I currently managing portfolio of my friend, the portfolio given to me at 23 September last month roughly around 27-30M. Looking at the portfolio it was really battered and damaged by the positions held. At first I though okay this size was good, but after heard the initial value of 150M, I felt…. “Well that is what every newbie do and give us profit”. I can say this because I have gone through same path. Surely discouraging, big pressure, angry, drive me to ask why God let me through this path?

I got lot of answer and things to learn, some of it were:

1. Humble character through experience – acknowledging market always right and if I’m wrong, its not about pride and fault. I believe most of us traders have felt at least once being humiliated by market, humiliated I mean was experiencing huge blowout to account, margin call, losing quarter, half, three quarter or all of the deposit. After humiliated, its our decision to maintain our ego, blaming ourselves, blaming systems, or acknowledging sometime losses are acceptable.

2. Truth in market is capital – you can boast you know about A, B, C, D until Z. But if you cannot make use of it or worse losing capital while trading, then you know nothing at all. I’ve met lot of preacher, talking about this and that truth which is compelling but in the end its all about good to hear music only (Lip service). Learn how to protect capital and practice what you learn, otherwise market will judge and punish you hard with losses.

3. Start from small – no one ever trusted to manage big things before they can manage small things. Keeping journal, making notes of what to trade, daily plan, long term plan, all of it are small things behind trading. I don’t think newbie trader keep track on what they buy, why they buy it and why they sell it, if you don’t know how is your system performing, how is your psychological condition while trading then you should start to know about all of it. Too detailed sometime dangerous too because can cause numbness which hinder you from taking trade, the key is maintaining balance.

That is several things I learn from my trading experience. All of them I learn from hard way, losing all my deposits, staring the monitor in pain, shedding tears, time and energy monitoring the position. I have paid good price for all I know right now, and I hope all newbie don’t need to experience what I experience, can learn it from easy way while knowing there is hard way.

Now I want to post the position when I was given the portfolio and current condition of the portfolio:

I made big “overhaul” to the account and here is current position of the account

And lastly all of the trade I took since I take over the account:

I use system as I posted in my site, that is supply and demand, using it with same rules and keep repeating them, of course there is calculation I use to determine stock value using ratio analysis and projection but I won’t post it here yet, and I don’t include my plan in this post. My point is repetition is mother of success, when you find something that is working just repeat it again and again until its not working again. The screenshot just a mean to encourage everyone who struggle in their trading, I hope this post will entertain and become inspiration for all of you who read it.