Cashhy11:
Realone, Kozmicity et. al. Thanks for checking up on me. I was always here as guest reading the posts, just not commenting. How has trading been treating you guys? I saw Kozmicity pulling stunt, it was so good to see that.

Stunt ke?🤣 Na God oo.

Apparently whenever I make two posts here, I get banned for almost a week. I don't know if it's because I was too inactive.


Welcome back sah. How's Nigeria been treating you?

Q1 is over and this is my result. I am very happy with my progress.


It was a roller coaster of emotions for me but prayer and meditation really helped me get through it as I had to pay a lot of dues, house rent e.t.c. without putting pressure on the account. I am well on my way to hit my targets for the year. A new phone and a prop firm account are the main targets by the end of this quarter.

I also noticed that about 90% of mg trades have been longs. I read earlier in my trading career that one should not fall for picking a side when trading.(i.e don't wake up in the morning and decide to either be a bull or a bear, allow the market dictate to you what you should be) and I started to wonder why it seems like I am sticking with the bulls.
I knew that the markets are bullish, but what are the odds that I barely take any short trades so I fell for the trap and started looking for sells in overextended markets thinking my wins are a fluke and how will I cope when the market switches to sells? Will I even notice in time enough to avoid blowing my account?

And so I fell for the mistake of taking what could be for what is. I looked for shorts and sold🤣 I took 4 trades and 4 losses that day then I just turned off my data and went to play games. I didn't take it to heart because you win some and lose some, at least I didn't until I reviewed the trades... And they are exactly the same type of trades that blow my accounts every time because I have a fixed bias, it hits my SL, I refuse to ask myself questions as to why my SL was hit, I place some more trades, lose some more and I think you know how it goes from here😁

I was so pissed at myself I couldn't think happy thoughts. It happened at 1 pm, the anger came after the review by 4pm. I went to bed angry and deprived myself of food that night and the next day as punishment. I'm on guard now and I'll trade what the markets give me. My mind saw that I had no problems and went to create problems for me, I thank God though that I passed through unscathed. It's like I've been saying for a while now, "YOU SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE!"




Otherwise my trading was relatively good and I noticed two things; One, I don't consolidate after breaking into a major threshold. Let's say I hit $200 this week, I won't stay at $200 next week, I might take some losses and drop to $160 first then when I get into $200 threshold the second time, I stay there. This realization is what prompted me to make this second realization. Two, Just like NEPA, I get 2 week's on and 1 weeks off😁 though it's not consistent, I make profit for two weeks and I make a loss on the on the other week.



That's all about my Q1 as always I will welcome ideas from my bosses as regards to psychology, risk management, scaling the account, trade management e.t.c... Thank you for reading my long epistle.

Happy new month!!!

I woke up two hours too late and missed my premium setup on GA, since it's not too far from my H1 entry, I decided to still go in.


Nasdaq trade setup. Depends on the PA, I might the TP at the daily black line but it's very unlikely that I do. Us30 is similar to Nasdaq in PA, but I want things to develop a bit more before I post it.

Davigle:
Good afternoon and a happy merry crispy Easter Sunday, Well today marks the end of the first quarter of the year 2024. Reflecting on my performance from the beginning of the year, I'd say I started well, at least,it wasn't on a really bad footing but, I disappointedly ended the first quarter badly. Jan and Feb was really good but my trading performance was really poor in March. Now I am not writing this to complain or give excuses for my failure, this is just me owning up to my mistakes and taking full responsibility for my poor actions. at the start of March, I have been on a losing streak, my analysis were right but my trades were poorly executed. I have been studying and trading NFP and CPI for a while and I have had some success which made me overly confident when I should have been disciplined and cautious as always, in the end I had really big losses from trading the two news in March as I got burnt really bad which disqualified me from Fundednext march competition and send me deeper into draw down almost blowing up my 5ers 5k account. I became angry and I trade all through rest of the month breaking all my rules and discipline. But in the last two weeks, I had to sit myself up and get my shit together. some of the reasons for my misbehaviour were also due to desperation for money to resolve some issues in my family. I foolishly taught I could pull a fast one on the market but in the end the market nearly send me to sambisa forest 😭. I was really sad that I ended up tainting the good record that I was building from the beginning of the year. but las las na who give up Bleep up and I am not going to give up. So yes I bleeped up really bad and by God I am going to fix it and get that mullah... cheers mate

