Once again I've been saved by the bell. Back to a few weeks ago, while I was pretty bullish on the stock markets, I cut my most leveraged long positions near the May top (closed my DAX positions at around 6250) only because I had to leave for a 2-week vacation and no one can keep a leveraged position in such a market environment. Thanks to The Lord of Trading!
Back to my trading record for the period this year from Jan. 1st to May 14th : I think I've never been so wrong in my global macro views but at the same time I've never done such a performance : on my leveraged index
bucket I banked a profit of +742 points on the DAX and +166 on the short side of the Eurostoxx 50 for a total perfomance of close to +380% (near 5x).
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