Recent content by DontKnow

I'm INTJ and I think it's amazing to see such a high percent of INTJ's are into trading. :cool:

Dinos. Thanks. I'll get the strategy sorted out. Tafita. I haven't been using anyone elses system, though I have looked at systems others use. I've just been developing my own, and getting a feel for the market and noticing patterns that form. I have been reading a lot, and still got a lot more...

Thanks. I just need come to terms with losing some and not let it affect me.

I didn't do back testing. Basically I'm just learning as I go along.

Yeah fear is a big part of it, and impatience. Gonna work on it some more. Thank you.

Usually 10ish, I was just trying to obey money managment rule of sticking to 1-2%. I lost a few times on the Yen pairs which have a minimum stop of 50. That took my balance down pretty fast. So I stopped trading Yen.

I guess the point of demoing for me is just to get more experience and perfect my system. I kinda rushed into live trading/betting, if I'm honest. I just kept making good trades on the demo and thinking this could be real money, but with the demo I had a $5000 balance, so I had room to let it...

I do appreciate it's difficult, I think just didn't realise it. Back to square one I guess. Stops were between 10-50, though that can bring the risk up to well over the 1-2%. Yes I was spread betting and the minimum goes up from 10p per pip to 20p then 50p. Seems like a nice little trap for...

I thought I knew what I was doing. Thought I understood everything. Did pretty well in the demos. Then I open an account with a few hundred and I keep getting stopped out. Almost every trade I'm getting stopped out. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is it simply that I started with a...