Small Account Challenge

January is turning out to be a bit of a roller-coaster market for my main account. After a couple of frustrating days last week, I was hopeful I could start this week off with some by-the-numbers trading setups straight off the screeners. Unfortunately, my first trade on Monday on a breakout in...

Well I finally closed the book on December’s small account challenge and, after spending a few days refocusing my attention on the main trading account, I came to a decision about The January Challenge. In brief, I decided to really put my money where my mouth is and trade exclusively with a...

I’m happy to report that the holiday week has been another strong one for my small account challenge, adding another $16,000 and more than quadrupling my buying power from last week. After just 14 trading days I have managed to turn my initial $500 account (which was actually a little less...

After a hugely successful month of training through November, December marks the start of my brand new $500 small account challenge. Only 3 days in, I’ve already increased my account by about 50% and I’m feeling confident I can carry over the lessons I learned from trading smaller size...

October’s turned out to be a decisive month for my trading career, just not quite the way I had originally hoped. Anyone who follows my daily trading recaps or regularly checks in on my Benzinga dispatches might know a bit of what I’m hinting at. Those who are not familiar with me or...