$1000 into $522,200 in 8 days?! Is this possible?

Yes!

Just give your $$$ to Hillary Clinton and she will work wonders, she did so well trading Commodities for the first time.

Makes Larry Williams look foolish. :D

Mac
 
Quote from ckrieger1:

I recently read an ebook by someone who started with $1000 and turned it into $522,200 in 8 days and 154 trades trading the Thai Baht against the dollar. He also turned $50,000 into $1,138,358.59 in 3 consecutive hours trading the Swedish Kroner against the dollar. This was all using virtual money but this seems very incredible and unbelievable to me. Does anyone know if this is really possible? I am skeptical by nature so I still don't really believe it can be done. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't really know anything at all about how the Kroner and Baht are traded profitably. I saw on one site the spread for the Kroner was 100 pips so it must not be a very liquid currency.

I think that in the currency market you get like 100:1 leverage so he was able to trade $100,000 worth of currency with only $1,000 deposit. I suppose we could look back at the historical chart prices to determine if that was possible....i think i'll do that!

But if the guy traded currency futures, I think that is quite possible (assuming the same leverage....this assumption may be wrong though).
 
Quote from pspr:

I once attended a charity casino night where you get a few play dollars to gamble with at their games for your donation. I wiped them out! Closed down all the 21 tables and proceeded to win all the play money they had at every game. Finally after everyone was mad at me for closing down all the games, I bet it all against some trinket they offered me on a single hand of 21 and gave it back. It was fun being King for a while though but ashamed to use up all that luck on play money.

Wally:mad:

Well, at least it went to a good cause....
 
It´s seems you never play in Argentina. One day u$s1=$1 , a month later u$s1=$3,50. Very profitable if you don't live here.....
 
I doubt that he have been able to convert 1000 in 522k$ in 8 days, unless to spot something as Argentina currency (very exceptional). The most Forex brokers offer few currency pair and usually only the most trading currency (about 7 or 9). These highly active currency will fluctuate only some percent in this time period and at 100:1 this will give about 300% in the best expectation, this is very far away from 522k$ ...
 
Probably the $1000 was just a very tiny portion of his capital. He took huge risks with it (hey its only $1000). And got lucky.
 
Quote from ckrieger1:

I recently read an ebook by someone who started with $1000 and turned it into $522,200 in 8 days and 154 trades trading the Thai Baht against the dollar. He also turned $50,000 into $1,138,358.59 in 3 consecutive hours trading the Swedish Kroner against the dollar. This was all using virtual money but this seems very incredible and unbelievable to me. Does anyone know if this is really possible? I am skeptical by nature so I still don't really believe it can be done. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't really know anything at all about how the Kroner and Baht are traded profitably. I saw on one site the spread for the Kroner was 100 pips so it must not be a very liquid currency.

better and a TRUE story is author/ hedge fund manager victor niederhoffer who went broke being long thai baht. he tried to pick a bottom during asian financial crisis of late 90's
 
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