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I'm always sweeping profits from my account so I'm not sure how to calculate. If I took an average balance then I'm up around 500-600% this year.

Had some fun with the memes today. I was late to the party because I was researching a new trading strat and not paying attention. Cost me some gains, but still a decent day. The white positions are overnights just in case these go nuts.

Yes, that was a decent drawdown. If you are a profitable trader you should always be pushing yourself, which means technically you should also have bigger and bigger drawdowns over time. Gotta risk $$ to make $$$.

A newbie should not be shorting microcap flyers. 9/10 times you will make a little, and 1/10 times you lose everything.

I had about a $110k drawdown during the last week of July, then took a vacation...and now I'm back to account highs. One step back, one step forward in this case. The vaxx's were an extremely difficult setup so I'm happy to wipe out the losses and move on. They should still be good trading...

The past few weeks, yes...today, no. Actually ended the day +$68k after a few other trades didn't work out.

Wednesday update. The past few weeks have been slow and difficult as I couldn't find any good winners, and I was fighting the vaxx stocks with this absurd move. Feels like Hwang/VIAC all over again. When they couldn't break down on Friday, I hoped that they could stay up through Wed (today)...

This week M-Th were really boring, and I pressed too hard on Friday. Part of the Friday loss was MRNA puts that I tried multiple times throughout the day and it never pulled back. I don't mind the MRNA losses because the r:r was there, but I shouldn't have bothered trying to buy MSFT/AAPL puts...

Of the pro traders I know, none of us would even blink at a $10k day...it's a rounding error. While I understand the point of your OP post, you kind of threw yourself to the wolves. I'd suggest throwing your trades into Traderview to give us some stats on your performance. It's super easy and...

Are you still trading?

Meaning LS customers get a promotional rate?

Never heard of it before today. I use IEX smart router for taking, which isn't free but you get the fills.

@Robert Morse...curious since LS has Warrior Trading on your website here did you guys verify his results? He's one of the educators out there that this discussion applies to.

https://www.thelampost.com/routing-and-execution

The ideal teacher would be one that posts verified results that they are making a living trading, all while being able to teach. The next best is someone who is clearly making $$$ and a good educator (such as Mark Minervini, Scott Redler, Kristjan Kullamagi), but not necessarily posting...

Their pricing structure has 0.25 for >50k now, but when I signed up years ago it was negotiated.

Tuesday update. Today was another slow-ish day, but there was a nice setup in MRNA. I'm sure a lot of guys got paid today in this one. I'm holding the USO overnight, hoping for a gap to sell into tomorrow morning. That's just a simple reversion bounce play. FWIW I'm hoping for another leg...

20-50k contracts, depends a lot on market volatility

Depends what kind of stocks you trade. Some of my best trades over the past year were contracts that barely traded day-to-day, and I was 80%+ of the volume. Didn't matter though because when you are right and the stock moves, there will always be hft ready to fill you if you are just slightly...

I'll generally only trade equities if the options aren't a possibility. The leverage that options provide suit my trading style much better. I'm able to win big win I'm right, and risk is 100% defined so I know exactly how hard I can press.