obviously he didnt stick to fixed risk per trade rule. lets learn from his mistake, and mine also.
say if u risk only 2% each trade, (this 2% depends on lot size and stop loss you set).
as the account grow, this fixed risk must be maintain regardless of what strategy used. all martingale will violate this rule, so avoid.
this 2% risk rule must also go with only 1 open trade at all time, so if you have 1:2 risk reward, you only grow 4% max at a time each trade. That means it's gonna be slow, sometimes takes 2-3 days to grow 4%, and if you think conservative forex trading is unnecessary, you would end up like this guy who manage millions.
also, rule should indicate that if a continuous loss appeared 5 times in a roll, the fund should be returned to investor immediately without question. If you are managing own fund, that means stop trading immediately.
So i would like to know if any fund manager out there use this strict rules, after all we are our own fund manager. Newbie who sticks to this rule will avoid painful pitfalls, thank me later.
Even if he did trade with the 2% risk, ..he didn't exercise the risk by closing the order when the drawdown is more than 2%. He did eventually let it glide continuously without a clear boundary of acceptable DD. This is the issue with many traders, even if you observe in those signal providers, the poor subscribers followed the provider into MC hole. The bigger the account, the harder is it for the trader to accept defeat since the amount is rather large to lose.
This and last month in particular, lots ppl got hit especially those that don't believe or sticking strictly to their SL.