no you’re right, I just read through it quickly … took it as someone who was already posting created a troll account.
Now that I actually ‘read’ it, you might be right.
I apologize if it is someone legitimate.
Okay, back to the eur/gbp, aud/usd, eur/usd that is a rollar coaster ride.
Missed the jumps in US dollar tonight, hoping to catch the opposite on the reverse, so far so good.
you’ve gone quiet, have you had your first margin call already
No, went out to eat & a movie, Just got home, getting ready to trade in an hour or so, for about 3-5 hours.
but to answer your question, Nope, I brought my account upto 2,500 so that I can have a margin balance and trade a couple more lots per trade.
Made a few hundred pips so far, tomorrow will be 2 weeks for me about & still haven’t taken ‘losses’ or ‘not make profit’.
so at the rate it is going, I will have to lose over 30 straight trades {-10 pip limit on each} in order to cut even. But i am sure that some of the biased views here will be correct & I will go belly up in a matter of a few minutes.
Besides that, all is well.
keep up the good work soldier
technically not a soldier neither!
and please don’t tell me to keep up the good work, don’t need your compliments … !
After asking for help, you’ve objected so vehemently to all the contrary posts, one would have thought a pat on the back would have been a welcome admission.
But you object to that too.
Strange place this world can be…
Actually I ‘thanked’ all who did help me, i opposed all who basically said {and some literally said} …
‘you can’t make a profit …’
‘you can’t trade without … fill in the blank’
‘statistics show no one will win until I win!’
‘what are my statistics you ask? someone who knows someone who has been doing this for 30 years … and they said it happened … once … atleast that is what they heard …’
& my reply that you quoted above … you don’t have a good sense of sarcasm do you?
I can read…
I also understand the basic tenants of sarcasm…
The way I see it, you don’t understand the meaning of the word “help”, otherwise you would have wisely substituted it in your thread title, with something like:
“I have 3 months/all day/everyday YAY!!!”
or:
"I have 3 months/all day/everyday EUREKA!!!
or:
“I have 3 months/all day/everyday BONANZA!!!”
or:
“I have 3 months/all day/everyday AND I DON’T NEED A DAMN THING!!!”
People here generally DO want to help. And they try. You may not like their advice, and you may disregard it as such.
But conventional wisdom, and common table manners are to be gracious in some fashion even if you don’t like the helpings served…
You tend to have an attitude more akin to a three year old that just learned to tie their shoes. The resounding words “I CAN DO IT BY MYSELF!!!” sound loudly when any attempt to aid is given.
I’m not telling you you “can’t” in any fashion. Never did, never will. This gig will either be YOUR success, or YOUR failure. It is YOUR account, and none of my, nor anyone else’s business . But if you ask for help, it will come. And it will come in many forms, and ways you may not like.
But it was still offered.
You can be gracious, and still disregard. The terseness in your responses only serve to add fuel to a needless fire.
Happy trading!
If you gave actual advice, since it says ‘help’, then i would thank you.
But you are ironically replying to a thread that says ‘help’ with no help and then complaining about me NOT taking the help when you offered NO help.
Yes, YOU might not have said “can’t”, I did NOT say that YOU did, I said MANY did. and I also THANKED those who actually helped me by saying THANKS!
you are making this about YOU, assuming, keyword ASSUMING that I was talking about you. I don’t personally care about your replies if they were of no use to me.
The title says help, and i received help. For those who actually helped me, it was appreciated, for those who said ‘it can’t be done’, I didn’t appreciate it.
Don’t give me this 3 year old BS. At least take yourself off that pedestal.
Unfortunately forum’s on desensitize any human emotions … as you can’t see or hear anyone. But if you don’t care what is being asked, since this was technically ‘MY’ topic, then don’t reply. If I didn’t agree with you in MY topic of discussion, then go away … it’s to obvious you just want your voice heard. In which case …
here are a list of compliments for you or whoever is looking to prove themselves as ‘intellectual’. so please just pick a compliment and move on!
-You are sooo smart!
-I wish I level of intelligence you do!!
-How do you compose yourself … on such a PROFESSIONAL level!
-You are the best there ever was, if you can’t do it … I know I can’t!
-The way you articulate what you are saying is soo … impressive!
-I am soooo impressed!
-How can I be just like you?
-you are SOOOO wise!
/side note …
I wasn’t talking about my sarcasm, i was talking about the sarcasm of trav72 … DUH!
“You can be gracious, and still disregard. The terseness in your responses only serve to add fuel to a needless fire.”
didn’t read that part, you are WISE enough to say that … but aren’t wise enough to realize you are part of that NEEDLESS fire"???
