Recent content by blackthursday

Because I'm stupid. I 'used' to go long and short throughout the day, no matter the general trend, went long and it dropped, didn't have a stop in place, thought I would ride it out......stupid mistake based on an irrational desire not to lose a few £s.

Well looks like I learned the hard way too! Almost a carbon copy of the OP. I too started trading Crude Oil futures, and though it was easy money made £2k from an initial investment of £2k in little over a month. I also got greedy and didn't use stops and started pumping funds in. Went long on...