Trading Expectations Gone Wrong
Who has lost their lunch trading? I’m sure if you did, you’d be the last to admit it.
Unfortunately I know many who have lost a lot of money trading Forex. Recently, I seem to have had more poor trading records shared with me than at any other time. So I decided to pull into my past records from a few years ago – a nameless, yet very real and sad record. It is the example of a very extreme case. And no this isn’t my own trading record, and yes it is a real account record of someone I know.
I share this as a very real case of what misguided expectations can mean for someone – especially one with a lot of money to trade. Manage your expectations. Outsized returns CANNOT be the norm in ANY market. When you begin to think you’re the exception, the following can happen to you.
Below is where an account was at the peak of its drawdown.
Below is where the account was a few days after the top snapshot was taken.











