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    • #2673
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Hi everyone.

      I’d like to introduce myself as well.

      My name is Cassy. I am from The Netherlands, live in my own little apartment in the middle of downtown Rotterdam.
      I started trading when I was about 22 years old, which is 4 years ago, you can do the math to guess my age ;).

      Why did I start trading?
      Well, I’ve always been one to look for ways to earn money, because I’ve always disliked working for someone else except myself. The only jobs I’ve been able to “hold” were jobs that were free of boss intervention. Jobs where I was able to work from the comfort of home. Because of my IT background, I was lucky to have found some of those jobs during my younger years.

      One day, a new friend told me that she trades. She showed me that she made a bit of “side-money” by just speculating on the stock market with Plus500. She didn’t do much of research or analysis though, but still made a bit of money. It intrigued me. So the nerdy side of me went researching, found a ton of ways to trade and a ton of stories. It was then I knew this is one of the ways to make money without having to work for someone else. This is when I knew that I want to become good at this.

      The beginning sucked though. I started in the Forex market, because the huge leverage and the nice trading times interested me. I started trading during work, during school classes, just whenever I could. It was extremely exciting. I made some nice starter money, but within a blink of an eye (overnight) I lost my equity (which was a lot, especially for a student). This took me back to real life. I knew that success comes from failing, because you gain experience by making mistakes. So I didn’t give up, but went for a bit of different approach.

      Where am I now?
      From there, I decided to be more patient, I started taking trading classes for six months straight, which is free for students here. I joined some chat channels where traders, with a lot more experience than me, helped each other. Now, after 4 years I finally started to make some steady money with trading, what I never could have thought of a few years ago. I still have a long road to go, though, to be able to make this my living. But on this site, I’d like to share my journey, my experience, my past mistakes in the hope that it’ll help you and I hope to inspire more people to just try it! It might not be for you, but it might as well be the best thing you’ll ever do in life. I know it is for me.

      So yeah, welcome! I can’t wait to get to know you all a bit more.

    • #2358
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Ah, I have been to busy to document my trades, but I actually did a short on Groupon (GPRN) during news. Thought that they aren’t doing well and I was right (-30%).

    • #2340
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Yes, I did. Last time they were holding shorts off by pumping the stock price. Figured this time they couldn’t, so yes I went short. Closed my position now, I like going in and out fast. 😀

    • #2337
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Tonight GOPRO (GPRO) will come with an earnings release. Let’s see what happens!

    • #2321
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      I closed Amazon (AMZN) with a profit of +10%. It was a great day 🙂
      Next week more is coming.

    • #2313
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Today, AMZN (Amazon) is coming out with a quarterly report during after hours. I expect big movement! Going for a position in LONG. Let’s see what happens!

    • #2311
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Yesterday CREE beat its estimates. Initial reaction was positive, but moved a bit into red. CREE opened in green though, but movement wasn’t big enough as expected. So I didn’t gain much or lose much this straddle.

      Yesterday before market close I opened a LONG position on CTXS (Citrix Systems) with only 15 euro. News was after hours and I thought this should be positive, seeing old numbers! And it was. They announced increasing outlook and named a new temp. CEO. Market reacted positively. I gained a great profit of 31 euro. See my result here:

      • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Ashe.
    • #2089
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Nice posts Khanh. Curious to see how this turns out.

    • #2087
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      I think devaluing the yuan could be seen as a step to the right direction. It has shocked many analysts and that is why the market is declining, but they done this for a reason. I have faith in the Chinese market. Time will tell.

    • #2085
      Ashe
      Keymaster

      Yes, what Khanh said is correct. There are not many CFD online brokers with negative balance protection, but Plus500 is one of the few. This does mean you cannot lose more money than you deposit. Once you equity goes to 0, your position is indeed automatically closed and if this happens, this is called ´Margin call´.

      If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply again 🙂

      Btw, Google “negative balance protection” for more info regarding this.

      • This reply was modified 2 years, 12 months ago by Ashe.
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