Month: February 2015

One was in for a treat if they invested in Apple a few months ago. Shares have skyrocketed and if you bought a substanstial amount of them earlier, you could have made enough for a nice holiday soon! But the truth, at least in my opinion, is that the only way is down for shares… Continue reading Why I would sell shares in Apple now

Contrarians have a brilliant reputation. Sometimes it seems as if they are the only ones that can make money trading the financial markets. But what people don’t see quite as much is that contrarians can be just as wildly, hilariously wrong as many a normal trader. In fact, I’m here to argue that they can… Continue reading Why the contrarian can be just as wrong as the crowd

I have made, in total, a 50% return on my investment, which I’m really quite proud of! During my journey of 5 days of trading, I have learnt quite a lot of things which could be applied to the next time that I trade, the first being the re-assertion, if you will, of the (sorry… Continue reading FINAL Trading Update: Progress Summary and what I have learnt

To be honest, I can’t write much here because not much went on. I closed one trade for a small loss, but that’s it, I guess. All I can really say is that the volatility of the financial markets astounds me every time. I have now made around a 40% return on my investment, which… Continue reading Trading update

My day was uneventful for the most part, but I saw quite a large gain in a matter of about 2 minutes. The trade I was talking about yesterday on EUR/USD closed at about 5pm today at a profit, after which I made several small trades getting me small gains. Until the picture above happened.… Continue reading Today’s trading update 🙂

Right now, I’m sitting with quite a large loss to my name on EUR/USD which I have traded on. Why, oh why, did I have to short it. 😦 The most important thing that I learned today was that losses are relative. I found myself feeling happy that my position was in quite a big… Continue reading Trading update for today

I wasn’t able to trade much today, as I had to go out with my friends. However, the Forex market treated me well today, and I have now made a 25% return on my investment within 3 hours! Hoping to make more tomorrow.