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    Micro trading journal

    Interest: -$7.70 Corporate Actions (div reval): $0.65 WTI Cash: -$73.69 S&P 500 Cash: -$257.26 Total P/L: -$338.00 Monthly return -8.97%. Don't have many downs month for S&P 500, re-evaluating and continuing.
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    Micro trading journal

    Well, maybe a monthly will work better. Stats below: Interest: -$16.07 WTI Cash: $154.51 FTSE100 Cash: -$368.05 S&P 500 Cash: $82.20 Transocean: $940.13 Total P/L: $792.72 Monthly Return 26.65%. Obviously RIG was my saviour there, and that was way too risky. The journey continues.
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    Micro trading journal

    Unlikely to keep this updated on a daily basis so let's aim for weekly. Trading CFDs, almost exclusively S&P500 (cash, rather than ES-based), with a few dabbles into FTSE100, NZD pairs and oil. Around NZD3000 funded, few trades last week but still around $3k mark. Not sure of the etiquette on...
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    Blew up a $10k account, still interested. Am I too old/dumb/naive/in the wrong location?

    Actually a play on The Black Keys, of which I'm a big fan. AB's ain't bad though, wouldn't consider myself a fan on an NZ scale, but internationally I imagine that's what I'd fall under. Yeah such a rookie move getting focused on the end game. Just like in sport, you focus on getting the little...
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    Blew up a $10k account, still interested. Am I too old/dumb/naive/in the wrong location?

    Being a PM would be the long term goal I'd say, rather than just trading my own account. Big part of why I'm taking CFA at the moment as I'm hoping that will help me make the move over to buy side, or at least sell side research for a few years before landing a HF gig. Thing is there aren't...
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    Blew up a $10k account, still interested. Am I too old/dumb/naive/in the wrong location?

    I'll try to make this quick. Live in NZ so CFDs are a thing. Used to sim trade when I was younger which worked out quite well, moved that to a small account ($600) in third year at uni 2012, turned that into $1500 or so over the course of 9 months before summer came and I had to drain my account...
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