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So here are the results of the 1 month trading in a live account where I am now as of Monday 18th November... scaling into with a $10k account. I made $1192.70 with a $1000 account, a 119% increase. We are using a highly leveraged account to achieve this but the drawdowns have been manageable..
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So the portfolio I’ve been running on a small live account has done really well, over 100% return running across 3 algos in the portfolio. Results are great and it’s times to capitalise which is why it’s time to scale up now.. my account doubled to $2000 and I’ve added another $8000 to make
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Actually, I did turn off my bot portfolio when I went to sleep and reactivated it again.. I had it running side by side a demo portfolio also and the demo portfolio returned 100% in the time I was asleep! Shame I didn't leave it runninng on my life account!
Still the two days of trading on the
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For those of you in the UK, I found this event which maybe of interest to you.... an opportunity to meet the original Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson. You read about these rogue traders in the news all the time with the recent one being the UBS guy, Kweku Adoboli and previous chap, Kerviel from Societe Generale.
Nick, however, was the original Rogue Trader losing over £800 million in 1995 and bankrupt Barings bank. He was sent to jail for 6 years in Singapore.
A film starrring Ewan McGreg
November 1, 2011
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Today was one of those days where I had a fabulous trade but didn't stick to the plan. I had looked at the market and had put in an order to sell with a stop and a limit order and then that should have been it, I should have left it.
Here's what happened..
This was the DOW and I saw weakness in the market and had set an order to sell at 12120 which was a break below short term support. I had a target at 11940 which would have been a 180 target. However, I couldn't help myself
October 31, 2011
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This is the fascinating 1987 documentary called Trader which features the legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones. I have been looking for this video for a while so when a friend of mine sent it into my inbox, I watched it straight away. I heard that Paul Tudor Jones himself was doing what he could to remove this video as it revealed a bit too much of his method so I don't know how long this video will be around but for now, enjoy it whilst you can.
http://vimeo.com/9881971
October 31, 2011
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