Serious: Last year I turned my account from 25k to 150k. Now my account is down to 90k.

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Steven W, Mar 8, 2017.

  1. Visaria

    Visaria

    This is excellent and exactly how small traders should be trading. Keep going.
     
    #51     Mar 14, 2017
  2. Lol. When a trader destroys his account, apparently the right thing to do is to congratulate and encourage him.
     
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    #52     Mar 14, 2017
  3. phi

    phi

    This is obviously just an aside, but even though I'm not rich, I don't have much use for money. I mentioned before that I've withdrawn $58,000 recently, and all I have done with it is a couple of thousand in charitable donations and bought a watch for myself, and not a $5000 watch either. The rest is sitting in my savings account earning 1%. I like to have somewhat of a buffer that way, but $300k is neither enough to retire on, nor make a meaningful difference (once you have housing, food, transportation taken care of), so I choose to throw it at the markets instead.

    On a more serious note, is there one really good text on risk management to get me started? I don't want to spend weeks reading all kinds of books if there's people on here who have already done that and figured out what actually works.
     
    #53     Mar 14, 2017
  4. oh well.
     
    #54     Mar 14, 2017
  5. Telepuzik

    Telepuzik

    Don't have much use for money? Are you serious? It gets more and more surreal.

     
    #55     Mar 14, 2017
  6. Overnight

    Overnight

    I have one question for you @phi

    I am curious about this figure in your list...

    2016-Nov-08 53,207.93
    2016-Nov-09 89,054.65


    How did you turn a $36K profit in one day on an account balance of $53K?
     
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    #56     Mar 14, 2017
  7. The OP never reported these figures. It seems like every other poster in this thread is disoriented.
     
    #57     Mar 14, 2017
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  8. Overnight

    Overnight

    You are correct, reply edited to reflect a semblance of sanity here. (Teehee)
     
    #58     Mar 14, 2017
  9. Steven W

    Steven W

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    I am OP lol. These arent my gains. It's another poster
     
    #59     Mar 14, 2017
  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    lol, yes, it is edited! No worries! omg real-time editing can cause confusion.
     
    #60     Mar 14, 2017