How Much Should A Trader Make?

[overload]

As a trader, per year, what is your goal to make (percentage-wise)?

10%?

20%?

50%

100%

More than 100%?

How much should a trader expect to earn a year %-wise?

-ol

 

[Gordon Gekko]

i just made over 9% in 3 days.

now i know 3 days doesn't necessarily mean much, but at year end i may reveal my year result and shock ET.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from overload:

As a trader, per year, what is your goal to make (percentage-wise)?

10%?

20%?

50%

100%

More than 100%?

How much should a trader expect to earn a year %-wise?

-ol

Hi Overload,

This questions has been asked and answered many other times...

in many different ways.

Best to use ET search menu in the upper right corner to read prior conversations about this...

For example...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25232

NihabaAshi

 

[ArchAngel]

Quote from overload:
How Much Should A Trader Make?

Is this like the old woodchuck tongue twister??

How much loot can a trader make trading? He'd make all the loot that a trader would make trading, if a trader could trade like a trader who knew how to trade.

 

[metooxx]

All the money in the world ...

 

[cdbern]

Quote from ArchAngel:

Is this like the old woodchuck tongue twister??

How much loot can a trader make trading? He'd make all the loot that a trader would make trading, if a trader could trade like a trader who knew how to trade.

Or, like asking how big is a rock

 

[nkhoi]

Quote from cdbern:

Or, like asking how big is a rock

depending on where it lands?

 

[Nana Trader]

Quote from overload:

As a trader, per year, what is your goal to make (percentage-wise)?

10%?
20%?
50%
100%

More than 100%?

How much should a trader expect to earn a year %-wise?

-ol

It depends how greedy you are? more greed, more risk, more
reward.

You living style and where you live also plays a major rule here

 

[Nana Trader]

Generally, think if you can make return of 1% average per day,
you end up with around 250% per year (not compounded)
which is a maximum i expect in future

 

[candletrader]

I would say that if you are consistently making 35% a year on unmargined capital, you are a great trader... consistently inflated triple figure % returns are simply not feasible, in my view... that it not to say that the occasional home run year is not possible, cos I have myself done 200%+ in a few years... but we are talking the long-run average here...

Assuming that most traders are using around 2:1 margin, I would say a 70% return on capital per year (consistently), assuming such margin, is fantastic...

e.g. Starting balance $50k, trading on 2:1 margin, getting 35% on your own capital and 70% on margin... and also reinvesting (a simplistic assumption, I know)...

At end of 10 years $50,000*(1.7^10) = $10 million...