1000% gains. Can I do it trading gold stocks?

 Week 2 - how's the trade going? OK, so let's see how we're doing with that initial trade we had with Kirkland Lake Gold. So to recap, we have $20k to spend, and the first tranche of that was spent on 100 Kirkland shares at $52.69 so a sum total of $5,269. Right, there's a fair few things going on with this chart so I'll step you through them to make it all clear.  The very last green bar on the right just above the diagonal blue line shows the price gain over the last week. I bought KLA at 52.69 and it's since gained $2.80 or 7.2%. That's reflected in that last green bar. I've included blue horizontal resistance lines in this chart. Resistance I'll come onto later but as the name suggests, this can potentially cause the price bar to bump its head and come down. On this occasion, it burst through this zone and is on its way to resistance zones 2 and 3. The verticle red and green bars below the chart reflect volume i.e. quantity of shares in this stoc...

  Hi everyone Welcome to my blog which centres around my passion for trading the stock markets, with my favourite asset classes being gold and silver mining stocks. From this passion I've decided to document a challenge and record it here on this blog site. The challenge is to grow a $20k investment into $200k. A 1000% gain. This is in Australian dollars and all on the Australian stock exchange.  Why have I decided to do this? The reason is simple. Late last year,  I created a demo account in an online brokerage called CMC markets. I was given a $100k pool of pretend money to buy and sell stocks and indexes ranging from the UK stockmarket index (FTSE), to the US Tech index (NASDAQ), gold, silver and even crypto stocks. With some well timed buying, selling (long & short) that $100k pool of money is currently sitting at $1.84m (as of 12/5/2021), all in the space of around 9 months. Close to a 2000% gain. What if I could do that with real money? It's worth a challenge, I...