Advice on how to make 5%/month on $1 million

Heed this! The more you make (in reality or in unicorn land) more you risk! In the long term, you will face this! There is no way to get around this so wake the fuck up and smell the coffee! :)
I'm finding from experience, the longer I trade stocks, the smaller my position size and the more diversified I'm becoming. What in effect I now do is nibble into positions. Higher brokerage but it gives me time to suss out the strength of moves. Breakout trader.
 
Great article, but that guy runs a trading firm and has 30 years of experience. Trying to promise someone new to trading that they won’t even lose money, can do more damage than good.

his firm has 70 employees and qualifies for YPO: which means it has a certain payroll requirement and a certain revenue or enterprise value requirement. I think the min revenue is 15mm but in Austin it might be higher. With 70 employees he’s probably clearing 3mm/year himself at the minimum revenue.

2mm wasn’t play money for him but it wasn’t his life savings.

further, according to this family’s LinkedIn, they were early investors in airbnb. So they have that going for them.
 
You don't know the workings of a monthly fixed size trading account.
There is no account growth, business expense plus payroll is withdrawn as is any excess above fixed size. If necessary, replenished to the fixed size monthly.

And you're correct... no interest in "proving" anything to an anonymous typist on an anonymous forum on the Wild-West-Web. In fact, no interest in any situation outside of some sort of business dealings/reasons.

I am not in competition with any home-gamer or "professional". I have zero interest in governmental oversight, or customers, or even being recognized: Tiddlywinks who is fine with me and mine.

No, one can not read a "dummies" book and before lunch become a consistently profitable trader. You have to watch youtube vids for that.

It's just sad that so many people don't even consider possibilities.
You are trapped in what you believe to be true...

You don't need a vision when you have a tradition. --- T.D. Jakes
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Good thing about any business/ NO one can tell you how much you can earn.
AND really, who could have even guessed all the opportunity in burgers + energy drinks + bottled water / of all things ??
Having said that-- ever noticed this common pattern?? IBD founder noted new traders want too much, with to little work. Original poster asked some good specific questions , but 2 -3 hours a day work may disappoint anyone??
 
ever noticed this common pattern?? IBD founder noted new traders want too much, with to little work.

I saw earlier Bezos is stepping down and anointed some cloud computing guy as successor. I don't get it... I've been a customer/user of amzn products and services for years. I even have a prime membership! I deserve that position!! Bastards!

Original poster asked some good specific questions , but 2 -3 hours a day work may disappoint anyone??

Yup. In my original post to OP, I mentioned his constraints may be at odds with his desires.

Good thing about any business/ NO one can tell you how much you can earn.

Indeed. Barring size issues, day-trading is limited only by what the traded markets offer.
 

Seems like quite a bargain. But then again the best alpha I’ve come across has been had for free.

Paying for it, in many cases, makes it easier to hear it (for whatever reason.)

I suspect it might have something to do with cultural conditioning; ’you have to pay your dues’, ‘no pain no gain’ and/or ‘you get what you pay for.’

Thanks for the link, even though the bargain price has me skeptical, at least it can give access and insight into his perspective.
 
Would like to get some feedback on the following "not so hypothetical".

Consider the following constraints:
- U.S.-based brokerage account with $1 million in cash
- monthly target of 5%/month; this will be withdrawn, so account won't grow
- max trade limit of 50 trades/month
- ideally no more than 2-3 hours/day of watching/trading markets
- lowest risk to achieve the 5%; in other words, would rather have less risk than a return greater than 5%

How would you approach this?
what markets/instruments?
what trade sizes?
where to place stops and limits?
other thoughts?

Thank you for your time.

It can be done via options trading but you'll have to spend a lot of time managing your positions.
 
Give the money to me or to a charity, they'll end up in better hands than otherwise:D

Just asking these kind of questions is a sure sign that you have no clue about what you need to do to even keep these money.:banghead:
 
Would like to get some feedback on the following "not so hypothetical".

Consider the following constraints:
- U.S.-based brokerage account with $1 million in cash
- monthly target of 5%/month; this will be withdrawn, so account won't grow
- max trade limit of 50 trades/month
- ideally no more than 2-3 hours/day of watching/trading markets
- lowest risk to achieve the 5%; in other words, would rather have less risk than a return greater than 5%

How would you approach this?
what markets/instruments?
what trade sizes?
where to place stops and limits?
other thoughts?

Thank you for your time.
I've been making over 11% per month since June, 2019. All my trades were announced BEFORE I did them. This was not a simulation. I usually make only one trade (or none) per day. Most days, the trade is done about 8:00 AM, Pacific time. I have spreadsheets documenting the trades. I trade only broad-market ETFs, such as SPXL, TQQQ, SOXL, TNA, IWM, SOXL, NAIL, UDOW, etc. No individual stocks, no futures, no options, no shorts, no forex, no crypto, nothing fancy. Wait - Last year I did make three small trades in F (Ford). Those were the only exceptions, and those trades made only 7% for the entire year. Total number of trades last year was 117.
 
That guy is nuts. Anyone able to get 5%/month would simply borrow $billions from banks, investors and even countries, and pay them back 10%/year. They would be super excited to get 10% because they can’t be guaranteed that much anywhere.
While the guy making 5%/month would make $billions in a year, and wouldn’t even need a $million to start.
I could do it -with someone else's money - I've proved it year after year but I don't trade it as I have nobody to answer to
While when you do have a $million you should at least have basic education and know calculus.
 
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