It’s been a tough few days on the markets for me with confidence seemingly oozing out of every position I had open. I’m sure you can all imagine how close my finger has been to the close position button on all of my trades but, mostly, I somehow managed to hold on.
Trading Diary
September Trades Analysis
All of my trades opened in September have now been closed so this sounds like the perfect time to take a look back over the month and find out how much I made (or lost).
Why Don’t All My Trading Days End As Pleasantly As This One?
An excellent end to today’s trading is welcome relief from the murky depths of hopelessness I’ve been feeling over the last week. I was starting to wonder if I really could carry on the way things were and was even advised by a fellow trader to stop trading in a live account to help ease my lows.
100 Trades Into My Spreadbetting Career – How Am I Doing?
I’ve had a couple of bad days lately and have managed to dwindle my account balance even further. At this juncture, it makes absolute perfect sense to take a look back over my August trades (99 completed and 3 open) to see what went wrong. How many did I win, how many did I lose?
In Up To My Knees
Have you ever felt like you were doing well with your trades? Well enough to potentially max yourself out? Did it work out for you? My guess is that it probably didn’t. Despite being aware of this in the back of my head, I’ve gone and fallen into the same trap that many of you will have already experienced in the past.
My First Trade with My New System: W.H Smith
I’m sure you’ve had days like these. I’ve lost almost £500 in the last two days and I’m back to my original account deposit of £500. I’ve refined my trading rules and this afternoon I made my first trade in accordance with them. Did I make a good trade by opening a position on W.H Smith?
Starting Again With a £500 Opening Account Balance
So it’s been an eventful couple of weeks.
I deposited £500 at the end of July (2012) into my spreadbetting account with IG Index and in the space of two weeks, managed to trade and make a profit of £470, only to trade some more and lose all the profits to take me back to my original starting amount (+/- a few quid).
I’ve Blown All My Profits
If you thought that yesterday’s losing extravaganza would be enough to make me trade better, youd be completely wrong. Today, I’ve managed to blow all my remaining profits and am literally back to where I started.
Just When I Thought I was Doing OK: More Mistakes (and More Losses)
First published August 15th 2012
Before today (August 15th 2012), I was sitting on a handsome profit of £520.
I’d managed to accumulate this since 1st August and was feeling pretty good. A list of all the trades I made to get there can be found in my twitter account.
Today, however, I had a bad day that saw me lose almost 50% of my profits.
Mixed Bag of Results Today
Today was my son’s 1st birthday. We celebrated with a bit of a tea party with friends and family that started at about 5.30pm. But, before I could properly get into the mood, I had to check my sums for the day.