Day 8 - £30.42

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Home before 8pm is always so stunning, we went to dinner at 6 literally across the way, back at 7.40 just got showered and gonna chill til Love Island comes on. I feel very accomplished. Spent £30.13 at dinner including service charge, spent £12 at Tesco for bevs, plasters and toothpaste and I feel great.

£30 in my account, £37 on the way and I know I will be just fine until next week. On another note, trading was a mess today, took some really big buys, and had to leave it for the day because I was like £3k down, but was so busy with travelling and day to day stuff, just set my TP and was on my way and thankfully it hit and I'm clear and back in profit.

The main thing I need to focus on is my strategy moving forwards, I am glad to have a day like this though because it was going too well and I needed to hit a learning curve. I am still very interested in learning the basics, plus if I want to get a funded account they will have rules and I need to stick to them. Still lots to learn and that's okay, I feel very hopeful about the future.

- Girl in debt xo

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