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Now back to early ET where less whining and more gems.
I found a shorter version of that for you Handle...
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Now back to early ET where less whining and more gems.
If you start with 1000 and net 30% per trading month after losses and comm. in 18 months you will have close to $90,000.00 and in 19 months you will have about $116,000.00. That is, at the end of each month whatever your account balance is you need to make 30% on that new balance the succeeding month...etc
First month you gotta net $300.00 ($15.00 day net for 20.00 days)
Second month net $390.00 (roughly 19.50 per day)
Third month net $507.00 (25.35 day)
Fourth month net $659.9 (32.96 day)
Fifth month net $856.80 (42.84 day)
.......and so on each month. Making 30% in you account each month.
If you start with $1000.00 and net 20% per month on your account balance on the 25 month you would have 95,396.01.
Now if you start with an account bal of 2000 and make net after losses and commissions 10% per month on the account balance at the end of three years you will have 56,206. At the end of 3 years and six months $99,572. At the end of 4 years $176,398.00

Can't be greedy on a 1000 account now can we?but he wants it in a year, 12 months not 19 months![]()
Can't be greedy on a 1000 account now can we?![]()

$30,000.... not $300,000... slight difference.You can get tremendous leverage with options:
If in early August 2016 you purchased a 30 day to expiry DOTM put on BMY strike @ ~$70 when stock was @ ~$75.xx for a cost of ~$0.3x100=$33 per contract, $1000 would buy you ~30 contracts. BMY dropped to ~$60 a share by August 8, so the put would be worth ~$10 at expiration for a total profit of ~$300,000. All within a month. This is not an isolated event for biotech/drug companies. Other examples like BIIB, JUNO... went through the same gyrations.
If you have the insights and understand the biotech space, it is not gambling but if you don't you are gambling.

Sorry. My mistake. Thanks for checking.$30,000.... not $300,000... slight difference.![]()

Recession, did you know that folks who take short positions in March YM would need to cover that and then short June in order to still be short YM?need to get lucky on an option play that yields 10000%