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Coders often like to think of themselves a ninjas – although it’s rare to find one with a ninja’s physique. In fairness though if you think of coding like a martial art where you're putting relative easy to understand techniques into place. Soon you'll be putting sequences together and you’ll...

So far today's been pretty good (overall fund up 18% to 41%) and I'm most of the way through my Trading Plan.

Hi Tim, I prefer to concentrate on percentages rather than monetary sums because it takes the emotion out of it... to some losing £20 is a horrific idea, other people wouldn't fret over £2m being wiped off their share price - it all depends on what size fund you're dealing with. I don't like...

Oooof, 70% is pretty rough! I have my stop set at 25 on the first FB trade as that's -22% and the more recent trade is set at -20%. It does feel a little like chasing, but I'd rather try these things at this stage and I'm not naive enough to think just because something has worked once or in the...

I'd definately agree that trading 50+% is suicidal... but as I'm shoe-string trading buying gold, platinum and many others end up like this - but they're really too hot for me. Equally 2-5% fund trades aren't really an option with my current fund. I'm very new to this, so I wasn't aware that...

Hi, I know "selling at a loss to free up capital" sounds bad and I was admitting to some of the rookie mistakes I've made, but when more than 50% is tied up in a more expensive commodity which aren't going your way and you see an opportunity, like buying Apple stock a couple of weeks ago (which...

So It's been just over a month since I started trading real money CFDs. Admittedly I've not ploughed my life savings into it, just some "learning money". I put more detail on interoduce yourself. This month I've made some silly impulsive moves, learned not to fret too much on commissions (I...

Even after making a few number of impulsive rookie mistakes, Oil swing trading's proving quite profitable.

Hands up... this was a very bad call and thank God for Stop-Losses!

Of course that should read foreign banks rather than just British banks.

Because the Americans want to tap dance on British banks' "asses". I believed that there had to be something tangible that they could point to, other than just being "anti-British". It's a single entity rather than multiple banks, and it's I.ran, man. The admittance now that they did break...

I suppose it depends whether you believe they were dodgy. I'm still not entirely convinced that even if proved innocent they'll recover a great deal... But that's just opinion.

Glad you agree as have my Limits spread pretty much bang in the middle of that after buying last week at 87. Steadily decreasing fluctuations between 89-99 in my short term crystal ball.

Hardly the tip of the century, but even after brief rally this afternoon surely it's going to go down some more... no?

Third time I've taken this and each time ENTJ. The only bit that I'd really say isn't me is the opening line: "I don't care to sit by the window on an airplane. If I can't control it, why look?"