Recent content by MattyDee

Fair point and one I'll take on. Thank you.

Excel spreadsheets. Humongous some of them! I look for patterns but only execute if other (less clearly objective) fundamentals are in place too. Guess I'm 80% chartist and 20% analyst.

I went down to 4.8k in the first couple weeks, so I guess the answer to your question is 200GBP. I anticipated it could have dropped to 4.5k so that was in line with my expectation. The 5k capital is a real sum, put aside in case I lose it all -- but it's a nominal amount. I'm just being very...

I think so. Currently I'm working with the daily prices of FTSE100 and S&P during the three year period 2010/2013, which I've extracted from Yahoo Finance. I'd like to see how the prices moved during the day to see if I can refine my trading pattern and male better use of closing out positions...

Guys, (Male and female 'guys', that is). BACKGROUND: ----------------- Happily I've been trading since the new year -- FTSE100 and S&P mainly -- and not yet lost my shirt. Or anybody else's. On an average of 3 trades per day I'm up just over 500 GBP on an initial funding capital of 5k GBP...