Welcome to the forum.
Most people are unaware of this but THE John Maynard Keynes was also a trader (and arguably the first hedge-fund manager ever). He traded forex and had a leverage ratio of ~ 1:10. He, of course, lost all his money once on a USD/DDM trade that initially seemed profitable and was fundamentally sound ..... he had to borrow to get back in the game.
G-Soros of the Sterling pound fame also lost some money on some forex bet during the Asian crisis, it went largely unnoticed because Quantam still closed positive in that year.
Hell, even Jim Simons Medallion lost some money 07/08
With all due respect; it would seem that some of the greatest traders (Keynes, Soros, Simmons) of all time have lost some money trading forex at one point or other but not so you
Long story short, forex markets are volatile and with
leverage amplifying either side of the '&' in P&L, ....Richard your returns as posted here seem too good to be true and reek of "survivorship" bias.
They say that all you need to have is more (bigger) positives than negatives...as absurd as this sounds, show us some losses and the more skeptical around us may very well start to believe you.
Also, at leverage of 1:200/500 is it possible that your trading strategy is creating a
Negatively skewed return distribution... I wonder, what risk management tools are you using? How much of your own capital?
Finally, I think I have an idea on how you can silence us naysayers (true, you don't have to prove anything but can a real trader resist the challenge to "stick it to someone" every now and then)...
Have you a Twitter account? If not, open one. How about you let us follow you on Twitter as you
TWEET YOUR TRADES LIVE ...
we have access to these platforms and will be able to follow price movements. We can also appoint independent referees/volunteers from amongst ourselves and in 2 weeks time, you will have earned our respect and apologies.
Do you accept my challenge?... and thanks.
P.S Looking forward to the commodity thread