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It’s Saturday night and I realize I’ve not updated anything in a while. If you’ve been following the MyFXBook link, you’d see that the account was blown recently. Let’s just say that things have been difficult, but I’m not making excuses.

https://www.myfxbook.com/portfolio/876forex-hf-zero/11326249

I’d like to point to this ChatGPT analysis.

https://chatgpt.com/share/693dffac-89d4-8010-ac34-5e0adc9411ec

You’re free to ask whatever you want on that analysis. The only things withheld are names and account numbers. I forgot to ask it to confirm that the accounts are live and not demo – but you’re free to go ahead with that as well.

ChatGPT seems to have left off some of the info, so I’ll clarify. Here’s what took place and what’s going on.

I think I’ve said this before – I’ve been searching for a “holy grail” and never found it. I’ve paid for various systems, EAs (Expert Advisors – basically trading robots) and other things including courses – and nothing really helped. It wasn’t until just before the last course I took that things started making sense.

I was having good success prior to 2019 – and then some personal tragedy struck which made me stop trading until 2023. I had to then re-learn a profitable strategy – I had everything in my head and not written down at that point.

During this learning phase, I tried to find things that would just run on auto-pilot – none of them worked. Others trading the account for me failed. Copying others failed – I’ll clarify this in a bit, as it doesn’t mean the persons were not successful. I attempted to teach others what I knew so I could have them be successful and then copy them directly – that failed as well. Then in August of this year – I finally decided to take matters into my own hands.

https://www.myfxbook.com/portfolio/876forex-hf-zero/11326249

I had lots of up and down before settling in and doing what I was teaching others – refining it – and getting to where I am now. I then took one added course from a successful trader – someone that I could see their results – and tried to add that into my own strategy. It made things a bit rocky to integrate the newly learned things, but I managed to get ahead overall.

This course was taken after moving $10 to $1,000. That date is also the second time I’ve done something like that – the first time was back in 2019.

I’ve actually done it a total of about 3 times now – just not starting at $10. The third time is in progress. I started with $82 on an MT5 account and had problems with it after growing the account to around $400. I ended up finding that the indicators I originally had on MT4 did not port well enough to MT5. I then switched back to MT5 and have that account now up to $900.

This was being traded together with the $10 account – but it’s been hard.

Here’s where I’ll show the problems with copy trading. Let’s put that into a separate section as well.

Copy Trading

I was originally copying from the $400 account to the $10 account. As you can imagine, that didn’t work out. When trades could go to -$20 or more before coming back in profit, the $10 account couldn’t handle it.

I then tried to copy in the opposite direction – but the focus was always the larger account. I would trade for a short time then move on to the bigger account – abandoning the small one. It’s hard to focus on the two.

Why this probably failed when I was copying others is also evident here. If my account is $200 and the person I’m copying has a $10,000 account – they can handle things going against them for a much longer time.

How can this work out then? Don’t copy from someone who’s using an account more than triple your size. If you’re starting with $200 – don’t copy from someone with more than $500. Ideally – start with someone who resets their account each month or few months to facilitate persons with smaller accounts.

Going Forward – 2025 into 2026

I still plan to trade the small $10 account and get it up to $1,000 once more, but it’s going to be a lot less frequent. I won’t be doing it as quickly. My focus will be elsewhere due to work and other personal issues.

The plan is still the same – document how I did it once more – finally – and then leave things at that.

Scamming isn’t the only way to make foreign currency while living in Jamaica. You also don’t need to slave in certain jobs – but you will have to do it while you learn trading and until you build your account enough to remove your day job.

Stick with it – go through the process. There will be ups and downs – just tough it out. $10 is really not much to start from – that’s less than JMD$2,000 – and if you have the discipline – you’ll make it.

I will be posting each day after I trade the small account. I was posting some of the trades I took on the bigger account and the recoveries and such – but I may just focus on the small one until it gets over $200 – and then I can post more.

Regardless – don’t let my failures here get to you. It’s a part of the process. If you were able to learn something from it – then my work is done.

Stick to it and you’ll get there.

May the pips be with you.

Monday session was a bit choppy to start – coming from Sunday evening.

Only one position could be taken due to the account size, but the overall trend direction was up – so closed at TP.

What I’ll show is the more ideal situation for learning purposes.

After price retraced to the zone and MA – enter again. This would lock in even more profit.

Thereafter – check the charts and note the direction change. Trade the opposite side.

First entry was not OTE – second entry was closer to OTE at retrace to MA – third entry was additing to position. All close when you hit target – or set at/close to zone.

Which can obviously be seen in the last screenshot above. More entries could have been taken at the bounce with TP set at the red QT zone – but targets are met and you can get out. Go do your regular daily routine.

The account is too small to take multiple trades right now – but with everything being done from the laptop/desktop – it gives better visibility.

So I took a major hit during the Thursday session – entirely my fault and deserved.

As you can see from the message in the group I’m in – I don’t hide the information. It’s just easier and faster to post there than to get home – find my laptop – screenshot or transfer and then post.

