What's the largest pips you've ever made in a single trade?

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First off, Merry Christmas to all!

Since it is the major festive and holiday period I thought it might be fun just to have a post that does nothing but just for fun and maybe AWE.

It’d be nice to see what was the maximum pips you’ve ever won in a single trade in your trading history. Even though this is for fun let’s try to make it meaningful by putting in details like the pair, long or short, entry and exit date and time as well as if it’s a demo or live account.

It’s alright if you do not know the details just the number of pips won will do as well.

If you want to, what I’ve done was to export my MT4 details into a CSV file and did an Excel sort by the amount. If you use MyFXBook it’s even easier as you can sort by the pips value directly on screen as well.

So to start the ball rolling here I go :

Account : Demo
Currency Pair : EUR/USD
Entry date and time : 5/12/2011 18:02(GMT +3 I think)
Exit date and time : 6/12/2011 03:40(GMT +3 I think)
Position : Short
Pips made : 102.4

[B]Update :[/B]
Account : Live
Currency Pair : DAX30
Entry date and time : 30/12/2011 11:36(GMT +3 I think)
Exit date and time : 30/12/2011 12:54(GMT +3 I think)
Position : Long
Pips made : [B]2850[/B]! LOL! :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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Largest I ever made (if I recall correctly) was on a eur/aud long a while ago… just over 300 (like, 307 or something).

It’s been a long time…and only did it once. risk amount was tiny (for me)… I think I made about $400 on the trade all together, risking about $50 initially. I’ve had a few dozen trades hit 100 pips. probably close to 100 trades hit 100+.

I’ve had maybe 10-20 go 200…

but only one, the eur/aud long, ever hit 300. I’m pretty bad at holding trades though. The majority of my income is derived from what many would call “scalping”… so, this type of move is a real rarity for me in forex. (though I’m working to make it more commonplace)

By GREATEST TRADE EVER in terms of just sheer market movement was shorting silver at 48.05, the sunday (sunday in california) before it’s all time massive drop, and then getting short AGAIN at 47.20 on the pullback the next day.

I scaled out of both positions…but held some all the way down to 37.00

IN terms of raw percentage… I held it for over a 20% drop in value. and I thought THAT was great! little did I know that it still had another 10% left in it for that day before it hit the bottom! lol.

To bring this in terms of forex (for u guys who only know pips)… this would be like shorting eur/usd at 1.4200… and holding it until it hit around 1.1200…for a total move of about 3K pips.

Of course, silver did that in less than 48 hours… so i didn’t have to hold for months…just overnight :slight_smile:

Ok, so there’s my greatest moves ever. Anyone else catch some major tops/bottoms in some significant bubble bursting swings? Scotch… where did u sell eur/usd and finall cover at?

Jay

P.S. There is something to be said about raw volume of trades too however. It’s commonplace for me to have 250-400 trades a month in about 20 different markets all combined, in futures and in spot forex. That’s 3K - 4K trades a year (yes, my broker loves me). Given the sheer number of trades, and the fact that I’m looking to trade “counter trend” for many of my trades…it is not even a little surprising that I would catch some amazing tops and bottoms.

The only “suprising” thing here really is that I held the eur/aud trade for so long…nevermind the silver short. Rarely does someone get to hit a market for a 20% price change in just a few dozen hours of trading. In silver, it was just one of those times when every star lined up…and it resolved so fast that waiting wasn’t much of an issue!

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About 0.3 pips

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Golden is just better than me, my most was 0.2 pips, but thats rare and I find it difficult to do much better.

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Hmmmm… :slight_smile:

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It’s a good job your broker trades 1/10th pips! The Christmas aft noon boredom must be setting in for most… :slight_smile:

I was long when the SNB intervened a couple of months ago and I did not have a limit on the GBP/CHF… I don’t have the trade details to hand as I am on vacation.

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Now THATS a nice trade! I think it’s right up there with my silver short! kudos TCG.

did u have it the whole way up? or was your target pre-determined somewhere in the middle of the move?

Jay

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I have a long position on USD/CHF from 0.71 and still going…

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u win Alch. that takes the cake so far.

Jay

P.S. KNEW I shoulda held silver down to 27!

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Not me and it wasn’t just one trade… but over 23000 pips in one day is amazing

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Yunny…spot silver pips are not even close to the same as spot forex pips. Just for the record…my two shorts near the high, in terms of pips… were about 80%-100% as profitable as his longs.

don’t know his actual take profits…but, when i was in the trades, the numbers were very very similar

except it only took me less than 48 hours to make the pips… not 3 months :wink:

Jay

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100 to 200 pips per trade. Single trade per pair. Sometimes 4 to 6 trades or more per day all going at the same time. Thats off the daily time frame and sometimes weekly or monthly. It’s easy to get big pips off the daily / weekly / monthly trades. That was my favorite trade strategy and will still use it while learning other things. Sell tops and buy bottoms. :cool:

It’s important to keep in mind that the number of pips is not what matters most.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. I got probably a thousand pip trade on Usd/ZAR a few times just for fun because I don’t normally trade that pair. But heck on that one even the spread is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 pips !

oops typo… that’s zar not nzd duh

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Hi TalonD
You are joking right???
100 to 200 per trade, 4 to 6 trades per day?
I’m assuming you hold these trades overnight, otherwise thats a minimum of 400 pips per day!!!
I need to know what strategy you are using…I’ve seen you on ICT’s thread so how can you be making more than him…
Or are you just having fun with us because its Christmas?

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Ok, never mind, I guess you could make more pips than him, all depends on the value of the pip at the end of the day.
But still, I need to know what your strategy is, lol

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Like I said, number of pips is not the only thing. There is also trade size/ value per pip. I measure my progress by percent gain or loss not number of pips gain or loss. At times I’ve made a percent per day for weeks at a time but then there are times when I blow it by being careless and not having a well designed plan. Pick a pair that has a large daily range and sell near the high of the day or buy near the low of the day and see what happens. Yeah sometimes over night sometimes several days to hold a trade although lots of times a trade will close the same day because usually I only target half the daily range. Look at any daily chart. Notice that most days the high will be higher than the previous day’s low? And the low will be lower than the previous day’s high? That’s a high probability. But when I’m targeting anything from 50 to 100 pips or more, I also may have a 200 pip stop loss. So you want to know how I pick the high or low of the day as it’s happening? Well actually I think ICT has a better method of doing that with the OTE and other concepts.

I have a quick careless way of entering, I glance at a chart for a second or two and if it looks right I enter a trade. That’s why I’m following the ICT stuff and the Eremarket stuff because they have a much better thought out and planned out method. And that’s where I need a lot of improvement. Don’t do what I do, do what they do! :smiley:

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As a real newbie, i made 228 pips on a demo on the 23.12.11. My first 3 digit tp. Very proud. Now to turn that to a live account!!! That was on daily eur/usd (i think). Does everyone view it as “winning” pips.? Surely afyer studying so hard it should be “earning” pips…?

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Ooooooo… That’s Sswwweeeeeeeeettt!!!

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Ok thanks.
I kind of stopped paying attention when I read “200 pip” stop loss, LOL.
But hey, if it works for you then keep it going. You sound like you know what you are doing.
Cheers

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if it’s 200 pip stop loss and 200 pip take profit thats a 1:1 risk reward. Get over number of pips. it’s all about percent.

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Agreed, the pip count is absolutely meaningless, what if I had a 1 pip stop and a 5 pip take profit? It’s all about percent gain. Pip gain does not mean anything, unless you are working for a fund and getting paid commission per pip you earn. :slight_smile: