How much money I could make from investors?

Active day today, and the latest changes are quite effective for some setups. Always room for improvements and new ideas to put in place but my next main attention is going in the direction of expanding the setups for bigger moves where I could take much more chunks from the market once.

For my neighbor that monitors my grass, the fixi acc is 5k.

Quiet day, nothing special except one thing: the gbpnzd trade from fixi.
It looks like someone really wanted me to have this trade on fixi, after 8 different drops and many attempts to pass the 'go live' exam, a trade finally managed to live. It attracted my attention as the trade arrived from a setup where the market should have had a significant move but it didn't ... the only setup that had a tiny open door for failure ... well, the market found it. I knew about it, still ignorant here and there ... maybe sometime is with a reason, maybe another way to get trust in what I do.
Surprisingly, not a single noise on the icm account.
No real issue, and looking how the market moved later I would have been out without troubles.

I will start trading with AXI too, only have to decide the capital to wire.

Intended to make it via wire so that I won't go in any extra bank account verification as the withdraw can't be via cc. Since no commission on the cc payment, no intention to withdraw too soon, capital thoughts were for 3k or 5k ... I founded the axi account with 3k.
I will start with the same setups as on the other accounts, only volume differences ... will see later for other adjustments.
Compare to fixi, the axi account is connected with an IB that will give me 1.35eur/lot, nice extra and maybe I will go with icm on the same way.

Today I used the FF.com search to locate and old post of mine and surprisingly, I noticed a writing of my neighbor from last weekend where he basically assign me the status that most of the other neighbors receive when they are sent on early retirement. Quite strange since I have no public business in here, ... yet, ... I will prepare ground for something in this area.
I will send some money to Alpari and start trading in a pamm (wire transfer as the commission on cc deposit is quite high). I will have to do my tests, etc ..., no public offer too soon, could be a drop if I don't like it, and also, the system is quite new ... have to set some strict comfortable rules, should be fun. I don't need to advertise myself around my neighbor house, everybody see good results when and where they are. I will come back to this soon.

Back to the main subject, is easy to notice why my neighbor has this attitude.
Usually, when one buys a kitchen (?) looks to have full service from the company and not small services to link together, therefore this companies have all the connections with the other service providers.
Although he has a lot of toys in his portfolio he is lacking an important aspect: real trading. I could understand why no real trading, as real trading requires some skills like courage to ask the broker for a real account, connect to it, ... etc., ... still, no problem with that and everything could have been alright if my neighbor knew what fair play is ... but no, he put those doing real trading in a bad image, like:
- see that flooded house? you don't want to happen to you too, therefore no water connection to your sink. But, I have a bucket and a user guide for it ... I will try to save you from self sabotaging.
- see that user %dd? you don't want this to ...

Serious things now, my today trades are quite different even if the same setups, ...

Better entries!
Another interesting day, all the trades from today closed without the need of extra trades (one closed with loss, maybe I will look at it or maybe not as I don't expect to have a major discovery).
Less extra trades, less %dd but less profit.
One told me: don't make it too sophisticated! It is not!

Better entries, fine! ... what is next?
I guess it is not a surprise if I say that I know how much better my trades are! Next? Better exit! yeee, more money! I already started to look for a tiny better exit but now getting a better image of my entries, it is much easier to put 'something' in place for a better exit, ... 'something' because currently I have a few choices to go with. No rush!

What about bigger volume? ... aaa, yes!
Of course, some top entries will start to have bigger volume. Bigger volume is usually an ingredient for a successful trading failure, therefore I should pick only those olimpic entries for the better entries. In fact, I already do it since the start! I have two main setups (almost, not really sure but not important) unchanged since the start and them are seen together, one has bigger volume.

Attached an image:
- usdcad shows the better entry, one of them.
- gbpcad - a better exit, more than I looked for - the market was also generous with me this time, hopefully not a teaser for a failure catch cause it will get disappointed.

Sometime I get flight delay compensation, today I might not, it is tight.

