So it went smoothly fourteen years old since he started speculating on the exchange and over-the-counter markets. And, started right away thoroughly, and exactly from that moment, it became the only source of income. I know that for many it was not so — some try a couple of years on demo, either study something, on some courses, seminars, etc., then after draining the first deposit take a break, design trading systems, hang out on forums, arguing about the right trading methods to the point of hoarseness, then they enter the arena again with a symbolic deposit, drain again and either go to the factory, or rubbed into the near-market, share your experience and knowledge with beginners.
I had it differently, straight into the pool with your head, speculation to the fullest, reading books along the way, forums. Even at the very beginning, on demo forex, it was delayed for exactly a couple of days, deciding that everything has already been understood and it's time to move on to real money making.
The further development of events has already been described more than once, therefore I will not repeat myself. I will dwell only on the most significant losses, which happened over the years.
1) Forex 2005 year. After increasing the deposit twenty times, returned to starting point in a week. It is good that already at that time I realized that forex is not something that should be done and the main activity was already in American stocks..
2) Soybean and Corn Futures 2007 year. The cereals then grew a lot and I decided that I needed to cut them short., but did not calculate that the contracts are quite expensive and when the price went up, surprised at the losses. But he decided not to give up and added another to the short. But the cereals didn't stop and went even higher. In the end, ends, could not bear it and recorded a loss. My heart immediately felt better despite the colossal losses.. Abandoned futures for a long time. :)
3) Promotions 2007-2008 year. Watching stocks go up all this time, came to the conclusion that they should be bought long-term. For example, moving averages crossed up — Buy. Crossed down — close position. And it was necessary to ripen such a decision just at the very beginning of the bear market. All in all, closed the entire portfolio at a loss, and quite large, since the downward crossover of the moving averages was far behind the violent fall in prices. And this event instilled in me immunity and fear of long-term positions up to the middle 2016 of the year, when & quot; decided to repeat & quot;, but this time everything worked out well :)
4) Stock Hedge Index Futures. 2009 year. When in 2009 the year the market went up, no one believed that the restoration would be the letter V, not the letter W. I was among them, and therefore, expecting the second leg of the decline, I decided to short the SP-500 futures by the amount of volume, dedicated to stock trading. But there was no decline, and closed a huge loss on this futures at the end of September.
5) 2018 year. Largest Swing Loss on SP-500 Futures, which earlier from year to year brought the most stable profit of all systems.
Maybe I forgot something, but I still remember these. You can also add, albeit not big losses, since sometimes zero, sometimes a little profit, sometimes negative — it is simply exhausting trading of a futures portfolio with trend-following systems during periods 2011-2013 And 2016-2018 gg.
