June $620 ( I did add $160) and not sure if I had included $ 120 that I had taken out - anyway, looking at my records I am pretty much flat for the month. Mainly because of ONE day - no, not BEXIT, the Thursday before. It was a brilliant day - pretty much just got stuck in gold - mainly bullish. My calls where spot on and by 6 o'clock or so i was up $150 or so - so percentage wise, a massive day - never had much at risk ether the whole day.
I was trying to stay out of the market for the rest of the day, telling myself I had done so well - just try keep it. But then I noticed gold had pulled back a bit, ok - just a little wager, for a bit of fun. Pulled back a bit more, ok - another little bet. Slowly it pulled back, and I kept place these small bets. Then bang, a big pull back. Suddenly I am $100 down - do I pull out? Take the loss - but still leave the day on a respectable $50 up? The price is now a bit range bound - so i start closing out positions at a loss whenever there is a small bullish thrust. Had about 15 or so (only $2 each, but 500-1 leverage so about $15000) close around 5 and keep hoping the bull market picks up. bang, another massive fall - and now it just keeps falling.
Now down around $200 - and when it pause put on some stop losses - and begged for the price to rise. But only paused for a few minutes before running though my S/L's. Feel slightly sick. Down $250. Then I try win some of it back and lost another $50. Eish. felt pretty sh&tty. I seem to be on repeat.
I had started the account with $200 and then had taken $240 off the table as well as putting an extra $160 into the account. So started the next day with $483 - that was two weeks ago - up to $620 and up $260 overall - should be way higher if I wasn't such an idiot at times
have decide this is that this is the last bucks I am putting into this - so all up it has been R15000. I would be doing so much better if I could avoid the blowouts - but not 100% sure if I am programmed that way. I really enjoy this though - can happily do this from 06H00 to 20H00 every day. Anyway, onwards and upwards - think I am getting slightly better - but still early days I guess.
I do wonder how often (bad) days traders go through laptops - this laptop is on it's 9th life!