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Obviously, it all comes down to your own account size: if you have big enough capital and are successful enough, so you can confidently earn your living with purely trading, then it's a completely different story. But if you have, say 100k and earn consistently 20% a year then that's still...

What's so stupid about that? :) yeah, i figured it was a long time ago. Things have changed quite a bit. So has trading.

The same way you are jumping into conclusions here? I was just asking. And as you see, even you "just needed a good starting capital"...so you still preferred to take that journey EVEN THOUGH you are SO different with your goals :) Usually when people are good at something what they do, they...

hmm, that's pretty interesting...I'll think about that.

Is that how you all calculate returns? Do you even know what Sharpe is? I have a tendency of talking nonsense, i know. So, i won't get deeper into that... But, just for fun - why don't you show me your trading results :)

That's nice and all, but...you don't. Market has an "upside ceiling" on alpha. The fact that someone thinks it's possible tells a lot about that someone. Sure, jackpots happen every day everywhere...but be consistent...especially when...information leaks... Where are you getting that 200% in 2...

I'm not talking about most, i'm talking about this specific example. Most traders can't trade anyway. If you make 200% with 20x lev, means you're making 10% with no lev. If you're trading SP500 index, you don't have a scalability issue with a 100M account. I guess we're talking about...

Interesting. So, you're returns are not noticed by your broker? Why, tho? This information is always exploited. Either someone trades before you or after you based on your actions. If you leverage down to 1:1'ish, you could easily pull a 20% yearly return, i suppose? You'd be the best fund...

can i ask you what brokerage was that?

Exactly. I don't agree with this but that's a whole different topic which needs a new place (and time)

You know Self, A very smart guy used to tell me: "You're only as good as you are, not as good you think you are."

My post wasn't abotu guarantees. Those are investors EXPECTATIONS. And then the game begins whether you can convince them to meet those expectations.

THAT sentence, ladies and gentelmen, pretty much concludes everything: 1) high Sharpe 2) non correlated to market 3) total return beating SP500 earnings yield+nominal growth on average long term that's exactly what investors want from you. You can just call it Alpha. If you don't have alpha...

it's not so much about time as it is about trade count. Time is different for different traders. Some make 1M trades during a year, some make maybe 12 only.

Maybe. Anyways, thanks for being nice about the whole way. Don't get a lot of that in social media. Well, things sometimes need to get refreshed. A lot of folks weren't in the trading world 10 years ago. In fact, "thanks" to covid and the RobinHood's of the world, we've had exponential growth...

what asset? Stock indexes? SP500?

Yep, should :) But 99,99% can't.

Your example is a perfect pass to that exam. Your draw (assuming that you didn't have a higher open DD any time at that period) is very well contained given the profits you make. All you have to do is just cut your position size in half (so everything is twice the size of those numbers) and...

doesn't matter if they play the margin game or the demo game. The idea is that theoretically you have 100k account with a -3% open draw limit. That percentage isn't even important, it can be 10 or 20%. The idea is that they wanna see if you can make (i'm guessing) 3:1 return to open risk, that's...

they are accepting DD. Isn't it -4% for the 50k account and -3% for the 100k account? I'm looking at Topstep page. I believe Earn2Trade has smth similar. They just want to see if you can beat the DD and by how much, that's it. If you're making 30% a year but had an open (or realized) draw of...