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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    Which part of the statement do you want to see? I trade exclusively EUR.USD pair. I am planning to describe my trades in detail from the very beginning in coming days. Examples of bad trades I made: on May NFP release I bought EUR after its spike but then it went down and I lost. When the...
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    This is the proof that I am serious Shit.. I did not know I paid 1.4k in commissions to IB
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    A little info about myself I am a 35 years old cis-gender straight man born and raised in a poor Third World country. I did well academically in high school and got scholarship to study at a prestigious European university. After graduation I worked in management consulting, then got MBA from a...
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    But I am serious. Check my first post on this forum.
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    I quit my job for other reasons. When I quit my job, I had no intention of becoming a trader. I had never been involved with trading in my life. Moreover, I had always thought that day trading was stupid. I decided to try day trading after some period of soul searching and deliberation about...
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    I was inspired by his audacity. The audacity of hope. Also, almost all successful traders on this forum blew their accounts in the beginning. Blowing account seems to be some kind of rite of passage for trading career, so I figured the sooner I do it the faster I become a successful trader.
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    No, I am not a troll, not at all. If my words sound funny, that might be because English is not my native language.
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    Turning $15K credit card debt into financial freedom

    I was inspired to start this journal by this thread: Took out a loan to transition to full-time trading. 24 years old. The poor guy did not make it. I hope I will. I maxed out my credit cards (36% APR) and started day trading forex with $15K stake. After three weeks of trading I am down to...
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    Negative interest rate (IB)

    Sorry for the stupid question, but I need some urgent help. I am a total novice. So, I have had a long position in EUR (200,000) overnight and got a message from IB that I will be charged a negative interest rate, which something like 1% or more. What does it mean? Does it mean I will be...
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