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Sold platinum @ 1623.00 Account Value 261k

Sold UsdJpy @ 76.192 Account Value 264k

Closed UsdCad with loss -10.5k Closed Wheat with profit 3.9k Account Value 277k

Closed Platinum with loss -3166 Bought Gold @ 1733.15 Account Value 278k

Closed UsdJpy with profit about 6400 Account Value 258k. Not very good.

Bought NASDAQ100 @ 2430.35 Bought Tnote10 @ 130.70 Bought Bund10 @ 138.61 Account Value 319k

Closed CAC40 with loss -5870 Closed Copper with loss -11916 It seems like long term trend is reversing on NASDAQ100. I will go long tomorrow, despite this being not confirmed by other indices. Account Value 314k

Closed AudUsd with loss -1722 Account Value 356k

Equity last 5 years, including commissions. 300% profit. Account Value 352k

I did some more testing to my system, including 2011. It wasn't a very good year for trend following. It turns out maximum drawdown was -62%. Only three times in history (40 years) drawdown was bigger: - 1980 / 07 -74%, profit next year +280% - 1992 / 06 -64%, profit next year +71% - 2005 /...

Sold corn @ 611.63 Account Value 359k

Sold AudUsd @ 1.0308 Account Value 353k

Sold eurgbp @ 0.82865 Account Value 337k

Closed audusd with loss about -1500k Account Value 337k

A few trades made during Christmas break. Closed FTSE100 with loss -1487 Sold eurusd @ 1.29391 Account Value 320k

Closed SP500 with loss -2774 Account Value 311k I think it's a new low for this journal.

It won't

Closed NASDAQ with loss -548 Account Value 329k

Closed DJIA with loss -1230 I've made some improvements to the system to help with chopping markets. Historical profit factor jumped from 2.6 to 3.1. Should help a lot. Account Value 332k

If IB doesn't do anything dodgy with money they should change the wording in their agreement. If they don't want to do that, it means they have something to hide. Also, if anyone here thinks that keeping as little money with them as margin requires is a good idea, should keep in mind that if...