterns development to bring more trades, safe trades. Next week I think I will start implementing that highly mentioned way out system ... I also do some manual trading, of different types.

How it went? I made profit but I didn't reached my final goal I had in mind. One week before the deadline all the trades on eurnzd were in profit and I could have closed them. I would have had maybe 40%-50% profit but only one week left to make more, like double.
A further drop of eurnzd looked promising, plenty of nzd news during that week, and that's way I didn't went out of the trades. The drop didn't happened.

The future of this account?
I will keep on holding those trades for a while, high swap payout ... somehow I see a massive drop just after I go out.
I will look for other long trending trades.
I will try to keep the dd low in the future, it was high at some point.
Plenty of I will, ... one more?
I will look to make profit, take it out and enjoy.

TE added but not for long.

Interesting day today, slipping money just woke up.
I don't have a real closing target for the eurnd trades ... the ideal tp is too far. Close some trades and open later, ... maybe, I don't know.

Long driving day for me today... Thanks EU for cutting the internet cost on roaming!

I closed some trades, better having the money home.
As it say "You can always open a new trade later", let's see if it will be the case in this pair too ... but for sure other opportunities will be as long the money is with me.

Next candidate is a short on eurchf ... cause skiing in Switzerland looks too cheap at the current exchange rate.

Although the intention was to keep the trades from MP account for a long period, I went out from all the trades as the profit looked OK to be taken. I went out also because of being too right from the start, don't feel like adding extra to the winners.
The expected drop on eurnzd happened, without me, but it could have been the other way as when I got stuck with it for a long time. I had a few attempts to re-enter but I didn't do it.

Today I was thinking that even if my schedule don't allow me to be available during London/US open, I could be during Sydney/Tokyo plus some extremes from the others ... but there isn't much action during this time. The current move on JPY kinda contradicts my thoughts. I don't sleep much during the week and when I do somehow my mind is connected to the market ... I just woke up to close the trades on gbpjpy and usdjpy.

The trading style from MP account is different now, where initially I was looking to get some trends now I am taking more small trades ... I don't really have a trend view over something, haven't look in much detail either. I am detecting feelings to be in something, I might not open new trades today (?) unless something interesting.

This is an ecn account with commission build in spread but this morning I got again a few off quotes messages while I was closing some trades. Thinking to change the account type or move the money in a place where will have more means in the future.

Not a big secret for the account equity, TE public now, 1k start-up. Big? Small? it's my money, I look at the profit and I like it!
With this account I participated to the Jackpot competition ... no winnings, realistically close to be a winner!

Nice profit today, 270+ eur.
I don't really look at the representative % as the account equity is not as I would normally look to have in future. I would say that even in a 10k account I might trade the same volume as now in a 2k account, therefore today would be a 2.7% instead of 12.7%. It is sufficient once scaled with the right global equity.

From all the today's trades one was special to me, the sell from gbpusd.
Different results were about to be released on gbpusd when I went in. I took gbpusd as in my perception it didn't moved much lately. I entered before the news as I was thinking it will go down and it won't go much up. I was right, a shy up and then went down. While it was going down my thinking was where to set the take profit ... as I was about to go to lunch. My tp view was somewhere 2x more than I took but somehow while thinking about the tp I decided to exit as was a good take, 38 eur. Just after I went out from gbpusd a China news moved the market impressively.
I enter other trades after, more volume and even more pairs simultaneously. I was quite accurate, I don't think I reached a 200 eur dd at max loss time.



Future Simulator is trading in Reality account, TE visible again. I also trade there too. The equity is higher.
I will write about how things went there in other post.
I think I am getting boring (at least me with myself) with the way out system, I hope to bring back the writings once I will have something done, automatic format.
So far I am locked in 3 pairs: usdcad (nice spike now), usdchf and usdjpy. In this cases the way out system would have lowered the exposure, exit from usdcad. It wouldn't have worked out on eurnzd trades from last night. I am happy with the current results, plenty of good trades and very few issues.

Deadline is over, the rule is no longer valid, therefore I could close losers too ... or maybe I can't.

