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Developed a semi-martingale strategy in weekend (up to a fixed limit of 4x initial leverage) to do well in deeply mean reverting trends. Intend to use it on TRY if I see that upwards momentum (reversal in really long term sense) might continue. Again, being long TRY is nice as long as carry...

@OP: Don't do it. Take the advice of gaussian's reply. Just posting to reaffirm this. The stock market is designed to make the average person a winner (long term), the opposite is true for retail forex.

Can't make enough money out of those 100 USD accounts doubling every month to buy a new car. 8)

Btw start of US eq session would have been nice to participate in but had more important business with my GF... Hoping for a volatile September.

Currently I've been quite interested in TRY/JPY after studying the recent spike and others like this, and I might enter a trade on that next weeks. Mostly because I've expected the spike to clear away some systematic risk. TRY must show it will at the least not start trending downwards again...

^So, very simple strategy: Long XAG short XCU in equal amounts. Aside from being a good strategy for a couple of months look back, what I am trying to capture is A) my belief that the market is eventually going down along with macro without being short index (as equities seem determined to...

Set up a long XAG short XCU pair trade (about 2x acc trade size) this night, posting details later.

lol enjoy your Martingale while it lasts.

The same thing would probably be almost similarly profitable with most major currencies as shorts given the high yield of TRY. JPY just becomes the currency of choice to be short given it has the lowest yield. Carrying TRY when it has been trending lower for years takes some balls. :D But it...

Two failed trades: Buy NAS100USD x 8 @ 7392 stop 7376 Sell NAS100USD x -8 @ 7372 stop 7386 Didn't have a particular conviction other than it's likely to trend from here. Miniscule bets. Of course, probably miscalibrated (over) trading mood so quitting for tonight. Edit: Analyzing my thought...

Certainly, I can't keep up with his reversals! Maybe it would be more accurate to say he has no position /sarcasm.

Trump massively weakens his position by letting the whole world know his mind without filtering. (Nothing new admittedly, this was just another great example.)

Pussied out on triggered short for +30, interfering with dinner.

Fishing some NQ with trigger orders at 7527 and 7477 long/short respectively.

Closed +100 from train

Sell HK33HKD @ -15 @ 25659 stop 25876 Manual short on HK33 that I can leave on for today, <400/1% risk.

Ok, +0.6% on first pos. Then stopped on 2nd and 3rd pos while monitoring, at size 2x and 5.5x as large respectively as first. Second was not moved to breakeven and incurred a loss larger than win on first pos... So need to make sure all positions are sized according to volatility that sized...

Activated NQ short algo (very slow reaction due to multitask) It's taking very small positions due to high vol so comfortably leaving unmonitored.

Also lol Trump

Well had to multitask this day too as it happens. No sufficiently persisting trend for that and market seems to be hesitating. Doesn't take too much imagination to see a top here (but on the other hand, without confirmation, this kind of chart reading is BS) so sitting out until next week unless...