Paul's $100,000 FTMO Challenge

[kxpgtech]

Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, FTMO offered a 10% discount, I ordered a $100,000 Challenge Account to seriously test the AIMS Banana Method.

Day 1: 1-9-2023
Today, I started trading with this account and made total 9 trades as summarized in the Table below.

1. Symbols: US30, US100, GER40, GBPUSD
2. Method, Timeframe and Direction: Banana Method, 1M.
3. Risk: 0.75%
4. SL: Bring to BE at 1R and Trailing Stop

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Trade 1
Sell 28.61 lots US30 at 33847, SL 33873.66, TP 33795.02 at 18:43. Closed at 18:44 for $783.91 loss.

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Trade 2
Sell 12.61 lots GBPUSD at 1.21849, SL 1.21848, TP 1.21743 at 19:22. Stopped at 19:32 for $25.22 Profit.

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Trade 3
Sell 0.46 lots (by mistake) US30 at 33762, SL 33780, TP 33716.86 at 20:15. Stopped out at 20:20 for $8.65 Loss.

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Trade 4
Sell 83.6 lots GER40 at 14771.65, SL 14761.87, TP 14750.85 at 20:40. Stopped 20:49 for $45.50 Profit.

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Trade 5
Sell 35 lots US30 at 33654.8, SL 33653.73, TP 33590.7 at 20:44. Closed at 20:42 for $866.75 Profit.

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Trade 6 
Sell 17 lots US30 at 33642.3, SL 133665.78, TP 33590.7 at 20:50. Stopped out at 20:52 for $419.9 Loss (I use 0.5% risk in this trade).

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Trade 7 
Sell 42.79 lots US100 at 11216.6, SL 11215.88, TP 11121.69 at 21:12. Stopped at 21.14 for $8.56 Loss.

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Trade 8 
Sell 40.12 lots US100 at 11212.5, SL 11211.41, TP 11188.51 at 21:16. Hit target at 21.40 for $990.96 Profit.

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Trade 9 
Sell 44.3 lots US100 at 11178.4, SL 11147.78, TP 11124.78 at 21:48. Hit target at 22:00 for $1373.3 Profit.

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Day 2: 1-10-2023
Today is my second day of Challange. I traded only 4 trades as summarized in the Table below.

1. Symbols: US30, US100, 
2. Method and Timeframe: Banana Method, 1M.
3. Risk: 1%
4. SL: Bring to BE at 1R and Trailing Stop instead of BE

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Trade 10 
Sell 183.85 lots US100 at 11091.7, SL 11097.72, TP 11063.76 at 13:29. 
Closed 91 Lots at 13:33 for $618.8 Profit. The other lots stopped out at 13:37 for $1104.92 Profit.

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Trade 11 
Sell 93.99 lots US30 at 33390.3, SL 33404.15, TP 33367.4 at 13:42. Stopped out at 13:44 for 1362.86 Loss.

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Trade 12 
Sell 66.1 lots US30 at 33391.3, SL 33407.43, TP 33346.4 at 13:29. 
Closed 16 Lots at 14:17 for $486.4 Profit. The other 50.1 lots stopped out at 14:35 for $1062.12 Profit. 

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Trade 13 
Sell 95.88 lots US100 at 11049.4, SL 11057.69, TP 11021.31 at 17:00. 
Closed 47 lots at 14:14 for $827.2 Profit. The other 48.88 lots stopped out at 14:20 for $1305.10 Profit. 

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[kxpgtech]

Thanks, and Happy New Year!

I am still learning. I think that I will need a lot of luck to pass the Challange. I still need to learn and practice a lot.