Recent content by JoshM

Lol really? So you and everyone else in the industry trade purely for the strategy and not money? I'll bet no. Talking returns is by no means taboo in trading nor in any business for that matter. Sure, strategy and other aspects are important but everything comes down to the bottom line. And...

You make good points. Consecutive losses even while having positive expectancy would certainly hurt someone using levered assets. However, using proper risk management can certainly help to mitigate that, especially if you only take trades within certain risk parameters and are very disciplined...

Yes, I will agree with you there. Once one's account size gets to a certain limit 100%+ returns consistently would be ridiculously difficult. I mainly wrote this post though because it seems to me that the financial world tells everyone that a 10% return consistently is like all you can expect...

Am I the only one that thinks that people who sometimes harp about 100-300% yearly returns as "nearly impossible" are sometimes just a tad ignorant or pessimistic? Yes, don't get me wrong it's pretty difficult to do with a huge account, but when thinking about the assets being traded it really...