The long and short journal
My name is Chris and yes... I am an Anonymous Unprofitable Trader.
This is going to be my efforts to change: anonymousand unprofitablewhich hopefully will lead to being a trader.
The past
I've been trying to learn how to trade for almost a year now. I've been through signal providers, forex systems, forums, magic websites with analysis, twitter, chat rooms, various different brokers because they want to rob me, stop hunting because they knew and all of that resulting in 2 almost fully blown accounts:
1st account
2ns account
Current situation
I do have full time IT job (software development) and I used to develop some strategies and indicators in MT (hopefully with time I can contribute to NT ones). Having a full time job makes it trickier to learn how to trade but takes the mental pressure off. As I'm in London I usually trade FDAX/GER30 (sometimes currencies) London open and 30-40 mins after that, then one of the VMs I have on my work machine has NT, MT and many other installed for me to look at the markets, do some sim trading as I've stopped live until I learn more and regain the confidence in my methods.
Immediate plans
TBC
The dream
TBC
Trading plan
TBC
unfortunately preparing past accounts charts was really time consuming (and mentally painful, especially those 2 massive lost trades - ~1500 in total!! :faint: if only I could go back in time and slap myself - just wondering what future me (in 2015) would slap present me for ;) probably a lot of things and not starting this journal much earlier...)
I will continue "tomorrow" as in later with plans, my goal/dreams and current trading plan as it stands now - no excuses, take it like a man, grow up and be thankful for any advise.