Recent content by Crazycod

Holy crap you have balls of steel. Well done neke. I for one am rooting for you man. Keep it going. I know you are going to have up and down months ( and so do you I'm sure), but your ability to keep rising from the canvas is admirable.

Wait what? you have to pay taxes on money you lose? Holeee Sheeeet Batman

In my experience - don't bother with the mentoring. If they are asking you for the "shortcuts" already most likely they are not prepared to put in the hard yards. I speak from experience. 2 examples. 1) My brother - has seen me trade successfully over the years and started dabbling in forex...

About a 55% return for the year. A really wild ride though. Hit my low in June when I had a total drawdown of about 50% after some very bad/revenge trading in Copper futures. I was adamant that copper was going down hard and started shorting in May. Initial success got me more confident and I...

I guess the short answer is that it depends on your trading plan. For me my reasoning for placement of trailing stops and initial stops are the same. I believe that if a trade is going to move, then it should move quite quickly. So I use the 60 minute charts to place my stops under the most...

My thoughts would be that 10 days is a very short time to have experienced the full roller coaster ride that is the markets. However if you have a system that is profitable and you are keen to take up trading as a full time pursuit then I would say go for it. Open up a small account that you...

To me instability would mean a flight to the Japanese Yen. I still don't fully understand why this is so but the yen seems to be a refuge in times of uncertainty. Disclosure : long the yen March contract

Good luck neke. I always log in to read your results at the end of the week and I find myself always comparing your results with mine. I hope that you will achieve all your goals for 2011 and more.

Twelve month return of 83.38%. Best month was May 38.47%. Worst month was October -17.11%. Good year but more to work on this year especially in reducing the drawdowns and not trying to hit a home run with every trade.