Yo Traders!
My name’s Sharkey, I’m based out of Stockholm in Sweden, and I just quit my day job in construction to trade full-time!
Started out trading stock index futures and CFDs but have now settled on FX, especially the GBP/JPY as there is plenty nice intraday moves during European market hours. Piptastic!
My style is Five Animals Naked FX, on the 5 min charts. Using only candlestick kung-fu and moving average-jitsu I hope to master the ancient art of Pip Procurement-Do (ok that’s enough).
I have been reading books and paper-trading on and off for many years now, during 2013 this passing interest became a burning desire to break free and “work” for myself.
I have a $10,000 trading account and hope to average $200 a day profit by taking with-trend swing trades and scalping the tops and bottoms of trading ranges. I risk no more than $200 per trade (2%). Once this has been shown to be profitable I will invest $10,000 more, then work on increasing my position sizes (currently one standard lot).
My first full-time week was last week and I took out $600 at the end of the week. Today I was actually up ±$900 at one point until a monster pullback ran my stop and left me running for the hills crying like a little girl with a “meagre” $330 profit for the day. All in all a good start to my fledgeling day trading career.
Looking forward to seeing what I can learn from you guys!
Peace out,
Sharkey