But you saw the -$53 in the original picture – how is this one more? Because I got into revenge trading right after. Here’s what happened.

• I had multiple out of town trips to do (Western parishes – limited signal)..
• Decided to force and do entries on my phone without proper analysis on desktop (against my rules).
  • Yes I marked up the charts on the phone, but I can’t see the full picture there.
  • There are no QT zones on the phone.
  • I’d have to manually mark in other areas.
  • MTF (multi-timeframe) analysis is harder on the phone.
• Was on the road driving at the time – got to laptop thereafter and started doing LOTS of stuff I shouldn’t have.
  • Open positions running and I was doing remote support plus watching shows to catch up.
• By the time I looked back on the chart – BOOM. The drop.

All of these things compounded to the massive loss I suffered. Let me show on the desktop.

So here’s the H1 above. You can see that price moved down – bounced off the zone and MA – then went above where I was. The account is too small to handle that, but I broke too many of my rules to go in there.

On the M1 – the setup wasn’t even correct. Price was below the MA and below RSI. These are things that would have been missed on the phone.

And lastly above – the revenge trades. Yes – they were in better positions – but these were taken from my phone once more. So I’ve taken some drastic measures since.

Primarily – I’ve removed the trading platforms from my phone. This will eliminate the temptation to look at any charts and do anything at all unless I actually have the time. If I can’t spend 2-3 hours dedicated to the charts, I won’t be trading at all. This really comes back to one of my earlier posts.

2025-11-18 – Just Because You Can ($10 reset)

Just because you CAN trade from the phone – doesn’t mean you should. I can, but even when I did it – I didn’t have time to do proper analysis. ALL of the stuff with the mistakes I made could be seen from the phone, but I was forcing things.

This will likely result in less trades, and especially when work causes me to be on the road multiple days back-to-back, I may not get any trading in…but it’s better to not trade than to do stupidness.

On another note – the person in the group mentioned “order flow” to add to my arsenal. I’ll probably look into it if I’m not able to repeat what was done before. Let me post that and give context.

Multiple deposits and withdrawals done during testing phases. Accidental deposits and all that. Tried to copy others and tried automated systems (EAs).

I started trading the account myself in August messed up some stuff while testing – then decided to get serious on the 27th after losses the same day. There were no more deposits until the withdrawal was done.

The stats are there and it shows what took place. Yes they look messed up, but that’s because I didn’t reset anything – change any accounts – and I’ve been transparent about all that took place.

I’ve done this twice now since I’ve been trading – but my lack of time has always made me fall back into looking for others to do it for me, or to find some way to automate. I’ve taken it fully myself since.

The final deposit done on the account is on November 19th – then I had this blow up on December 4th. No need to deposit back $10 because I closed things out before it got too bad. Would have blown the account otherwise – not enough balance to hold until it came back.

So let’s see what happens with this “new” approach. No more phone trading at all. Ever. If I can stick to that – since the phone is convenient for some things – but let’s get the discipline in there.

I want to show that it can be done – the first time wasn’t a fluke – the second time I did it and have public stats to prove – and the third time I do it will be my last public display to show everyone – it can be done – it can still be done – and if you make the effort to learn – the possibilities are endless.

Apologies for taking so long to get things posted, but I have to sleep – and my day job takes priority right now since it pays for everything. Regardless of what I do or what I make – once this journey is done – nothing more on the blog. Anyone visiting would have all the information and details they’d need in order to get things done.

One final thing – don’t look for me on Telegram for those who recognize the platform. There’s LOTS of persons who go by 876Forex or similar handles. You likely won’t find me – and I’d like to keep it that way. All the resources are online. I hardly have time for much else. No I won’t trade for you. No I won’t do any teaching. If you have questions, I’ll try to answer them when I have time.

Stick to your rules. May the pips be with you.

Why add to a losing position? Because the overall trend is correct. Yes – I could have closed the other buy positions with better amounts – but the overall percentage was made.

51 pips and nearly 8% for the day so far. Not bad. Will see if anything comes up later in the day.

*EDIT*

So I went back in after and grabbed some more.

Here’s the rest of the trades taken.

As you can see – price was in an up trend on the higher timeframe.

There was an inverted head and shoulders pattern on the M15 – which is a bit hard to see on the regular charts. It was actually easier for me to see on the phone versus the desktop.

But it was really plain to see on the line chart.

This is why you should do your multi-timeframe analysis and also check for your setups/patterns on other views.

That’s it for me today – have a good one!

So I started off yesterday evening at session changeover with a sell based on the longer timeframe downward trend. A little upset I didn’t hold it longer.

Finished off this morning with some scalp trades – sell back to the MA and then into the longer term trend change direction. For the change – again – wish I had held it longer.

Targets are met however – and tomorrow is another day.

