Quote from paul_alan:
LOL. I thought the same thing.
Spanish I like that little photoshopp thing you did with that ABM broker, lol. Although, I reckon that the posters who use them are genuine and you're maybe a bit jealous because they managed to keep their profits whereas you blew up 
Might be goot tho if you do get offered a job at futex. They will teach you about risk and stuff and it might turn you into a trader? (or not)
lol
Dw i wont even tell them im spanish! lol
Can i just ask why everyone keeps saying that ive ''blownup'' though??? :eek:
I havent 'blown my account'. lol
Even after taking so many boig losses as worst times this month, overall im still up over £2,000 since the start of December.
(Made £8,000profit in december, lost nearly £6k since the start of this year)
The only reason why im taking a break from trading is cos the amount of stress im putting myself under by trading with such low capital just isnt worth it,
when i can just get housing benefit for free instead.
And in regards to other traders who posted extremely big claims with their abm screenshots,
You can call me as paranoid or untrusting as you like, but im not stupid, and i know enough about human pyschology and nature to know that no-one;
Goes out of their way to quit their job in early october (the height of the econmic fear and panic when everyone else is terrifieid of losing their job),
has only £2,000 left in the world (2months living cost),
and decides to put all this in a spreadbetting account and risks all of it every trade every day for a few weeks atleast, convinced that they can afford to take this risk with their life just because they saw some random guy on an internet website forum making a few hundred quid per day from his account.
Then after barely 2weeks of doing this they decide to go on a luxury 2weeks holiday, as by now they are already rich and stable enough financially to be able to afford that sorta of lifestyle!!
And then over the next 10weeks that 2k that they started with has by now made them over £80,000 profit, in just 10weeks!!!
:eek:
Yet unlike every single other human, instead of getting extremely overwhelmed by having such a ridiculously huge amount of money there,
they just take it all calmly in their stride and everyday they knock out a few thousand quid more while being asleep most days even!!
Im sorry but what can i say, if something smells extremely ridiculously fishy like that then i call it shit!
And i really really do hope i get the job at futex, as its just 5mins bus away from my flat...
I will be joining through the experienced trader route though, not as a 'trainee trader'! lol
(Ive said it so sooo many times but i will say it 1 final time,
i do have an extremely wide deep understandstanding about risk:reward ratios, the dangers of risking too much % of your capital in any 1 trade, and the downsides of holiding a losing trade for too long).
Just because i often trade with a very wide stoploss doesnt mean that im some sorta idiot who doenst understand the potential dangers of what im doing. lol
I honestly do,
and i dont like bing in a situation where my only viable option is to use very very big stoplosses.
But the reason why i have to trade using them from my personal trading account is because when you have extremely low capital but cant afford to 'not earn a double digit profit return on your capital each week',
taking lots of small losses would be the thing that will kill your account.
Since if you have 3k, need to make 1.5k per month, you realisticly need to trade at £3 per tick.
£3 per tick, 12ticks spread, risking the min 40ticks per trade= £120 loss per trade.
You get chopped out 5trades in a row, not unlikely at all when your under pressure trade and the market is as choppy as it is at the moment,
you will have lost £480.
So you would then have just £2,500 left, and will have to now earn £2,000 profit from that to just break even when you withdraw from your capital at the end of the month.
You have a few more small losses even and your then gna be even deeper in shit, and every single trade you take for a loss will cause even more stress and pressure on you.
(especially if after you get stopped out the market reverses in what would have been your favour).
However if you say 'ok im either gna make it and buildup capital to a level where i can actually live without constant fear, or im just gna lose it all fast and get it over with',
you wait for a good entry after a big big move in 1direction, enter on the reversal formation at £3 per tick, $5s stoploss, target maybe $1s t $2s, maybe more if you trail it with stoploss...
You will then either get totally fucked and have 1 trade left in you,
or you will make it maybe 15 t 20x, so have built up to a more decent amount of capital from which you can then start trading with less fear,
and maybe will then even have builtup enough to be able to use a tight stoploss...
