Tuesday / December 10, 2019 / 9:00 p.m. PST
As Christmas approaches and I withdraw funds from my OANDA account for purchasing gifts, I am reevaluating this strategy of trading through a customary Forex broker.
I am still unwilling to trade via NADEX given that the risk-to-reward ratios which result from the way they have things set up are totally ridiculous from my point of view, but I have found that there seem to be more binary option outfits elsewhere that will accept tiny opening accounts than there were in the past. Out of the lot, the only two I would consider using were OlympTrade and Binary (which used to be called BetOnMarkets).
Binary is better regulated, and I still have a demo account with them from when I used to live in the United Arab Emirates, so I made a few practice trades to get back into the swing of things. (They closed my live account when I moved back to the USA.)
I found that it was not all that difficult to trade profitably, and unlike OANDA, where I can only make two or three trades with an account size of $200, at Binary I could make ten simultaneous trades (if I chose to do so) with an account size of just $10. (Yes, I understand I would be risking 10% of my total capital with each trade as opposed to the 1% maximum that conventional risk/money management demands—but at the end of the day, a buck is still little more than chump change.)
Moreover, whereas a 0.01-Lot scalp might yield 25ȼ trading with a traditional Forex broker, my smallest $1 trade through Binary was 65ȼ, and my largest was 99ȼ. I made $4.00 after trading just a couple of hours (yes, that’s way under minimum wage) which means it is far below what I could manage if I traded all day long, and far above the $1.80 per day that served as the starting point for this little “1.8% Profit per Day Compounded over 220 Days” escapade from two years ago.
And finally, though “everyone” equates trading using one-minute charts with trading “noise,” I fiercely disagree with this view; and with the proprietary tools I now have at my disposal, I believe I can use binary options and one-minute charts to pull money out of the market all day long (especially after improving on the 71% success rate managed above).
However, since I cannot trade binary options in the USA (other than with NADEX) I cannot take advantage of this ability, and have therefore hooked up with a partner in Europe who will be executing all the trades in my stead.
One way or another, I am absolutely determined to take a small amount of seed capital and grow it exponentially into a substantial repository of wealth.