I also want to make a shout out to boss Gabsonfx2, pls sir, keep on inspiring us here with your discipline and payouts, I for one do not take it for granted sir. you are a role model and an inspiration to me. Also a very big shout out to boss infofirst, sir your presence is sourly missed here, I understand how busy you maybe, but at least dey check up on your disciples here from time to time sir. on behalf of all FTA newbies and indisciplined traders department say that we miss you sir and have not forgotten you sagely inputs here, they are words or wisdoms written in marble, and also shout to karkinase and Charly20, wetin we do wuna naw, wuna just ghost us completely, boss galleryeasy, abham, kozmicity, rhynoemmie, Lincolnonyebor, kaybee, rainlover and also not forgetting out discipline master aka sergeant kojo in person of boss feshizzy, A very big shout out wuna ooo, I say make I pay homage to wuna.

I think I'm forgetting someone, who could that be 🤔, oh yes humbletrader where art thou nowwww? 😁😁😁
🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️

My boss, I don't think you know how rapid the progress you're making is oo. The fact that you can make a mistake and realize it takes the grace of God. Now you know what you did wrong, what are you going to do to reduce the chances of it happening?


You're doing very well sir, use this Q2 to gather momentum and I thank you and everyone for keeping this thread active.

Pclemenza:
This is a safe space I believe.

So I became serious with learning to trade recently, February 2024. Why I took it more serious than previous years is because I wanted to give my life great meaning. I’m the 3rd child of 6 siblings, all are earning but I’m not. I don’t know what it is with my fate, destiny or reality but I find it difficult securing a job. 6years after leaving the university no gainful employment. Is there a curse laid on me in that regards?
Anyways, so I came into the FX space with the mindset to give myself meaningful existence, pursue financial freedom, time freedom and location freedom. I am an overthinker and this trait seem like a burdened disadvantage to me. I thought Photon trading on YouTube gave me clarity on Market structure but then, it seems like I’m not there yet.

WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
I’m introverted by nature and this jobless state of mine coupled with me getting older each year, I have lost all the hope and faith I thought I had. Nothing gives me Joy except on rare occasions I open the chart to analyze. I love to isolate, with thoughts running through my head always(my brain wan blow).

WHAT DO I NEED?
Aside gainful employment, I wish an insiders information could be shared with me on ways to earn. With that I could feed proper and my mind at ease while I continue my learning process.

ANY HELP PLEASE?

Babypips and trading in the zone by Mark Douglass.


Ma!e it your bread and butter

I woke up this morning to see Gold, Silver, Us30 and Nasdaq haven't moved a single pip since 10pm. Could anyone know why? I use FBS and they didn't say anything about abnormal trading hours due to holidays.

dennison4luv:
After 2yrs of trying I got my first payment today

Congratulations brother!!! See ginger 😁

You don try, you deserve it!

Davigle:


yaaayyyy kozibaba is back. I've been good bro and trading has been good and bad to me, not withstanding I've successfully turn myself to be the biggest loser and clown on FTA, I was trying to hide myself in shame b4 you pop out. great to have you back sire...

Can you believe that as soon as I dropped that comment, I got banned?!?🤣🤣

As for the losing part, I do not envy you😂 I've been through my days on FTA. You'll turn out fine, I think it's part of the process.

Davigle, abham, jameselias and all that asked about yours truly, thank you very much.

School and condition of Nigeria wants to finish me but my God pass them 🤣

I know I said I'd be back by February, but my last sessions result just came out and I habr two outstanding courses so I have to focus more on my subjects. But I'm still trying, and it's going good, the account is growing and I think I'm on course to hit my end of the year target. I hope for consistency till the end.


How've you all been? And how's trading been?

After two months of silence, I come back here to see arguments😂😂

Oh how I've missed nairaland!!!

main24:



-Whichever goalkeeper/player that comes to this current Man U, will highly under perform.