A few extra:
- Last Friday, a broker that I use had ~1h client connection outage. No issues for me, no open trades at that time but I followed-up the incident for more details. I received today the confirmation that only the clients could not connect, the trading servers were connected with the liquidity providers. Currently I don't have a precise stop loss in place, but I start to rethink on applying one, a relaxed one, a smart one, to act like a back-up ... the only requirement: the broker must know about it.
- I had no mood yesterday to wire the money to Alpari, probably I will do it next week. I have several views for this pamm trading, I will write more when will be live.
- Darwinex - all time profit but currently loosing something, I need a little more experience to have the darwin created.
- Recovery X - not forgotten, not very active trading.

The gate changed a few times, started with a floor level ping pong, now is on the same floor but the other side of the airport. What is the hint? ... I should restart some sport activities, running - boring, wishing for bad weather works, not because I wish for it but it is more country specific ...

Hopefully I will land on the planned airport and not on one from another city as it already happened.

Slow start of the week, small month ... most of the money were made in a day. Not a financial issue, and to make more, beside a few manual trades, yesterday I restarted to look more into the other method I want to add in my trading. The main algorithm I wrote a month ago, but then I had a dd to deal with, no mood ... and so on, ... hopefully I will set it live soon.

Today is pizza day, tomorrow bad weather because I plan to run, sold eurchf @ 1.1945

I sent some money today, to wife ... looking to buy holiday, is like going in a negative balance on a fixi like account. Expensive life, it is amazing how money come and go, no credits.
No running, bad weather, too hot, still time to change mind. Anyway, all takes few minutes, ending all after a few steps. (I have experience, already ended two half marathons).
I was saying that I sent some money ... nothing to Alpari. Well, no big deal to send a few k, it takes less than a minute, but somehow I am so so in going in that direction.

Today's trading:
- Axi account - gbp news - no trades! what? ... EA disabled (enabled after, all fine), hm! Was is good? Was it bad? let's see.
- ICM account - no issues, 210e or 1.17% ... (yesterday it made <1e).
- Fixi account ... well, still some opened trades. What? .. I saw it, and, why my trades are not closed? I was asking myself! ... not to put the blame on something, not a pleased situation! ... I do miracles, being profitable for more than a day ... anyway, is fine!

This axi, fixi, ... are a long term acc, but since it is a start-up, maybe a too soon start-up, I don't set strict rules to follow, more like some numbers in mind to respect ... +/- on a %dd. In the end, it might be that my trading is not matching a founding profile. I am fine with that. It is important to have my capital protected, the main goal, ... so that I could open a new trade ... too humble, ... so that I could enjoy life as I like.

A month ago I was saying that I loose more and more the interest in this place, ... some temp topics attracted attention.

I made public the fixi/axi accounts, maybe back to privacy and serve the main scope quietly ... since the same setups are used, is interesting to compare the trades - when there are a few and not 100s.

Fixi ... I am not proud of the dd, really, ... as I was seeing the trades at start-up, not taking about <100e loss at that time, ... gbpaud remain the biggest looser, be being at 1.8344, took today about 100e loss closing at 1.8334 ... gbpaud made it to 1.835x ... and then ... thanks for waiting me be to out! ... and maybe a new episode where I went in just before the drop, selling 1 lot? it is part of a different story.

About 3 years ago a black swan, eurchf, passionate by physics managed to make teleportation work, arrived in a unknown place, made a promise: to go back to the home land. Now that it found home, will it do it again?

I like my silence, ... trading is sometime good, sometime bad, will be fine in the end as always.
Apart from some manual trading, I mostly watched some pairs behavior to create a setup for my future trading, I call it: scalping in slow motion. Great ideas in the morning, busted in the evening ... keep on going, today gbp move consolidate a new scalping approach on my entries, ... the very first should be small, like testing fishing bait, ... combined also with a better entry on the extra trades - a thing that I don't like/do because mt4 is not friendly with smart code ...
Since most of the issues I got so far were from the CAD , usually because the retrace on big move is non existent, I am thinking to take it out ...
I just noticed a new ignore, ... what to say: I got a smile. I don't like to go in polemics with anybody.

There is something else more important to say, I will put it in a new post, for a hint: I should start looking to buy a monitor, or two ...

