lawrence-lugar
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peti305
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As the titled wanted to say, it is happening right now!
thank you, will do 😎
peti305
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Freedom
At the starting of this month, I've quit my job, withdrew some of my profits and started to make a decent living. I am going to withdraw some profit after each month from now, and I will never have to work for money again. The dream I was working so hard finally came true!!
Stay tuned... November is also in profit.
At the starting of this month, I've quit my job, withdrew some of my profits and started to make a decent living. I am going to withdraw some profit after each month from now, and I will never have to work for money again. The dream I was working so hard finally came true!!
Stay tuned... November is also in profit.
peti305
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This month I made a profit of +10%, up to $65.837.
After it I asked for a withdrawal of $6.000 and because of the withdrawal I lost my bonus, $9.487. But that's not a problem now 🙂
After it a made +18% profit, up to $59.664
So my total profit this month is +30% ( I multiplied +10% and +18% because I always use compound interest )
Balance is at $59.664
Tons of news ahead before Christmas time!!
After it I asked for a withdrawal of $6.000 and because of the withdrawal I lost my bonus, $9.487. But that's not a problem now 🙂
After it a made +18% profit, up to $59.664
So my total profit this month is +30% ( I multiplied +10% and +18% because I always use compound interest )
Balance is at $59.664
Tons of news ahead before Christmas time!!
Either way, turning $1500 into $59 815.00 in less than a year and a half is pretty impressive!!
MichaelJohnFX
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I've just come across this thread. Just wanted to say well done and to keep up the fantastic work. I can imagine this thread inspiring a lot of people.
Forexmospherian
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All the best for 2016
Now that you are full time I am sure you are 100% committed with your endeavour.
Taking approx. $90k to $250k ( just half your goal) would be a great achievement for 2016 - its gets psychologically more difficult now ( increased stake size and larger losses possible ) but so far its not been an issue with you - so hope you can stay "unemotionally" attached to all your new trades
GL
Regards
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peti305
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Actually, I experienced some psychological problem just before reaching $50K.
I literally started shaking when I entered into a few of my trades, because I started to realize I am risking a lot of money now.
I successfully defeated it by started to think that this is not my money.
I invested $1,500 and my money is $1,500 in this. And even if I lose half of my account, its not going to hurt me because of it.
Thats why everybody says never risk more than you can afford to lose.
No, sorry.
Forexmospherian
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That's good if you got yourself sorted out - I had same problem in 2009 and have since never been able to trade above 25 lots + a pip. Nowadays I stay well under 10 lots - mainly because I am over 60 yrs old and don't want to stress myself with palpitations and sweats etc etc- using my onw funds
It took me approx. 6 months to feel comfortable again - and so 1 to 3 lots easy - 5 to 10 lots - stress - so only when I am above my daily weekly targets and if I tried 20+ lots - I reckon I would then start worrying about my own money and of course I would not have my mindset in a proper trading zone - I would just make more mistakes.
If you start getting it again over $120k and say over 20 lots or whatever - just ease back and keep reminding yourself that its worked for over 2 years etc - and losses are just part of the overheads of trading profitably
GL
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lawrence-lugar
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I know what you mean by stress/palpitations 😱 ...I'm nowhere near as old as you, but I still experienced palitations when I first started trading...and that was when I only saw gains/losses of only $100.
Trading can be stressful indeed, it's important you learn to control or cope with that stress.
reminds me of the movie Trading Places 1983...in the end.,..when the Duke brothers lost everything, one of them had a heart attack.
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This is exactly what I am doing.
I am not only reminding myself that its worked for 2 years, but its worked in my backtest for another 10.
After entering a trade I usually go away from the computer. I don't even care if I will win or lose a specific trade because I know that statistics are on my side.
Always think about the big picture, and I think you can be stress free too.
You should try it 😎
That is the confidence that a well thought out and backtested trade plan (that you make and do yourself) gives you.
Out of interest, how do you go about your backtesting? And how long has it taken you to build this strategy and test it/find profitability?
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I inspected each main curreny pair's behavior after each news events. I tried to find some connection between them, and set up rules to trade them with profit.
If I couldn't generate profit, I threw it away, and started over.
It took me around 2-3years (part time) to build up my current system.
I tried to keep it as simple as possible, and that's why it is far from perfect, but I like the results enough so I decided to not develop it further...yet.
