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My recent performance... should I look for a trader job?

  • #1
  • First Post: Aug 30, 2012 3:58pm Aug 30, 2012 3:58pm
Hello friends,

I think I am doing reasonably well nowadays and my equity curve is steady upwards.

Please have a look at my detailed trades.

If I can maintain this performence in long term, is there a chance I get hired by a broker house?

Anybody here had any experience trading on behalf of a broker house?

Cheers.
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  • #2
  • Aug 30, 2012 4:44pm Aug 30, 2012 4:44pm
Unless you're talking about dealing desk brokers who trade with their customers and cheat them, brokers do not trade.

Brokers broker trades between willing buyers and willing sellers, hence the word "broker".

I think you mean if you can get hired by a "trading house" etc etc.

By the way, if you can make money for yourself, why work for anyone else?

Just curious.
I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm not in the "convincing" business.
  • #3
  • Aug 30, 2012 5:44pm Aug 30, 2012 5:44pm
Quoting skenobi
Unless you're talking about dealing desk brokers who trade with their customers and cheat them, brokers do not trade.

Brokers broker trades between willing buyers and willing sellers, hence the word "broker".

I think you mean if you can get hired by a "trading house" etc etc.

By the way, if you can make money for yourself, why work for anyone else?

Just curious.
Could be capital issue I guess...
  • #4
  • Aug 30, 2012 6:47pm Aug 30, 2012 6:47pm
you won't get a trader job unless your a quant.
you could maintain live performance and convince some prop situations to throw money at you, or start a fund with other people's money.
  • #5
  • Aug 30, 2012 8:22pm Aug 30, 2012 8:22pm
Quoting Benjnia-fx
Could be capital issue I guess...
Yup....without a good capital base there is no point wasting energy on trading.

Building capital slowly from trading activity is not possible anymore. I spent 8 years learning trading.

I know people around the world are just sitting on money.

If I can help grow their money then why can't I expect to manage their fund?

Bur the question is where to find them?
  • #6
  • Aug 30, 2012 8:34pm Aug 30, 2012 8:34pm
Quoting antariks
Yup....without a good capital base there is no point wasting energy on trading.

Building capital slowly from trading activity is not possible anymore. I spent 8 years learning trading.

I know people around the world are just sitting on money.

If I can help grow their money then why can't I expect to manage their fund?

Bur the question is where to find them?
Maybe you can publish a live trading account on Forex Factory's Trade Explorer and let other people judge you for themselves.

Before you can get those people who "are just sitting on money" to trust you with their money, I suggest you try to get your relatives and friends to invest in you first.

And only then you will find out if you have the balls to face your investors when (not if) you encounter losing streaks.

Nothing wrong with having losing streaks, of course. All systems have them.

But trading with your own money is nothing compared to trading with Other People's Money.

The feeling is different. Your attitude towards risk automatically changes (whether you realize it or not) when you switch from trading your own capital to trading for other people.
I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm not in the "convincing" business.
  • #7
  • Last Post: Aug 30, 2012 9:15pm Aug 30, 2012 9:15pm
Quoting skenobi
Maybe you can publish a live trading account on Forex Factory's Trade Explorer and let other people judge you for themselves.

Before you can get those people who "are just sitting on money" to trust you with their money, I suggest you try to get your relatives and friends to invest in you first.

And only then you will find out if you have the balls to face your investors when (not if) you encounter losing streaks.

Nothing wrong with having losing streaks, of course. All systems have them.

But trading with your own money is nothing compared...

Fully agree
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