A scary equity curve - what should I do now?

Quote from Player:

? Wasn't it "re-couped" when he reached 0% ?
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you're right - i wasn't paying attention - for some strange reason I was reading it like the -50%, have to make +100% to recoup losses, etc.....

My bad :o
 
Quote from Amnesiac:

Ok, this is the equity curve of my futures trading account. As you can see, I did some stupid things in the first half of the year, i.e. increase size while loosing.

So I just paused for a while and started again. I still trade the same futures (mainly ER2 and sometimes ES, YM, DAX). For some reason it's going a lot better now, although I obviously still overtrade.

Do you think I'm just lucky to trade an easy market at the moment? What's your opinion on this? I don't want to boast with this - I'm just worried, that I might get too confident.

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Seems like bs. Assuming you started off with 100k, you ran it down to 20k. Took two months off. Then ran it up to 140k in just weeks during the slowest period of the year.
Even if true, you seem way too overleveraged.
 
Quote from 99atlantic:

you're right - i wasn't paying attention - for some strange reason I was reading it like the -50%, have to make +100% to recoup losses, etc.....

My bad :o
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lol no worries, I was just a little confused :p
 
Quote from chewbacca:

Seems like bs. Assuming you started off with 100k, you ran it down to 20k. Took two months off. Then ran it up to 140k in just weeks during the slowest period of the year.
Even if true, you seem way too overleveraged.
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Probably more like 10K down to 2K then up to 14K.
 
Yes I think you are lucky. From your equity curve I would say you are trading positions about 10-20 times as large as you should be.

Also, given that you are inexperienced, then you should be trading *even smaller* than that (since you'll make loads of errors until you gain more experience).

So for example, if you are trading $50,000 positions, you should change to $3000 positions.

I predict you won't listen to this advice, and will learn the hard way.
 
apparently, this guys portfolio went up like 600% in less then 50 days. How many stocks/instruments is he trading? 1 or 2? HOW many stocks went up 600% in the same period?

Sounds like BS or massive leveraging.
 
Quote from HGTrader:

apparently, this guys portfolio went up like 600% in less then 50 days. How many stocks/instruments is he trading? 1 or 2? HOW many stocks went up 600% in the same period?

Sounds like BS or massive leveraging.
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He said futures, which implies the latter.

Fletch
 
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