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OliverBensonMember
Hi All,
I hope you are all doing well and trading happily.
I feel I owe you all (and especially Nick) an apology for getting so behind with my reporting. Just updated performance to date.
Although I’ve been rubbish about keeping up to date here on the forum, I have been trading my system religiously and not missed a day or a trade all year. Finally out of drawdown and back to new highs after getting destroyed last June in the energy stock meltdown.
I’ve done exactly what everyone tells you you’re not supposed to do – I quit my day job and joined a futures trading prop firm in London last september. It has been a steep learning curve and a huge personal challenge but all is going well and I am only really now coming up for air (hence the absence on the forum).
I will do better going forward keeping up to date and will carry on trading my system as per usual.
I look forward to catching up on all your posts that have backed up since I last logged on in jan/feb.
Best Wishes all!
Oli
P.S. – I must figure out how to correct my mis-spelling of my own name on the topic title! I still cringe every time I see it!
OliverBensonMemberJune 2023
MOC Long 1 +3.76%
OliverBensonMemberMay 2023
MOC Long 1 +0.41%
OliverBensonMemberApril 2023
MOC Long 1 +2.00%
OliverBensonMemberMarch 2023
MOC Long 1 +4.95%
OliverBensonMemberFebruary 2023
MOC Long 1 +7.18%
OliverBensonMemberHi Glen,
Thanks very much for your message. Yes I have all those checked.
However I just tried again and orders went in fine!…. no idea what that was all about. Maybe some sort of IB maintenance thing.
I’ll keep an eye on it and let you know of any other funny business.
Many thanks again and best wishes.
OliverBensonMemberJanuary 2023
MOC Long 1 +1.12%
OliverBensonMember2022 Performance
MOC Long 1 – +2.72%
Tough Year. However I am happy with my execution. I traded every single trading day and took every trade (with one exception when I pulled $AMC order whilst I was on holiday as it was trading c.-30% in pre trading. This was soon after hitting max drawdown in the summer).
Will carry on this year and revisit the short system (now with over a year’s out of sample data since I built it).
Best wishes to all, as always.
OliverBensonMemberCorrection – wrong colour! RED intended
OliverBensonMemberDecember 2022
MOC Long 1 -4.43%
OliverBensonMemberNovember 2022
MOC Long 1 +6.58%
OliverBensonMemberOctober 2022
MOC Long 1 +3.77%
OliverBensonMemberSeptember 2022
MOC Long 1 +1.27%
OliverBensonMemberAugust 2022
MOC Long 1 +2.46%
Confession time – I went on holiday for the last 2 weeks of August. Traded whilst away. On one day whilst loading my trades (can’t remember the exact date), I noticed $AMC trading down about 35% in pre session trading and it was one of my limit orders. I scratched it. I know it was the wrong thing to do and I should have just rolled the dice. However, its been a rough ride recently, I was on a long overdue holiday and I just bottled it. Won’t make a habit of it I promise!
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