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Trader Year-End Summary
Thanks very much for your advice. I understand I do have a really long way to go to become a really successful trader. The major issue to me is probably the risk management and emotions. I paid a lot of time in the past few years to study strategies and programming TA and back-testing and... -
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Trader Year-End Summary
Thanks, MaxDD is -5.4% I always keep average account value around $27,000.00. Here is my net p/l by months 01 3389.71 02 913.97 03 201.41 04 1441.05 05 1910.89 06 395.85 07 -411.77 08 583.40 09 475.18 10 1163.54 11 513.60 12 1256.04 Here the... -
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Trader Year-End Summary
I used to post daily on Trader P/L thread. I stopped posting there but still enjoyed reading the P/L thread occasionally. Instead I like to post all my daily trades in the past year here and also trading performance summary. Hope some other traders may follow me to post their year-end... -
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Mbtrading site navigator and site down!!!
just phoned them cos I could not cancel some of open orders. was told the equity server still down. they are working on the issue.- aqtrader
- Post #31
- Forum: Retail Brokers
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Mbtrading site navigator and site down!!!
no one answer the phone at mb- aqtrader
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- Forum: Retail Brokers
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Averaging down is addictive
If the price was not moving in favor of your trade after you doubled your position, say it moved the other way at the same magnitude. You will lose a lot. Do a simple math here. Assume you bought 1000 shares of XYZ, then it dropped $1, you lose was $4000.0. Then doubled the position. Now you had...- aqtrader
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- Forum: Strategy Building
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Whats is your YTD % return?
YTD 30% on 25000 account. 2848 trades, all on small trades to continue my experiment. trade size: 50 to 100 shares average trade cost: $2665.00 Gain $2.66 per trade after commision(so brokerage took about the same percentage). -
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trading maxim - 8 down days, 9th day up?
not worth discussing this issue due to only a few such cases happened in history. For DOW, since 1960. You get 34 such streaks with 16 down and 17 up on the ninth day. So it does not make any sense to follow such pattern. 19600720 -1.0001 -0.9868 -0.3170 -0.1250 -0.1711 -0.6728...- aqtrader
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- Forum: Technical Analysis
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Trader P/L 2006
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Trader P/L 2006
+23 1210 shares struggled. fighted back from down -$310. But the worst were terrible exit.