Going by this same logic, is it not safe to say DDG was over performing?

melodyogonna:

Yup. He's driving with the ball more this game sha

Nope. The reality that his DM partner would go upfront and always leave defensive duties to him is just settling in. He's maturing by force😂😂

That and he's our only ball progressing midfielder and you know what happens when we try to pass most times through the midfield when we're not on a counter... He's relying on the player he trusts most on the pitch. Himself.

It's becoming clear to me that Mainoo is not a natural DM. I think he's not necessarily an AM, but he's better just outside the 18 yard box.

We're missing too many chances but either way I smell a Hojlund goal coming. I won't compliment the team, they're playing Wigan if they don't look good then that's messed up.


Sell Martial, Pellestri and Antony. Buy Godo.

Oasis007:



Our best 11 against Wigan?! I have seen it all. LOL!

I was expecting Gore, Hannibal, Amad to start until I remembered that this is ETH😂

He hardly ever rotates his team.

Hello everyone. I promise I'm not ghosting, I'm very busy preparing to go back to school.

And I have presentations to do this month so I fit dey on ghost mode until February.

Mrviktor:
Sanch goes to Dortmund and drops 15 G/A and makes us look like bums

Easily. I really don't get why he couldn't be bothered to put in the effort here.

Davigle:


Nice to see the great gold slayer having the same bias as i

Married man, good morning sir. That your us30 call, is it long or short?

Jokerman:

@centredevils
🚨🚨🌕| Borussia Dortmund have offered to pay around a third of Jadon Sancho's wages, as part of their loan deal. [@hirstclass]

If this is true, ten tis is the best thing that can happen now. There's still a baller on that boy.

A tun ti de oo👏👏👏
Odun 2024. Happy new year everyone.


Under two days, 5 pages... Una begin the year with ginger.

Our host donsheddy... I hope you're warming up?

hensben:
Which of your current winger is better than Mudryk? Raphinha and co are average at best.

Yamal.

Itsrm:


Is this playing? He plays like this every match and occasionally turns up with a fluke goal/assist

He doesn't. Stop agenda.

As always😁 these people always wait until the last 5 minutes of the game to start taking shots. If they were shooting since first half, we'd definitely had scored more than one.

No matter sha, Bruno was horrendous in this game. I've never seen him play this badly before.

Bimmarlykay:
Kozmicity,market gave you and its now giving me.

Enjoy boss😁

Na till next year for me oo

Davigle:
Hey guys back to business as usual, if you are short any xxxusd pairs, I'd suggest you close your trade, economic data (red folder event) coming out of the US came out bearish for the dollar and the dollar is going to continue dumping, like I said last night that we are going to see a continuation of the yesterday's sell off, US30 may likely breach 37800 level, and gold about to continue pumping,

cc: kozmicity

Luckily for me I didn't get skinned. Got out at almost BE, gave all my profits to the market. I need to implement trailing stops in my strategy.

LincolnOnyeabor:


In your opinion sir, which assets move fast enough??


Thanks Chief.

xJPY pairs, Good, Silver, Nasdaq and Us30.

Geovanni412:


You sure say you no go try automation at this pace you dey go

Maybe you'll see some good software on appsumo in that regard,

There;s an offer to pay $50 and get vestinda backtesting and automation software on there.

I will eventually get a bot. But right now I can't chest it😁
I never go gym before.

Mrviktor:


Haaaa brooo.. It's very bad.
I see why he hasn't played any game now



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wamkGShbsw?si=ho8xDaOzxYWk0Ccg

I couldnt even watch it fully😭😭😭

We're dead!

kozmicity:


I've tried, and I'm still eliminating pairs. As of today, I took out EU, I no longer trade it again.

In future, I might shift totally from currency pairs as they don't move fast enough for me.


I trade nine pairs now. On the sit up challenge, I trade three.

Us30 left me.

realone12:
boss you are doing well, the only issue is that you trade too many pairs.. just select one or two pairs And save your self from this stress. I swear picking one pair and mastering it can sustain and profit you you more than you can imagine.. in this business, LESS IS MORE if you know what you are doing.

I've tried, and I'm still eliminating pairs. As of today, I took out EU, I no longer trade it again.

In future, I might shift totally from currency pairs as they don't move fast enough for me.


I trade nine pairs now. On the sit up challenge, I trade three.