How did you guys do when you first started trading?
*i meant when you started trading your own money, probably not the right section but anyways...
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when you first start trading, it's usually eecuting someone else's orders. everyone makes mistakes, just never make the same mistake twice.
haha, sorry. i meant when you personally started trading with your own money
Lost a 100 bucks on amd and bought Gm hours before it went bankrupt -.-....
Needless to say, I was 18 and didn't know much..It's a year later now and my portfolio is doing 34%, I'm pleased.
Started with many months of demo trading before going live. As time passes the money becomes less and less real...which is a good thing. Filter out emotion and just get it done.
Agree with JSinNOLA, the emotional component must be taken out.
Almost blew myself up in a little more than a month trading fx. I have learned a lot since then and Im almost at breakeven right now. This is over the previous 7 months. I demo traded for a while but nothing beats live.
Does anyone know any good online simulations for trading ? The ones I know of have too much limitations.
thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade is solid
Started at a prop trading firm, where I still am, so was not trading my own capital the first few months. Had a pretty sick run during the first 9 months on the job, but recently I have had a few teeth knocked out and seem to be learning some lessons which I did not find applicable earlier /been on the job for 18 months now/.
Overall, my PnL curve is weird as fuck - depicts Everest in a sense...
Shortly after coming back from deployment... I was 21 at the time. My friend told me about stocks, didn't know a thing about it. He told me I can make big bucks. So I got into penny stocks and I lost like $300.00. I thought this was straight gambling. So I got into learning the technical aspects of it, went to a bunch of seminars and my dad gave me confidence and lend me $500 and I lost that, haha. He wasn't really bummed because we have money. So I had about $10k saved up from the military, joined a prop firm. I lost $3K of my deposit, then I contributed $2K lost that. I put another $2K and I lost that, as well. I literally got up from my computer and balled my eyes out in the hallway. I remember I got home around 10:30 am after being closed out for the day and my mom told me "So how much money did you lose today?"... I was embarrassed. I remember walking up to my trading manager and I told him not to lose confidence in me. I gave him my last $3K and after 18 months, I made $180,000. I paid for my school and I gave my parents money to pay their mortgage. The firm was bust shortly afterward. I joined a prop desk at BNP Paribas as an intern, after that, I went to another prop firm. This firm closed down, as well. After that, I went to BlackRock to trade on their equities desk. Then I left that, I joined BNY Mellon and now I'm at BMO Capital Markets in NYC... Crazy how I joined finance after a buddy of mine told me about trading at my local gym... I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do with my life.
What allowed you to go from $3k to $180k in less than 2 years?
Inspiring story notheless!
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