I realize you were talking about Trav72…
I’ve been reading your exchanges on the boards. Not real pleasant there commando…
I have no ego, nothing to prove. Just want to see people get along.
And I DID offer you help, with no judgment other than a question of why you would open yourself up for criticism, then get huffy about it.
You’ve obviously got a chip on your shoulder. I don’t care enough to knock it off.
Carry on!
I would say ‘word to the wise’ but, you … obviously … already know of your infinite wisdom.
let me get this straight,
"Originally Posted by mj2009
technically not a soldier neither!
and please don’t tell me to keep up the good work, don’t need your compliments … !
Master Tang:After asking for help, you’ve objected so vehemently to all the contrary posts, one would have thought a pat on the back would have been a welcome admission.
But you object to that too.
you replied to my reply to sarcasm.
Trav72 was sarcastic, I replied to that & then you replied to me?
If you knew that Trav22 was being sarcastic, then why did you reply?
& nice work on following up on my posts AFTER this & not before {thanks post count, etc}.
Starting to think you aren’t as wise as you want to be, go to imdb.com & talk about movies, that is where the ‘elite’ & ‘intellectual’ hang.
Don’t reply if you don’t care to! you obviously care enough!!!
Easy now Mr.Goddard, I was pointing out that if you had tried to take a different tact with Trav72, maybe things would have settled down for you. I wasn’t replying to you with anything but good intentions.
I wish you luck! Life has a way of smoothing out those sticky outty things called egos;)
My point EXACTLY from the other post … Who are you to judge who has an ego?
& No, you thought Trav72 was being ‘serious’ and replied to me for not taking his compliments, plain & simple.
You don’t know anything about me, NOR what I thought. How presumptuous.
And it’s fairly apparent about the ego…
Enjoy your thread! Pretty soon, you’ll be the only one posting on it!
Aloha!
"and it’s fairly apparent about the ego …’
you don’t understand the question.
I didn’t say “do I have an ego” , I will say "i do’ to please you.
I asked “WHO ARE YOU” to judge?
No one would be posting on it tonight, if you wouldn’t have mistaken myself replying to a sarcastic comment for replying to a compliment.
Like I said, go to imdb.com, those are where the ‘elite’ hang and talk about Inception {I bet you understand the complexity of Inception!!!}
i didn’t think this would help you earlier mj2009, but in my opinion, i think you have a huge advantage over the average trader if you genuinely don’t care about losing money. that’s why people generally make money on demo and lose it with live accounts. nobody fears losing the play money but their own money…it stings your pride when you lose it.
so in short, i think you will keep making money as long as you don’t give a damn and just want to do this as a hobby. but my warning to you is that as soon as you start caring/worrying about losing you are going to take it in the teeth.
if you’ve got something that works, and it seems you do, do your best to figure out why it’s working and just keep doing it. be careful if you start thinking “this is easy” and start trying to do more. risking more as your account grows isn’t in that category, but if you notice you are taking trades you wouldnt have taken when you started, get on top of that quickly and you should be able to salvage the situation
i can tell you don’t like bs so i’ll try to keep my help bs-free from now on. you’re stubborn but that ain’t always bad in this business and everyone deserves respect here
Thanks for that, that is the best ‘advice’ so far in this.
We truly dont care about this money in this forex account more the you care about the .49 to go from ‘medium’ to ‘SUPER SIZE’.
That isn’t any offense, but this is our ‘disposable income’, and actually now that you mention it, I don’t think twice when making a trade I just ‘click’ & ‘hope for the best’ aka eat & play video games while watching the monitor every 30 seconds.
From reading the post, and not stereotyping her … yes I am actually … but it seems alot of the comments {not just in the forum, but everywhere} that refer to ‘you can’t make money’ are ones that are counting to count profits quarterly & annually.
You want to know how I count these profits ??
– "Oh S*&T, yesterday I had ‘enter amount here’, today I have ‘enter amount here + $103.37’ … LETS EAT!
Well just for everyone’s information, the new NFA & CTFC rules state that brokers have to report traders profitability. So MJ here are a few statistics for you.
Have a look:
US Forex brokers account profitability comparison | Forex Magnates
the numbers seem a little off to me, but thats my own opinion.
Thanks Cdawg, that’s interesting. Too bad my brokers not in there but that’s probably because they’re Canadian. I wonder why traders at Oanda are doing so much better…I may be switching brokers 
Maybe I’m missing something here. Private companies (brokers), forced to make public information about their clients. Are we really this far along now? I felt like I was invading their privacy looking at it just now.
…and yeah, I’m going to open an account with Oanda, haha.