Hi there,
Managed FX accounts fairly much follow the same pattern of success of self traders..ie 95% lose. Newbies beware, you will get taken, that much I guarantee you.
I was, like a lot of folks, rather tempted to enter after seeing that massive 75% month with Galleon....it's called greed.
What concerned me was the fact they had revised their syste or rather completely revamped it...and now they are adding more filter sto it! Jeesh, I guess they are saying their system sucked.
Generously they lowered their minimum to 1k instead of 25K...I wonder why?
Luckily I knew of a fellow who had small account with them and in his own words "you can see up to 20% swings in equity sometimes even on a daily basis" Now that volatile and sooner or later that degree of leverage can bit and bite hard.
So, I resisted my urges, after being burnt a number of times (ok, call me a slow learner!) I am beggining to get wiser. Doubts started to creep in when they posted a nice follow up month in the money...should I or shouldn't I? Well, my view was if they are any good they'll be around in the future.
Well, the rest is history, as are most folks accounts with them, but it seems there are a never ending supply of newbies to prey upon...while they lose you money they make big on brokerage commissions. Sometimes iIreally do wonder is thats what its all about for some of these companies..ie...brokerage commssion on the trades....and if they make profit for clients, well geat, they get a slice of that action as well.
Call me a pessimist if you may....I like to call it being a realist.
Analyzing the merits of managed accounts is not easy..don't be fooled by simple performance numbers alone - it is ALOT more difficult than that and takes a high degree of trading competency to really analyze the risks...and even then ther's no guarantees.
The best money managers are swallowed up before you get hear about them at retail level - why would they bother with 1k accounts when they have million dollar clients?
I suspect you'll do well to follow the suggestion of simply buying EUR as the US continues printing more and more money, gutting the value of the dollar - no one can argue that. I came to this realisation a while ago, went long on JPY, CHF, EUR, AUD and GOLD all against the dollar. Only wish I jumped on this earlier.....a simple one way trade, add to you positions as it moves in your direction, take some money off the table occasionally allowing for adequate money management when the market moves against you.
I've even developed a simple EA to follow the trend (rather, I had a programmer do this...I'm no techie)
For most folks who haven't traded before, it seems all too hard, but its not so hard as you may think....got a half an hour spare and I'll show you how...and yeah, there's a catch! Interested in knowing what it is?? Just ask me.
My 20 cents worth, trust you enjoy!
Cheers, Adam
