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So I mentioned that we scaled up to a 10k account and this always happens... after a good month of great results, my first day int he scaled account almost ended in a disaster. You can see the blue lines.. these were my long trades in the Dow today... I kept buying into the move down... I was h
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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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For those that haven’t come across Trading Psychology yet, this is something you need to know if you are to be successful at trading. It would take a whole book to give you an intro to it so I recommend reading a couple of books… Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas, anything by Van Tharp and Brett Steenbarger
For those that do know about Trading Psychology, you’ll remember that having the right Trading Psychology is 80% towards your success towards financial trading. Some people think i
October 24, 2013
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Following on from my article on the pinbars to trade, i thought it would be a useful to identify some pinbars which are not good to trade. Hopefully between that article and this one, you’ll get a better idea of what is defined as a good one to trade and what is a bad one and hence avoid.
Pinbar against a strong trend (unless its a Massive Move Pinbar - see http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/select-pinbars-trade/)
Sometimes you see a 1 day reversal in an underlying trend.. quite often this is
October 22, 2013
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A lot of my trades have been off pinbars. Pinbars are great in that they show where there was some strong buying or selling. This gives you a clue as to what may happen next so it could potentially be a good place to place a trade in the direction of the pinbar and a stop underneath the wick. I’m writing in the context of bullish pinbars here but the same is true for bearish pinbars.
All my trades with pinbars are off the Daily charts.. I don’t trade the intraday timeframes as I want more t
October 19, 2013
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