Hi All

Looking to gain a small following for an experiment, gonna spreadbet 1,000 of my own hard earned with a view not to stop until I hit 25,000 or lose the lot!!

It'll be across a range of Index, equity & FX trades starting small and building the pot (or lose the lot) will be using flat stops and running profits with trailing stops.

If you want to follow every trade and watch the spiral up or down feel free to follow me on www.twitter.com/eyetrader - where I'll be simply be posting each trade as I click the mouse

BTW this is not spam, I'm not selling anything, I dont want any donations, more of a personal challenge that I'm going to conduct in public!!!! I'm hoping to see a few tips on here as well as my own strategies and ideas.

Lastly I'll be donating 5,000 of the profit (if/when I make it) to charity

May the slaughter commence :)

Eyetrader

Update on my 14k mission (see posts 10 & 12)

With 5 months gone, the 14,000 I started with on 1st October is now 18,215 (ie, up 4215 = 30%). Had I been withdrawing 375 per week, those withdrawals would have taken 7875, which would have made too big a dent. So that aspect of the original test would not have worked (and was always a very ambitious idea). Henceforth i will merely continue with growing the 14k pot to whatever level.

Since January 1st I've also been running another pot, starting with 3000 and spreadbetting along similar lines but less actively using barely 20% of the pot at any given moment. That now stands at 3839 (ie up 28% in two months).

Not much change to the SB account since I last reported two months ago. Managed to side-track myself back into FX for a few weeks in January with very poor results, but offset by profits in CEY and AUL and an excellent DJI long today; also took a small loss on RGM.

End result, 3000 is now 12,080.

Must admit, I've been feeling quite nervous about opening new positions since the New Year and have hardly traded at all. Actually, that's probably not a bad thing, apparently the biggest SB losers are those who trade too often.