I must be the worst forex trader in the world, I have lost money, made money, broken all the rules and I don’t care.  I don’t have stop losses, I don’t look at risk and reward, I don’t use indicators, I don’t use a signal service with a 97% win rate. I look at everything else but the market. And yet I have 100% success rate of my trading cycles with a 37.33% gain in the first 10 days of July 2021 with a relative drawdown of only 0.56%.  This is not with a one-time trade on a small capital account.  This is with 308 trades with more than £10,000 in play over ten days, I guess I must be reckless, fighting with the market, making macro and micro economic analysis, second guessing the Fed and any other Central bank and not a whiff of crypto currency near the account!  What the heck am I doing??

Having done every style of trading known to man, I stopped to think for a moment and realised just how crazy trading really is.  3 years ago, I had the good fortune to meet a young aspiring man who introduced me to a style of grid and hedge trading.  Little did I know how powerful that lesson and encounter was for me.  I immediately embraced it and realised the potential it could generate.  Unfortunately, it still had its pitfalls and massive exposures. Drawdowns that left me sleepless and anxiety levels through the roof.  The reward was a £4000 investment that grew to over £100,000 in under 6 months.

To most people that is a staggering achievement but in my pursuit of happiness, I was well short of the quality of life it had created. The stress was too much!  I spent the next couple of years looking to break the link between %gain and %drawdown.  A traders delight!

The way I look at it is as follows.  I build a trading strategy that suites a trading profile of capital, then I leverage it up.  Most people think they can trade with only $500 and multiples thereof, and I used to too.  It gave me a false positive feeling of making $50 or 10% per week and 70% per month. Using the rule of 72, if I am making 10% per week I will double my money in 7.2 weeks.  This I did and have the accounts to prove it, but at what cost?  I got the %gain part of the equation but I could not break away from the massive drawdown to blowing my account exposure.

High Drawdowns, Anxiety & Stress is a killer!  I did my very best to look at ways to beat it, crack it and do away with it.  I tried all the tricks in the book, every type of indicator, bot and strategy but in real-time there was nothing to rely on.  I needed to find a unique element of real-time adaptive intelligence to help me initiate trades, take healthy %gains without the risk of big drawdowns. This is what I do now!