Today the balance reached $9550, but then one profitable trade and the day turned out to be breakeven.
gold went down tremendously. There was absolutely no way to predict that. in fact, bonds and index futures hardly moved and that was a very very strange event. one way is when you shorted gold with multi lots, you would have close some positions as price move in your favor. but hold on to one lot for many many many hours to capture this tremendous movement (but we wouldn't know it might happen). we don't know the real true reason why gold dropped so much. I don't trust what the news reporters say.
Today, my balance fell below $9500. I was not able to fulfill the conditions of the Practice Session. I think the reason is excessive emotions and flaws in my trading method. In general, there is still work to do.