Quote from Gringinho:
Well, the best streaks I've had were 105 consecutive scalps on CME FX all being profitable in over a little more than 30 days, and once trading USD 50k into more than USD 200k in little over a week. In the last case I used a lot of leverage though - not exactly sound risk handling. I also traded with 50+ contracts later on CME FX, although results were somewhat choppy... and my tax return for years were several thousand pages, with the top being more than 7000 pages.
When the contracted period occurred with the EURUSD moving from 1.30ish down below 1.25 and 1.20, I stopped and rather moved my base currency on long trend strategies. I predicted there would be a long period of protracted sideways choppiness - and it was right, although I thought it would be bopping around 1.25 and not 1.20.
What kind of sizes are "3" , "5" etc on those spot trades, shouldn't there be like $300,000 with initial 300x gearing etc?
I've done 10x in a quarter in exotic options, but a lot larger stake.
"3" and "5" refer to 3x and 5x standard lots. So 300k and 500k units.

