The most memorable order ever!

For me there are more than couple,
which would always remain memorable for me for various reasons.
Often take multiple positions, in a small time gap, for a trade bias in a direction, so it would always be multiple trades for me.

But if have to choose one, would choose
EURCHF Longs in August 2011 (when peg rumours were galore)
- it was shortly before they enforced the 1.2 peg(dang i missed most of that MAIN move)
- Made 12583% on ~300$ acc (Profit of $37k+) increased equity by 125 times in 2 hours with 170 divided orders, one after another.
- It was more special as same account suffered a ~15k loss in the preceding retrace down from the initial pop of EURCHF from all time lows in early august

Posted details about that in a similar thread here --> http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...66#post4896466
What a lovely pair EURCHF was in those days.... ahhhh



P.S.
- In normal conventional trading type of mine, ofc there was no such event, ever
- Lately i took similarly big positions in USDJPY in its first spike down to 95(@95.20's(posted about those in another thread)), went to 99 generating huge %age of profits and now back to 100+ but not before taking another jab @ 95 and taking out my stops @ BE. I wanted to ride those for a long time. Anyway, they were not for me

Bypassed the whole trading demo process
Went live
Started to trade 1 and 2 lots with big leverage on small scalps
Sold 1 lot
never went into profit
Went to sleep
Wake up next day with account at zero
Live account lasted 2 weeks

It actually went to become a year low when i sold lol

Yeah) My best congratulations) It's wow. What strategy did you use?

Not my trade but it was quite memorable.

Hurricane Sandy hit october late last year. A friend of mine opened a long position on the EU the friday before. He figured NYC wasn't ready for a storm like this and after the market sees the destruction that the dollar would fall temporarily. This plus he saw some rejection around 2900 and his trading plan called it as a buy as well. He thought he had it in the bag. 10 lot trade mental stop and take profit. This coming from a guy who regularly trades 3 to 5 lots at a time. He had recently had a great run so he was really only trading the houses money and he was feeling a little over confident.
Long story short, sandy hits. Powers out, no internet, no phone. October 31st he gets access to the internet and sees price above 1.3000 before power cuts out again. He felt good about his trade puts it on the back burner in his mind. At this point he was all about making sure his family was ok.
November 13th. He calls me to inform me of the trade he made which is now around 260 pips in drawdown. This works out to around $26,000 way more than his recent run up. After about a good 10 or so seconds of silence all i could say is wow. There was all types of wrong with what he did and he knew it. While on the phone his wife walked in and asked him why he was crying. After that convo i hadn't had a chance to speak to him until 2 weeks later. To my surprise he was still in the trade. He did not close it. What was once 260 pips in drawdown was now at break even, he said he was going to hold it since it was going higher. Crazy guy.
Eventually it hit 3100, he felt great.
Then it hit 1.2900 and he decided to close it. It finally sunk in that he was trading a size larger than he was able to properly manage.
Whats messed up about it all is soon after he closed it price rallied up to 3300 retraced and then eventually hit 3700 earlier this year never to go back into drawdown.
He stopped trading after that. Withdrew all his money and hasn't seen a chart since. Said once he heals his scars (lol) he's going to give it another go.
Some things are meant be learned 1st hand and others are best learned vicariously. Unfortunately my friend got himself a 1st hand experience of what the market does with greed.