In my 20's when I was studying computer science I was dreaming to be on a boat, mostly for the benefits that this career gives: interesting money while on boat, lot of free time when at home. I even subscribed to the Maritim University to follow this career ... but plans changed.
My dreams come true in a way, the bad part: away from family.

Part time trader for the start? or directly full time trader? ... one will be quite soon. Not dreamer ideas, to be rich from trading - even if it will be at one moment, more a life choice to take.

Now I could easily be a part time trader, in a way already doing it ... but I can't cover the EU/London time when most of the things happen. Part time trader not in the sense of time allocation, I can easily be available all the other sessions, I sleep very little during the week, but nothing happens at that time.

As I was saying above, I should buy 1/2 monitors ... don't really know what to go after, probably dell, 24/27, not 4k - I think ... not so straightforward to decide since most of my trading is done via mobile, not even laptop, a very good one, dell xps 15.

i like that entry idea about a smaller bait, and subsequent better entries. it might just work for scalping

my simple 2 x 27inch fullHD ( no 4K!) Acer serve my needs well enough for manual scalping. i sure prefer the feel of it vs. mobile or tablet, that is definitely only used for backup reasons or if really crave some trading while on holiday ( i know, i know, but does happen once in a while).

yes, especially for automatic trading, today a very good example, gbp fall directly about >70/100pips ... but hard to get the bottom of such spike as it moves in invisible tiny steps, system entering maybe after 40/50 pips ... a bait is great in such case.

thanks for the info! (reader test? lol, ... already saw it in your journal!).

Unusual for me to be at this time around, ... my Friday meeting outcome was that I should take a final test, like passing an interview, before I go into this. On 11th of May there will be 10 years since I left on a similar road.
Many events plays with my mind, I am not really sure the direction to take.

I will have several free days in the coming two weeks, I will do more trading, fresh new account or existing ones - not yet decided.

Final test - two weeks trading? ... is done! ... or maybe not.
Conclusion?
I find reward motivation at 1 lot trading, made on average maybe 1k/day, maybe a little more, mainly manual trading. I also had moments with huge dd all over my accounts.

I had in mind to enable the TE for all the accounts, no longer sure if I want to do it, maybe in the future. The main reason is that a simple show of any $ profit will not tell the story that I lived during this time.
And again, many events play my mind ... I think I developed a premonition for what is going to happen, but for eg. I can't do anything to fix the bad parts ... is very weird what I experience, too many coincidences, maybe too much.

What is next?
Since my main concern is the big dd that I had at certain moments, I was thinking to try to trade safe, low %dd, in the next two weeks or better one month. I am not convinced that I could do it ...
Then how to proceed? I will bring some toys to help my trading:
- the scalping system, almost totally disabled during this two weeks. Good decision I think, for eg. today eurcad on the spike had almost no pullback. Same with other pairs, and could noticed several similar events lately.
- scalping in slow motion, looking for pullbacks after longer moves having some angles ... still have to define some setups.
I will set it to trade small at first entries, better extra entries later and here the 'better' should be really better in the sense that the system should detect that no pullback happened lately or very tiny ones before entering, take out losing trades to prevent carrying them for too long ... not all ready from the start.

I still have open trades, I will keep on trading manually too.

Once I said to myself that when I will make x$ in a day I must go in a deep thinking over what I am doing. Nothing special to think about, the concept was important, I will know when will happen.
If I look at my accounts TE, I am over that x$, but it is not real as is not showing $ from closed trades.
If I look at myfxbook, I am still missing a 25%, low chances to do it, swans might be sleeping.

This morning I was thinking why not selling the scalping system? or other EA's? I could do it via mql4 even if paying a %comm, they manage all, set a few TE's, do a little code optimization/clean-up, ... why not? Later in the day the idea started to loose interest, mostly I think because is not perfect - had a few incidents that generate ugly dd because I didn't wanted to cut the losses, or I was risking too much ... I could cover this aspects with some options. I don't know. I think I will go for it, I don't know when, now I don't feel motivated, have manual trading in my head and a few other things, in my mind this idea is growing. I have to invent of a price for it.

Now that I trade more than usual, I don't know if I want to keep on going but somehow trading fits in my future plans.

