Introduce yourself!

[flampard]

Hi i am new to the forum (but not to trading) but i use other software and not geeks toy, is that fine ??

[Curlie028]

Good advice. Not following this advice can turn a winning day into a losing day just before the end of a trading session. Looking at your profit and loss before the end of a session is also a bad idea, for the same reason.

(In my recurring newbie experience. )

Cheers guys. Makes a lot of sense.
I spent 25 years in a world driven by targets.
Will feel strange not chasing a performance goal but completely get your advice and will follow it. *gulp*

[DarkHorse]

Carl

Newbie myself but setting a target daily is probably not sensible. If you are setting a target be it daily, weekly etc. and you have not achieved you may make rash decisions. If there is no trade there is NO TRADE. Trade what you see not what you want to achieve if that makes sense. Good luck, Mike

Good advice. Not following this advice can turn a winning day into a losing day just before the end of a trading session. Looking at your profit and loss before the end of a session is also a bad idea, for the same reason.

(In my recurring newbie experience. )

[ingers]

Carl

Newbie myself but setting a target daily is probably not sensible. If you are setting a target be it daily, weekly etc. and you have not achieved you may make rash decisions. If there is no trade there is NO TRADE. Trade what you see not what you want to achieve if that makes sense. Good luck, Mike

[lcredd]

Anyway, I'm in now and looking forward to the journey.

Good luck.

[Curlie028]

Hi everyone.
Quick intro.
I'm Carl from Lisburn. Absolute beginner at this game but determined to invest the time and patience to make it profitable. How profitable, I'm not too sure but have set myself a, what I think is modest target, of being up £50 per day on average, within 3 months. In a position I can play/work 5 days a week at this and going to give it a real go.

Started on the training mode yesterday on the horses and I fully get the difference when real money is being risked. Plan to use January to familiarise myself with the software on training mode; develop a strategy I am comfortable with; recognise the "watchouts" and how to exit myself from a potential disaster and explore the possibilities of other sports.

Have watched/read the GT beginners stuff and the style suits me and several videos on Youtube and plan to take several days to root around the forum and blogs to try and lessen my stupid questions. But brace yourself for some stupid question but I absolutely won't mind being redirected by a link for my answers.

Made a loss yesterday in terms of my training balance (and that's why I am in training mode) but in terms of the experience of getting in and trading, it was almost a vertical learning curve. And the Brucie bonus was, I enjoyed it. The day went with lots of small wins (£2 to £8, probably averaging about £4), three big losses where the market "turned against me" and I really didn't know what to do (strategy, strategy, strategy) and one big win of over £60. As I'm sure you can guess that pleased me a lot and I called it a day at that point as I had lost concentration/focus. For the £60 profit, on the Channel 4 early morning show, someone said Balgarry likes to go out fast and Racing Post projected an SP of 7/1. It was trading at mid 9s 25 minutes from the off and I backed it. Closer to the start it came in a little but sure enough as the race started, it and 2 others set the pace. The price tumbled and I layed it at 7 something, 5 something and 4 something early in the race and hedged at my mighty (well for me mighty) £60+. I guess you can see I am proud of that one but do appreciate there is a thing called beginner's luck that could be clouding reality for me.

Anyway, I'm in now and looking forward to the journey.

[freedoom]

Hi guys, glad to find a quality forum about the thing i enjoy doing. I hope you all had great winter holidays and a smooth passage into the new year. I'm looking forward to adding my two cents here and there

[Green Up]

Hey everyone,

New to the trading world, played a good amount of poker and bet sports a ton - now want to learn to trade. Spent a day or so reading the tradepedia before posting and now can't wait to get stuck in. Seems rather daunting at first mind, but will start with minimum stakes to keep the cost of education down

I mainly bet in play footy, usually the minor markets, so have some idea what's going on there and have some experience with horse racing too. I always kind of associated trading with in running, but all I keep reading is never let the race go in play! So I definitely have a lot to learn. I learnt a lot from forums with poker and hopefully will do the same and give back (when the time allows) here.

Would be great to get to know some of you better and chat, so PM or whatever.

Good luck

[trader441]

hi everyone , i have just joined and wanted to say what a good forum it is, i will be contributing as i go. nice to meet everyone

[Polarbear]

Arighty then

[Polarbear]

Hello everybody,
been learning to trade for about a month now and have signed up with you guys for the next 3 months. Trying to learn as much as i can and trying to stay as humble and disciplined as i can too. Hoping to watch and learn a great deal. Trading is something I want to get good at and am wanting to do it for a long time to come.

[Ricco78]

Hi all,

Newish to trading, reading lots and watching videos and starting off small on the markets.

Any advice, tips or help would be received gratefully.

[Howles]

Hi

Been a lurker on the forum for a while and after reading some of the comments thought i would join in. Total newbie to trading, so am looking to learn.

[KeithEvans]

HI,

Just a quick hello to all on this forum.

I'm Keith and hail from sunny? Doncaster.

Read a bit of ithe forum so far and there seem to be some very knowledgeable folks here so looking forward to learning this "art" and maybe even making some spare cash.

Just purchased the Geeks Toy, after playing with it for a few weeks..it looks excellent and after trying out several of the opposition toys this is the one for me.

Will probably be posting lots of stupid questions, so bear with me!

Cheers for now then, and good to be here.
Keith

[TradedUp]

Drunken trader

Sorry.....I mean that guy who trades greyhounds