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
Read Full StorySo 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..
Read Full StorySo 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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City AM published their list of the top 40 people who work in the hedge fund industry under 40. You can read the whole thing by downloading the City AM article here: http://www.cityam.com/issue/2011-05-16 A lot of these guys are in their early 30s and doing so well... I'm in the same age group and I guess it makes me feel kinda inadequate! Anyway, for your reading, check the link or here's the cutting from the newspaper.
It was another good day on the markets.. it's funny how you get periods when your systems don't seem to work at all and then when they work, everything works nicely. A big part of that is because the markets are always changing... the go from trending to non-trading, from trending up to trending down. Most systems work for a particular type of market... it's difficult to find a system which works across all of the markets volatile personalities. Anyway, I had two trades on the GBPUSD today...
The pivots today were all very significant in trading today.. if you look at the blue pivot line in the charts below for all trade instruments (GBPUSD, EURUSD and FTSE), you can see how the price action reacted to the pivot line. With the GBPUSD chart you can see how the market bouced off the pivot line at around 8am... shortly after this I went long which wasn't a good trade as I ended up with -20 as the market went down. However, on hitting the pivot again, you could see that it provided no