I am fine, a little tired, a little more, last two weeks I made my trips by car, almost 4k km. Sometime it goes quick, sometime takes forever, luckily the gps finds me ways to get away with less delay. Last week on the return trip at one moment a huge ambuteiaj was transformed in a highway parking with overnight camping ... drivers went to sleep. I managed to escape and once back on track, no car was coming, they were still slipping. Last Sunday the gps arrival time was spiking as pairs on news.

Now I still have 3h driving to home, hopefully I will be at 6 am at home. I usually don't take brakes. I stopped to write this post and eat something, because if I don't write it now I will not do it when I arrive in my other universe. I might change mind once there, take it out, don't know, will see.
As said last week, a simple show of the account $ profit will not tell the story that I lived ... I show the accounts now, more profit than last week, and it will be more next week, and more and more because I will be making a lot of money. Something changed, some very old plans re-activated in me, hopefully I will follow them.

I don't look to impress somebody or whatever. I make money, I have my issues, I think I traded better this week. As profit, this week I made almost 20k over all the 5 accounts, I still have trades open. Sometime I tell to myself that I am tired, I no longer want to do it, I feel fresh few seconds after, somehow I find the energy to keep on going.
In short for the accounts (I did not study much the stats, only some global values, I might not be too acurate on numbers):
believe - up to a little before this month I was loosing in there constantly 5-7k. I made them back plus another 14k where about 3k is currenty in dd.
darwinex - I have two old shorts on eurnzd, somehow it doesn't bother me. The darwin was created: TDT (TheDreamTeam).
testing, fixi, axi - none of them survived in not having manual trades.
All accounts are profitable, I don't expect to go to the supermarket and my money be refused because I made them in a: high risk trading, grid, martingale, whatever.

All accounts TE public, myfxbook too.

But as said, the numbers don't say the story that I lived.
Something short: The trades made on Tuesday on eurtry, gbptry, usdtry in believe and testing account gave one of the most painful experience I ever had while trading ... I really don't know how much money I made on them, couldn't look ... the day was the most profitable. Wednesday I think was the second as profit, profit made as on the any other day.
There are many stories in those accounts, I will write some of them, I have to find the right mood. I also hope to write my future plans, it is not the first attempt, is not so easy ...

I will end it here, hopefully I will arrive without troubles at home.

A week ago I was selling 2lot eurtry, 2lot usdtry, 1lot gbptry ... painful experience, ended very profitable, 4895 eur. It was painful because I was too heavy in, 1lot representing 10lot on other pairs ... so I was 50 times more in than usual. I sort of knew it, had a few hundreds profit on early times, decided to let it go ... and bang, 1k down, 2k down ... I literally saw all the hard work washed out, ... I had chances to cut some trades and take small loss, I simply couldn't.
Then, I received the go to lunch call, 10 min before the usual time ... I went out and let the trades. When lunch ended, looked at the trades, I saw some blue numbers and closed those positions without thinking.
Now new all time high, but every day is almost a new all time high ... currently not touching it, not even with a 0.01 lot.

I change something this week, my diet.
It all started maybe half year ago when I changed my drink, pepsi instead of coca cola, some less chocolate (or not). Then I noticed that I perform better.
This week I started the keto diet, high fat, low-carb - cut them all. Last days I was hit by the side effects of the diet: headache, dizziness, drowsiness ... I think that I feel better now, I should be better in the next days as now my body switches mode to be fat adapted.
How is the food? great! I can eat avocado all day, fish, meet, butter ... yammy.
No more chocolate? No more ....? not like that, the beginning is strict and after combine - like trading, scalping with swing trading.
Today I think it came down to my trading, less mood to take trades, took trades at other levels than initially had in mind, I did not recognize myself. Compare to last week, this week I made more $ if I exclude the xTRY trades. I still have trades open.
Why I am doing this diet?
While my body will change mode and will be fat adapted, will start to consume fat, will take out all the weak cells, it will keep the best of me in me, be at the best performance all time.
Also, I see it as a gadget, like when I started to use tracking apps for running. To lose a few kg, but not really an issue.

Fly soon, no more ice-cream today.