March is flying by, and with that, Q1 is wrapping up!
The markets have been a wild ride lately—volatility has been off the charts, making it more important than ever to check in on those trading goals you set for the year. Are you crushing it, or have the recent market moves kept you from those profits? Either way, now’s the perfect time to reassess and recalibrate!
Because it’s been a while since our last one, let’s add a bit more excitement as we kick off our very first giveaway of 2025!
You know you missed these!
For this giveaway, we’re keeping it simple. All you have to do is answer the poll and let us know…
Were you profitable in Q1?
Whether you had a fantastic start or faced challenges, we want to hear how Q1 treated you!
Here’s how to qualify:
Choose your answer among the options below. This is so we know to include you in the giveaway pool of entries!
Share about your trading experience. Want more entries? Reply to this post and tell us how your trading went!
Have an avatar. If you’re camera shy, no need to worry! You don’t have to use your own photo. You can pick ANY photo other than the default letter that all anons get.
And just like that, you get the chance to be one of our lucky winners!
By the end of this giveaway, we will randomly pick 4 winners of Amazon gift cards, each worth $30.
Should you prefer it, we can even give you your prize in BTC!
The giveaway period starts today, April 02, 2025 and ends on April 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.
The prize will either be in an Amazon.com e-gift card or BTC crytpocurrency, which means we require the winners’ email addresses or crypto wallet addresses. Failure to respond with your information within 7 days will result in disqualification and selection of new winners.
Here’s the poll!
Rolling in profits! Q1 treated me well.
Just staying afloat! No big wins, no big losses…
Q1 was a learning experience… aka my wallet is crying!
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Good luck! We can’t wait to hear how your Q1 trading went!
I have had a “Better than I thought” first quarter. Currently running an 8-week experiment with a 5k real money account.
My strat is working great…as long as I can avoid the News…which isn’t as easy as it was over the past 4 years.
not doing too much. I’m still getting familiarized with all that is forex-related so I’ve been taking it easy so far. better keep my money safe for when I actually know what I’m doing.
As usual not every trader is making money from the market, but the Q1 is different. I mean am down in a losing streak on the prop firm account I’ve been trying to make money from since last year. BTC almost finished my money, it keep dropping while I was buying hopping it will keep going up this year. Well the next phase might be good
Q1 was up and down especially Jan. Managed to close the Quarter green, however. I had significant drawdown in Jan, but stayed consistent to my rules and my strategy managed to recover in Feb and March was basically flat.
First time commenting ever. As a complete noob, I only have a very small account. Not much experience trading demo nor live yet but I already started live trading XAUUSD around the 3rd week of March 2025. Won around 3.5% my first day (beginner’s luck ), but then arrogance got the better of me which made me lose about 75% of my account the next two days due to impatience, arrogance, overconfidence, and general lack of knowledge about what I’m doing
I believe I would not have experienced that 70% drawdown had I just waited for some time before closing my trades OR at least used stoplosses not manual closing OR studied a lot first and used demo before doing live OR had better risk management and mindset/psychology. But I was in for a rude awakening, I realized that the market can really eat you alive and burn your accounts if you let it, so before completely burning my small account I decided to stop live trading for a few days. Then, I got back into it with a better mindset & psychology and better risk management. And now I recovered much of my original account/deposit, and I’m now just down 25% of my initial deposit (coming from that initial 75% drawdown). Still beginner’s luck, I know, and I know that it’s a small feat but I still consider that a huge win for me. What a rollercoaster ride these past few weeks have been
I know I’m just almost gambling at this point, but I’m eager to really learn from babypips and from you all great guys and gals, and create a system of my own that will be consistently profitable, slow and steady, and with better risk management. Hoping for a good and profitable year for all of us! Cheers
Well i flip from currency to commodities,more risky assets buti feel more confortably cause there is more movement and there is ONLY some hours ina day to tarde…not like currency…i don’t Chase trades where they is not like currencies made me feel…so i switched totally by mid february …
I do swing trades SO is Even more relaxing and i don’t have to stick to the screen
I FOUND at least the assets to work with…My gains improve not Big cause is the beggining with but a CUT LOSSES quickly…and doing 1 maximum 3 trades per week 10 to12%my profits…SO far so good
I have not been profitable this quarter but i also have not faced any huge loss like before i am slowly steping up my trading strategy and also learning from my mistake i no longer look for sniper entry i focus more on a good risk to reward
It’s been majorly a learning experience for me. I started journalling my grades more this quarter and stepped down a bit from risking live capital; this is because I want to get my job/business income up a bit to reduce the pressure of having to make money from trading. To a reasonable extent, I know I have got my technicals sorted, it’s now all about diligent and consistent work on my psychology coupled with appropriate risk management… These I know will bring my desired success in the markets
Grinding through Phase 1 on my $10K account—had some ups and downs but kept risk in check. A few losses set me back, but solid wins brought me back on track. Staying patient, following the plan, and almost at the finish line!
I’ve been away for a while. Just come by as a regular reader, most times spent on Google news.
Just coming back from trading break. So it’s safe to say am afloat. No big loss, no big win.
By the end of January, my bots had made a profit of +7.61%. But then a leader of a country with his erratic behaviour caused my bots to make a loss of -6.79%. By the end of Q1 they had recovered slightly to +0.89%. So I can say that I neither gained nor lost anything in Q1.
In the beginning, I thought I was doing well. I was winning most of my trades, despite having relatively small position sizes. But more recently, I’ve been in a losing streak so I feel like I just returned the wins I got in the earlier part of the year. I hope Q2 will be better for all of us though!
I had a profitable quarter. One of my better quarters. Took 213 trades. Padding the account with some wins. Feels great. Market volatility has been crazy the last couple weeks, and even though I was profitable, I have a bunch of losing trades I’m still sitting in, but still think they will come around. Patience is my lesson right now!
), but then arrogance got the better of me which made me lose about 75% of my account the next two days due to impatience, arrogance, overconfidence, and general lack of knowledge about what I’m doing 
