Tough battle to breakeven - and a reflection on trading

Mark Sear • Jul 12, 2021

Tough days teach you as much as good days - live trading on a choppy day

Trading really is a tough business.  One of the toughest.  Not physically, although sometimes it can be.  But mentally it can be wearing and at times be so hard you can want to go crazy.  That's why when it just isn't happening, at Inteligex we teach you to do something else. 


The Inteligex trading system has complex artificial intelligence and math within it.  Without a Phd the math is too complex to explain.  The product has thousands of hours of development in it over the nearly two decades since we produced the first version.


Why do we trade it?  Because it works.  That's why we trade it live every day, to show you how simple you can make a complex thing.  Learning to trade or improving your trading couldn't be simpler.  But there are still some tough days.  And on those days we like to reflect on trading.  What it means and why we love it.  So today, having made $200+ and given it all back in the same 30 minutes we went to the beach and reflected on why we trade.  And listened to the waves. 


For the Americans watching we were at Slapton Sands, the scene of Exercise Tiger.   The official death toll was 749 men - far more than were killed on the storming of Utah beach on the real D-Day, but some believe that the real body count was 1,000 or more.   

As for the trading itself, in all honesty it started OK but then we missed a move and lost our footing.  Once at breakeven we stopped.  Never chase losses.  It simply doesn't work.  The great thing?  A break even day is rare.  Now ... we can expect a lot of profitable days.  Summer time is almost here though, and time for a well earned break.  Trading is simply a wonderful lifestyle.

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