How much was your highest intraday trading profit?

[100mcxtips]

I really want to know the amount of profit you are making out of intraday trading.

 

[schweiz]

Oh boy...

We don't need exact amounts, you can give round figures, like 1 million, 2 million, 10 million...
Soon we will know the truth.
LOL.

 

[maxinger]

people getting interesting ...

better go by number of digits.
Is it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .... digits per day ?

Next question will be
HOW much $$$ have lost from trading so far?

 

[PistolPete]

 

[_eug_]

You should make this into an anonymous poll. I'm guessing most will be somewhere in the 4 digits if trading futures.

 

[bazaartrading]

Its totally depends upon what amount you invest, I am making profit of rupees 1000 max.

 

[d08]

$25k or so in a stock that was in the news. But what does it matter, it's how much you keep not how much you make in a day.

 

[beerntrading]

I think the interesting question would be how often do you have a biggest day ever, and how much larger is it than your previous? Doubling up an account once in 1987 is a heck of a lot less impressive than consistently setting new records for biggest day ever.

 

[_eug_]

$25k or so in a stock that was in the news. But what does it matter, it's how much you keep not how much you make in a day.

Ive also had a 5 figure gain on a stock that gapped up 30% on earnings. Not doing that anymore though.

 

[Robert Morse]

I really want to know the amount of profit you are making out of intraday trading.

My best day of trading was in August of 2007. My trading account was down $85,000 after an issues with my automated trading system-I was an option market maker, making markets in 12 options, one was RIMM. When my PC froze, the stock dropped 4 points and I bought 65,000 deltas with DITM calls and some puts when the stock was around 235ish. Basically, my markets went 5 points wide but all my markets did not move. 100D calls and puts were not moving with the stock.

I ended the day with a profit of $15,000 and my EOD postions looked like reversals on many strikes. (I had to hedge all the calls I bought and puts I sold with selling stock). It took about an hour for the stock to retrace the drop. When the interest and margin cost were all charged over 3 months, I broke even on this $17mm position. That was very scary vs the size of my account.

Sometimes our best days are avoiding bad situations. I have a few other days like this where I started the day with a large loss but recovered by staying in the game and not panicking.