Bigwin stumbles - gets back up

Back on 8/4, I took some heat in an anonymous comment regarding my support for Zulutrade provider Bigwin. The criticism compared him to FxMarkets, a provider who whacked my account with a 600-pip loss (in almost no time) back on 1/5/2009.

Later it was revealed that FxMarkets was one and the same as about 1/2 dozen other providers on Zulutrade who were among the best performers and had the biggest followings. I found out the hard way that this provider tended to open many GBP/JPY positions, let them run into the red and then wait for them to come back. Check out my blog entry for 2/22/2009 for more info.

Anyway, I don't think the comparison is warranted and here's why.

Bigwin took a hit on the recent run in the GBP/USD up to 1.70. He went short at the breakout point at 1.67 and at one point he had almost 86 positions open at once which is clearly unrealistic. I stayed with Bigwin during that period with a 2-lot limit and a 180-pip stop thanks to feedback from Zulutrade provider Pro-B5.

The performance graph from above shows that at one point I was up almost 900 pips using Bigwin. His recent stumble cut those gains in half, yet he was able to come through the period and sustain and upward trajectory. Some of the gains he made on the rebound came from a later short he put on after I got stopped out of one of his earlier positions in that same run.

Of course, you could make the point that the only thing that bailed out Bigwin was the fact that the breakout failed, and GBP/USD moved back toward 1.67 and below in his favor.

In his performance last week, Bigwin managed to pull in 46-pips even though he didn't trade at all on Thursday and Friday 8/20 and 8/21. So for the time being, i'm still sticking with Bigwin with a 2-lot limit and 180-pip stop.

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