Is it possible to make 5% a month in stocks and ETFs ?

schweiz said:
He is at least postings things that are mostly experienced by losers.
Nothing is possible, especially nothing that HE cannot achieve. Thats seems to be his POV.

If he would be a very successful trader he would be fulltime trader and not run his business anymore.

I agree that things can/are very difficult, but they are not impossible. The result of an "average trader" (which is the average of traders who do worse but also from traders who do better, proves already that some traders do better) can not be projected to one specific person and taken for 100% as the only truth for that person.
All successful people are above average in what they excel in. There are thousands of samples around the world. Maybe Sig himself is above average in his business, so following his logic he is in that case doing something that according to him he should never have done, as the "average" businessman would not succeed in what he achieved. Success equals/needs being above average.

If nobody would do better then the average person, each person would have the same score, as that average is the sum of returns from all traders divided by the number of traders. If nobody ever goes above the average, nobody can go below the average too at the same time as otherwise the calculation would give a lower average. And at that point there would again be traders above average.

I don't like people who discourage others not to do this or that. Better would be to tell them it is difficult, or even very difficult, but to tell it is unrealistic is trying to keep them poor as you envy them if ever they would be more successful then yourself.
I hope my children will be more successful in trading then myself. It would make me a happier father.
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I just don't find that many traders, even the Market Wizards, gained 60% year over year, every year, consistently. If they could not do it consistently, then they are not making 60% gain.
 
element said:
Hi Guys,

Is it possible to make 5% a month trading (swing) stocks and ETFs ?

Thank you
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possible,

but the probability of that possibility depends on many factors, most of which are out of reach not only for the average folks but even for the wall-street insiders, except for the luck of course... :)
 
After a bit of digging around...

Sig said:
Different era...just out of curiosity how are Trout Trading funds doing today?
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Well, his money was put in the Tewksbury Investment Fund, after he closed shop, handled by Matthew Tewksbury. Matthew earned 48MM in 2003 so I guess they were still doing good. Their returns for the last few years:

http://www.inschinvest.com/redirect.php?cid=amFuMjAxOHNlbmRvdXQ=&lid=118&uid=RON4059

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/private-sector-oh-to-be-rich-and-retire-at-40.html

And going back to our earlier conversation, Monroe moved his firm to Bermuda in the 90s and took Irish citizenship...
 
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Pekelo said:
After a bit of digging around...



Well, his money was put in the Tewksbury Investment Fund, after he closed shop, handled by Matthew Tewksbury. Matthew earned 48MM in 2003 so I guess they were still doing good. Their returns for the last few years:

file:///C:/Users/thinkpad/Downloads/TheGoodtheBadandtheUgly-TheSequel.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/private-sector-oh-to-be-rich-and-retire-at-40.html

And going back to our earlier conversation, Monroe moved his firm to Bermuda in the 90s and took Irish citizenship...
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The first link you provided was to your drive but I'm actually curious to see it, do you mind reposting?
 
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