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"Here fishy-fishy". Can Trump keep the markets up until the 2020 election with trade jawboning? So longs as the algos keep storming the market on his every word about trade, perhaps.

Some clown college is now offering a degree in "Social Justice". Seriously.

When the LLC pays you salary or pays you other taxable distributions... that's when you need be concerned about quarterly estimates. Ideally you would not take salary or any other distribution until year-end... then make your annual tax estimate by the 4th quarter tax date.

Lucky you. Makes all us Yanks wish we lived in the UK.

Regarding gains/losses in the LLC... those won't be reported until after year end. The LLC manager will not be paying quarterly estimates on behalf of the LLC. Each individual investor will pay his own after year end. No quarterly estimates unless there were taxable distributions during the...

Ilhan Omar Demands UN Take Control of US Borders in Mirror of European Migrant Crisis https://www.infowars.com/ilhan-omar-demands-un-take-control-of-us-borders-in-mirror-of-european-migrant-crisis/ The nerve of that bitch!

Right. If you're a trader/investor, what really matters is the total return on your capital/net worth.

Factor THAT into your "average annual return". :)

I don't think there is anything "easy" about either of them.

True that. Most of what one trader decries as "untradable chop" is mostly tradable by someone with better experience. I only see chop where the reversals are too fast, whippy and large to cope with for me.

Ditto.

"...For now, Trump is enjoying an S&P that remains just a few percent below its all time highs. But what happens once algos realize that Trump will say any lie just to push risk assets higher? And is that why bond yields continue to grind to new all time lows, because while stocks may be fooled...

Realistic expectations.... Years ago I came across some research on 40,000 money managers. Bottom Line... <.1% had returns greater than 30%/year for 10 years, audited. (Returns for money managers today are MUCH lower than then.) As a day-trader, you have the opportunity to do better than...

Some truth in that.

Like I said. "Account size" isn't relevant (unless your capital is your trading account). The ONLY thing that matters in trading is the total return on your capital... that and capital preservation, of course.

Uh, no. What you have in your "trading account" is not relevant. What percentage of your CAPITAL account is what matters. Example.... If my "trading account" goes from $10K to $20K, I've added "100%". Whoopie! But if my CAPITAL is $100K, I've added only 10% to my capital. Nothing wrong...

True but that almost always goes with "size" to some degree. (Often when we say "point" we mean percent. But a 1/2 point slip in the ES is only .0166%. of the notional value.) That's what the DOM is revealing at this time. I've seen other times where there were >1000 bid/offered at each...

You can use whatever leverage you want up to the margin requirements of the contract. I mentioned "200 lots" as a size one could negotiate the bid/ask DOM with minimal slippage. You could do a 1000 lot trade ($150MM notional) right now with only about 1/2 point slippage on the entire trade.

You can day trade stock index futures. In the ES, you can trade 200 lots (~$30 MM value) with minimal slippage. Lots of room for day traders up to let's say, $100MM... and ET ain't in that league just yet. :)

There aren't any "$Billionaire day traders" for several reasons, not the least of which is that $1B is too much to logistically trade. With enough experience, the market will allow you to make a "good" return fairly easily. But if you want to make a BIG return, that's different. You have to...