How much have you made in a single trade?

shadowninja

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Ok let me explain the purpose of this thread. I am not interested in your average earnings now if you're successful. The following post is the reason for me thinking up this thread, so it's meant with tongue firmly lodged in cheek: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/382180-post1309.html

I mean, I am not going to include my very lucky trades back in the dotcom days when I made a penny or two... any idiot could make money back then, and I was one of them. Buy london-poo.com shares on IPO day and sell them the next day to become a millionaire. :D

Anyway, I'm talking about silly, clueless trades that you just would not do now that you've learnt how to trade.

I'll start.

Gold binaries. Made about £70 after risking my entire account of £150. Not bad, eh! That's a 50% increase in my account about 1 hour.





Then lost the lot a week later in about 30 seconds.

:whistling
 
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Long the e-mini S&Ps going into a Friday close. Instead of doing a Market-on-Close sell, I did a buy and doubled my account. Didn't realize it until Monday. :eek:

Fortunately, the market went my way and I pretty much doubled my account. Probably the only time I ever profited from an order entry error.
 
It was my first ever trade, Juniper networks £5/point made a profit of £640 had I held another day it would have been over £1000, totally clueless as to what I was doing, needless to say I lost the lot and what was in my IG account, yep cleaned out.

This was in the days before online dealing and no charting like they have now.

I was a "stupid boy pike"
 
I got legged up in an ill planned Eurodollar calendar spread scalp for 200cts i was trying to pull off over non-farm-payrolls a while back... i was down about $12k in a matter of seconds, before it came back just as quick while I was still trying to figure out what had gone wrong and filled me for a crappy half tick that didnt even cover the commissions for the trade.

Certainly not my best $$ value trade, but possibly my best skid-mark trade.
 
shadowninja said:
:-0

Just as well you didn't cut your losses. Hang on, that's not the right way to do things!
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I didnt really have time to cut any losses! :eek: The spread i'd put on consisted of ten legs, and I missed one in one of the front couple of months right on the number release.. it took me a few moments to figure out where i'd gone wrong, by which time I was already ten half ticks offside - i dont quite recall what had happened on the number but the market was chaos, and I was just thinking "sh!!!!t, that price cant be trading" and reaching for the mouse.. when price came back just as quick and gave me my price. The price i wanted being a "fat finger" anyway since i should have put it one price higher for a full tick...

the net result being I made $1250 from trade, but the broker made $1360 (200 lots x ten legs = 2000lots traded - all the gains from the trade and a bit more for lunch.

All I got was some gritty pants and a cold sweat! :whistling
 
When I was just starting out I was risking a gunslinging, crazy 10% of my account as my initial 1 R Risk that I would stand to lose when my stop loss got hit.

Having put on a trade with my customary - at the time - 10% as 1 R stop loss risk we went off on a short week long trip somewhere.

When we came back I saw that not only had I forgotten to put in a take profit in the rush and hassle of packing and everything, but that also my stop loss had been hit.

BUT...

before that happened, I had been up an amazing 24 R's in unfortunately unrealized paper profits...

LOL !
 
I just made £3.61 from a spread bet, although it will be a return of over 100% per annum when I close the account in six months time (when I include the £100 they gave me to start it)...

Drawdowns were about £27 though on a £200 deposit so I wouldn't recommend my "go randomly long or short" forex trading strategy.
 
arabianights said:
I just made £3.61 from a spread bet, although it will be a return of over 100% per annum when I close the account in six months time (when I include the £100 they gave me to start it)...

Drawdowns were about £27 though on a £200 deposit so I wouldn't recommend my "go randomly long or short" forex trading strategy.
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How did you get the free £100? I never see these deals!
 
shadowninja said:
How did you get the free £100? I never see these deals!
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I wanted to hedge some currency with CMC but decided I wouldn't (basically because hedging it would be bloody stupid, I made quite a bit over Christmas doing no trading at all just from having around 38k CHF) - they called me as part of the account opening procedure after I'd made that decision and I said I wasn't interested any more, then they made me the offer.

I may go short at £1pp EURCHF if it returns to 1.65, stop at about 1.665, with a long term view of getting out about 1.60, (and adding to the short on the way) or possibly take a view on some shares, but most likely I'll just sit for the six months they require you to before withdrawing the cash.

ETA: Looks like this offer is for everyone, see: CMC Markets > United Kingdom > £100 offer
 
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EUR 43,200 when a clown mispriced the eurostoxx at 09:32:26 on a Wednesday in June last year (sorry, I can't remember the date).
 
last year i went long in the dax for 10 eur per point, just took a short coffee outside, returned to office after a few minutes and was up 800 eur. my best one so far.
 
tornhill said:
last year i went long in the dax for 10 eur per point, just took a short coffee outside, returned to office after a few minutes and was up 800 eur. my best one so far.
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The Dax gives and takes :LOL:

A friend of mine went 5 mins to the bakery and so his breakfast costed around 15k :eek:

His comment: This time I wanted to make sure, that they don't wiggle me out, before I'm right :rolleyes:
 
tornhill said:
last year i went long in the dax for 10 eur per point, just took a short coffee outside, returned to office after a few minutes and was up 800 eur. my best one so far.
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The Dax gives and takes :LOL:

A friend of mine went 5 mins to the bakery and so his breakfast costed around 15k :eek:

His comment: This time I wanted to make sure, that they don't wiggle me out, before I'm right :rolleyes:
 
tornhill said:
last year i went long in the dax for 10 eur per point, just took a short coffee outside, returned to office after a few minutes and was up 800 eur. my best one so far.
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The Dax gives and takes :LOL:

A friend of mine went 5 mins to the bakery and so his breakfast costed around 15k :eek:

His comment: This time I wanted to make sure, that they don't wiggle me out, before I'm right :rolleyes:
 
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