Almost nothing interesting in the morning, not too keen in finding something ... not a real target in mind but I was thinking that it would be great to make a 50 eur. Before lunch I was around that number.
Later there were some news that moved the market, I got some small entries .. a few more later as I was enjoying it, ... what?!? yep, I was enjoying it even if my trades were loosing ... I was down to 100e, later 150e, ... I had chances to take a few eur and go out, chances that I didn't took and then I was loosing more.
I realized the issue with my feelings. I got upset on myself! I was loosing something up to 300 when I started to focus, be serious, ..., and things got better, I made some good trades.
I am glad I could detached from myself and watch myself and spot what was wrong. Not only my feelings were the issue for the bad entries but was the main reason of failing. Like, one of them, while I was enjoying I forgot to look at the news results, looked later later ... not that I could understand much out of them but the color of the results is a good to know thing.
Somehow my profit expectancy over the current trades is to happen tomorrow ... maybe that's why I got more relaxed in the first place ... will put some trades that will be profitable tomorrow.

Mark Douglas

This name came to me at the beginning of this week while I was reading some random posts. In a two lines text, ordinary text, Mark Douglas name attracted my attention, made me youtube the name, and what I got? ... maybe it was my subconscious wish the drove my actions, youtubeing after someone is not a normal behavior for me!, ... many deep things happens to me and I believe that them are not coincidences.


There are few videos with Mark Douglas, I already saw an interview and now: How to think like a professional trader. I see it was posted at the end of December, last year.



I won't go into details, I find myself in many situations presented...

Last year before of the release of the movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I was telling to some colleagues that I will go to the cinema after I will see the previous episodes ... guess what? I was the only one of not seeing a single episode since ... it could be the same with Mark Douglas.

Enjoy!

My genuine song, looking to trade without fear in the real sense. It might take me out of the scene for a while but it is the only way to keep on going.

Meanwhile:
EurChf
now @ 1.1763
next in about ~ 24h will be @ 1.1692
in exactly 48h will be @ 1.1623 ...
wow, exactly 48h, it's against many theories, against the impact of few words on twitter...
Is my believe.
I am well in.

EurNzd
now @ 1.6856 ...
I think it will go up to 1.6951 before a massive drop to 1.5613 in literally no time.
I am light in, working on a plan.

Also shorting EurUsd and GbpUsd.

eurnzd has a sl at 1.6978 as I don't think I will add extra to it.
eurchf is getting complicated ... I will am still planning to go to ski but most probably in Austria, a little bit later than I was initially thinking. At 1.1822 I will start thinking what to do with my trades from this pair ...

I am not comfortable shorting eurusd and gbpusd, not comfortable going out, ...

Plenty of mini spikes lately, I should do something automatic to catch their retrace.

My trading.

And?

Sadly, FF.com has only a section for Scammers - Hall of Shame and nothing for the Hall of Fame traders where to post their selfies.

Finally I understood why the pound is so strong lately ... it has to do with the weather. I just saw a weather report in UK, heavy snowfall!
Imagine you're a tourist there, everything is blocked and can't go home ... exchange the money!

Not much activity lately, a lot of thinking over various aspects.

I just started to write a few code lines for a new system, more a prototype of a proof of concept idea that I will later integrate in Future Simulator. Hopefully next week I might do the live experiment.

Future Simulator had this week only one incident, a trade on usdchf that went down maybe max 300 pips ... hesitated (not really hesitation but wanted to see how things will develop) to do the manual way out around 50/70 pips and later I thought it is too late ... not a real issue but it had all it needed to spiral wrong. It retraced, now is totally out as I closed some loosing trades, globally profitable.

I am thinking to buy some coffee, looks profitable ... maybe next week.

Oh, but there was one!! ( maybe more?)
It was started by a scammer demo trader....only to find himself suspended a while later, and a few reincarnations afterwards...

Just like this great screenshot trader, who shows you lot, but never a peak at the site or account to verify what it is like. Usually for a reason.

My neighborhood is pretty crowded, I don't know my neighbors ... I think I spot one at a time but not much to say.

I end up writing my code, I let it run with trading disabled to see some logs, yesterday was running live and ... boom! it's amazing what few code lines could do (all together with some functionalities from Future Simulator). Nothing to show yet ... Today is running with trading disabled, I feel I need to be nearby for some situations.

As for manual trading, I am looking to understand more how things works in order to avoid random gains and of course catastrophic losses.

I didn't started the fresh start, still in pending with a relaxed deadline in mind. Options:
- ICM account bcs I like it but this might be it.
- Axi - to build the track record to get founded.
- Fixi - same as Axi.
- Darwinex - to get founded via the darwinia competition.
- Maybe Alpari PAMM, a last thought.

From all those options, Darwinex looks the most interesting one for me and most probably I will go with it.