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  • #41
  • Jul 3, 2012 10:59am Jul 3, 2012 10:59am
Almost a month later and i am -$33



In the beginning I was -$46, now -$33 and slowly improving.

I lost this money in the first 2-3 days, but have been keeping up as of late. I am winning more. Yesterday I only won ($3) !!

I am always learning, and this $130 live account is a very good experience. It's too different from demo account emotionally, I am scared of losing. What I am scared more is not doing it properly or not learning.
  • #42
  • Jul 3, 2012 1:41pm Jul 3, 2012 1:41pm
Started with $600, blown it in a week. Felt like a dick.
  • #43
  • Jul 3, 2012 3:07pm Jul 3, 2012 3:07pm
wanted to become a forex millionaire so I started with 5 millions. now I have only 1 million left. I have achieved my goal. I am a millionaire.
  • #44
  • Jul 3, 2012 9:13pm Jul 3, 2012 9:13pm
Quoting Mingary
wanted to become a forex millionaire so I started with 5 millions. now I have only 1 million left. I have achieved my goal. I am a millionaire.
lol you again

You must hate the market very much.
  • #45
  • Jul 4, 2012 3:20am Jul 4, 2012 3:20am
Quoting duyk20
lol you again

You must hate the market very much.
The bitch owes me 20 million.
  • #46
  • Jul 4, 2012 4:41am Jul 4, 2012 4:41am
Quoting Mingary
The bitch owes me 20 million.
Sorry to hear.
  • #47
  • Jul 4, 2012 12:44pm Jul 4, 2012 12:44pm
Started with $500 managed to get it to $700 and blew it up overnight. Big lesson learnt.

Started again with $100.. have a balance of around $250. Trading occassionally, mostly Gold/Silver and Crude oil at times. Its more like a part time trading account, but so far managed to keep my invested amount + the profits made so far.

Slow and steay wins the race, I suppose!!
Why is there so much "negative" news in the markets these days?
  • #48
  • Jul 4, 2012 3:12pm Jul 4, 2012 3:12pm
Started with 150$. After two weeks it was 250$, A week later - 50$...
Learned my lesson, stopped trading and went back to the drawing board.
Currently mixing Binary Options & Spot.
  • #49
  • Jul 5, 2012 12:38am Jul 5, 2012 12:38am
Quoting con771
What do seasoned/professional recommend as the min to start forex trading?
What did you start with and what were your limits
when i start in live trading i deposit only 150 bucks in my acc. gradually i increase my deposition. but i feel higher amount with proper mm gives higher opportunity to make Consistent profit.
  • #50
  • Jul 5, 2012 11:41am Jul 5, 2012 11:41am
Started with $1000 and was given $200 bonus by broker. Turned it to $1800 in one week but lost $800 in one trade when I was slapped with a 30 pip spread on a pending order during the American non farm employment release. To make matters worse the trade went against me to give another 20 pips of SL. All this happened in a second and learnt to always know when imprtant news breakes are taking place. I went on to reduce it further to about $490. It now stands at just over $550. I realised I did not have any trading system and I am just developing one now. I have been in forex for 3 months but did not give demo trading much time. I now know that fx trading is not easy at all especially if you are teaching your self everything!
  • #51
  • Jul 6, 2012 3:26am Jul 6, 2012 3:26am
looks like the most of us started with a couple of hundred, or around 1k and blew it in a couple of days/weeks.

hey, as long as we learned something...
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  • #52
  • Jul 6, 2012 5:17am Jul 6, 2012 5:17am
Quoting tc888
Hi karmostaji,

I just want to know, do you consider yourself a good trader? I've looked at your live stats, and they look horrible. It doesn't look like you have made money ever. Plus you have been trading for 5 years.

Is forex more of a hobby for you, a challenge which you want to conquer? And is the advice you giving to others on the forum based on your failures?
i just look at hit stat on ibfx connect and its awful
  • #53
  • Jul 6, 2012 7:29pm Jul 6, 2012 7:29pm
Quoting BBPI_fxtrader
looks like the most of us started with a couple of hundred, or around 1k and blew it in a couple of days/weeks.

hey, as long as we learned something...
Hopefully we all have..it's more like a initiation rite of passage, every newbie jumps on to the live account right away in the hopes of making $$$$$ in one day and gets to wipe out their account.
As a lesson, it's quite effective..hope we have all learned from that..
  • #54
  • Jul 13, 2012 4:51am Jul 13, 2012 4:51am
Just started with 600$ almost two weeks ago. Reaching 800$ at the moment. What do you say? Time for me to go like a boss, right?
  • #55
  • Jul 15, 2012 2:41pm Jul 15, 2012 2:41pm
Quoting con771
What do seasoned/professional recommend as the min to start forex trading?
What did you start with and what were your limits
Thats nice question .. honestly, i started as student without good financial background with my first 50 USD, i opened account with one of the worst broker, which offer 5 pips spread at EUR/USD .. i risked a lot and i have to say, its the best think, which could happen to me. I jumped into the forex without any experiences, traded 0.01 standard lot positions and worked very very hard, after 8 months i trade 2 - 5 standard lots regularly .. its true that i 3 times clean my account, but i trade with real money, real stress and real motivation.
  • #56
  • Jul 16, 2012 4:29am Jul 16, 2012 4:29am
Quoting price trader
Thats nice question .. honestly, i started as student without good financial background with my first 50 USD, i opened account with one of the worst broker, which offer 5 pips spread at EUR/USD .. i risked a lot and i have to say, its the best think, which could happen to me. I jumped into the forex without any experiences, traded 0.01 standard lot positions and worked very very hard, after 8 months i trade 2 - 5 standard lots regularly .. its true that i 3 times clean my account, but i trade with real money, real stress and real motivation.
Wow..good to hear that mate.
  • #57
  • Jul 26, 2012 4:40pm Jul 26, 2012 4:40pm
I started with 1000$ and added up to 10,000$ and more than 500,000$ demo accounts.
  • #58
  • Jul 26, 2012 5:35pm Jul 26, 2012 5:35pm
Started with $180, at Oanda, 4 years ago. Had good days, bad days, lost it because of greed, a lesson well learned.
  • #59
  • Jul 27, 2012 7:32pm Jul 27, 2012 7:32pm
started forex about a year and half ago without demo with $1,000.I don't even know what I did,but i managed to turn that into $8,000 in about 4 weeks.Then it started to go downhill from there...turned that $8000 to $1,200 in my 5th week..that is when i started to do demo..turn 100k to 950k in about a month,the 950k to $394.00 in a week...

what did I learn?I have the BALLS of steel...
  • #60
  • Jul 28, 2012 1:47am Jul 28, 2012 1:47am
10k in a forex.com account back in 2007.. Before that was just equities/futures since about 1995
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