Editor’s Note: September 2026
This article was originally published when StormGain was an active cryptocurrency platform. StormGain is no longer operating at its former website, and the links and references to StormGain and other services that are no longer relevant have therefore been removed.
I’m keeping this article as a record of my experience and the cryptocurrency landscape at the time it was written. It should not be taken as a current recommendation or guide to using similar websites.
I just made a couple of trades over the last two days.
The first, on the 9th January, was a very straightfoward 30% gain on a $100 Bitcoin/USDT long trade with 10x leverage applied.
The second was a similar bid, $100 x 10 with the “Take Profit” option set to 30%, but it took longer to bring home as Bitcoin went into a steep decline from the $40,000 mark down to the upper $36k mark as I write this.
However, with $53,000 of demo money in the kitty, I felt pretty sanguine about setting the “Auto Invest” option to “ON” while leaving the “Stop Loss” “OFF”.
“Auto-Invest” Triggered!
I missed a chance to take an early $45 profit on the trade. I was only popping back onto Stormgain to check the situation from time to time and not staring at the charts all day. When I checked the price, it immediately declined, so I left the trade open and left it alone.
The last time I checked before going to bed, it had declined enough to trigger the “Auto Invest” and so $770 was not committed.
“Take Profits” Triggered!
When I checked the situation, first thing this morning, I saw that the trade had closed at the “Take Profit” (+30%) mark. BUT, instead of making the intended $30, the trade had yielded a $152 profit on a position that had grown, as the price declined, to $5,695.30 USDT, or just over 10% of my demo-trade capital as the “Auto Invest” kept pumping in more cash.
I feel fine with that as it seems to be bearing out the lessons I learnt in last week’s demo-trading experience.
So that is an average daily profit of $91 over the last two days, the bulk of which came from trading long in a market that turned out to be in decline.
Exact total profit so far = $3,236.18
Come along for the ride as I try to learn how to trade my way to a profit!
If you are an experienced trader, any advice would be welcome. Let me know where I’m going wrong, or post some tips in the comments below.
David Hurley
#InspiredFocus
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and this is certainly not financial advice. Simply the musings of a rookie trader playing with pretend money…