Drew the trend lines on the higher timeframes (M15) and waited on price to get near the upper trend line. Entry was taken and TP was lower, but I got my 5% target for the day – right by the QT line – and closed out. That’s really how it should be done if you have the time and can monitor. I just happened to be home after work and looking at the chart at the right time.

This places the account now at $65. Just about $40 more to go ($35 to be exact) to reach $100. From there we can take things easier and start scaling up – maybe.

So it’s now December 1st. Market open on the evening before (Sunday evening) saw gold make a pin and a drop. I actually got in and it went in profit – but I was too slow to close it.

This resulted in my position being held in drawdown for a while, but I realized the fact that it wasn’t a direction change – just market opening noise – and the bounce off the zone below. Confirmation came at the MA cross but then price had issues breaking the QT zone above. While I did close in overall profit, price ended up surging higher.

Why did I open the sell in any case? Because price had gone near a zone on the higher TF.

This had the potential to be a double top within the original formation – like a second retest to the high before going down.

So yes – it was counter to the trend, but you can see my reasoning.

The good thing is – I was able to identify the change of direction and act accordingly.

This has pushed the account ahead further than planned, but also shows what stacking in the right direction can do.

I couldn’t have known that price was going to go back up after the initial open and push down – there’s just no way. I did see that the overall long term direction was up, but we’re talking about gold here.

Every timeframe has to run its course. While the higher timeframe always has priority, the lower timeframe runs may still cause you to earn or lose a lot of pips/money. You have to be cognizant of the fact that every timeframe matters.

Hopefully the pictures also help to put things in perspective and give some context to why I did what I did – when I did it.

As always – keep safe – may the pips be with you.

Today isn’t a trading day being Friday. If you checked gold however, it is hurtful how far it went. Lots of pips missed if you look at it that way. Next week is another week though.

Since it’s MT4 you can’t see the entries or trade levels like you would on MT5. But I did have buys.

Anyways. Let’s talk about the available options here. Digicel and FLOW.

I’ll be honest. I don’t like either one. The day Starlink becomes available with mobile data, that’s it. I may keep a number for calls, but nothing else. That’s also why I’ve stopped trading from the phone really. Even if I can connect to my laptop or VPS remotely to get a better look at the charts, there are issues with data connectivity.

My take is simple. FLOW does better for calling plans, while Digicel is better for data plans.

FLOW plans include unlimited calling. Digicel has 2,500 and 3,500 minutes on their 28 day and 30 day plans respectively.

If data is what you need – Digicel is better and faster. If speed and reliable data isn’t your thing – just having some connectivity – then FLOW will work fine.

If you make lots of calls and that’s more important, then FLOW is the better choice.

If you drive a lot though, then it doesn’t matter much for calls. Both networks drop calls while driving, but Digicel does better. FLOW gives better coverage in rural areas for calls, and may actually give some data access.

Since data is needed for trading – whether from the phone or hotspot to laptop – I’ve switched to Digicel. In the past I needed calls more – but data is the more valuable resource these days for me.

What’s your experience like? Are your findings the same?

Original position was added to on the retrace to the MA. Price went further down and that’s when I zoomed out and drew the trend lines – which I really should have done before. Price went down to the zone and then bounced – I entered close to the lower trend line since price was in a wedge. All positions were given the same TP and all hit – putting me ahead by 9%.

*EDIT*

And while ahead – I went back in and didn’t follow my own rules. Did everything late and also took a trade again from my phone without watching things properly.

The result? I’m behind by a bit, but still overall ahead.

Account is now at $40.74.

Next week is another week.

I won’t be touching this again – as I should have – and will get back to it next week. Hope you were more disciplined than me this week.

Come next week I’ll see if I can stick to my own rules more closely.

Have a great rest of the week and weekend everyone!

It’s a little difficult with a day job to get trading done. Especially one that keeps you on the road a lot. I did say I wouldn’t trade when on the road – but I did that today. Fortunately – it worked out. But let’s look at each day.

Yesterday – 2025-11-25 – I took 3 positions. First was taken as I figured the setup was there – conditions were met – and I didn’t expect the full retrace to the MA. It did – so I entered again twice. This resulted in +$8.62 which pushed the account forward to $33.66 – 27% profit on that account size.

Today though – I took one trade in the evening for a 6% profit before getting out. This pushed the account up to $35.72 and I figured I’d just take that and be done.

While on the road today though – I couldn’t help myself. Checked the charts on the phone and saw what I figured was a good setup. Bear in mind that on the phone I have no SR zones, no QT zones and no Heikin Ashi candles.

I thought I’d take a sell position back to the MA – which was against the overall trend. The bad positions were hedged to get rid of the bad ones – then added to the winning position to get overall ahead. I got back in after doing some better analysis.

Original position taken and added to on the retrace to the MA. The two added positions at the end were taken to square the account up to $40.10.

Tomorrow is another day – but I believe the markets may close at midday. I may take additional positions tonight, but with the amount made for the week so far – I may also leave things alone.

A position was taken – not the best entry – but let’s see if I can get 10-20 pips out of this. An update will be posted in the morning.