Making 20% Per Month From Stocks?

[ET70424]

Quote from killingtheta:

Swing trading or daytrading?

Swing trading that typically last for just a few days.

 

[rew]

Quote from Locutus:

Yeah I guess so. How long would it take to turn $10,000 into $10,000,000 at 20% compounded? Is that realistic?

3 years and 2 months. No, it is not realistic.

 

[ET70424]

Quote from J.Joseph:

I suppose if you're really good, and if the market cooperates, it could happen. You'd increase your chances by looking into 2x and 3x ETF's that have higher percentage movements. But just regular stocks? I can see 10%

I could probably do 20% if I was using 2x ETF's and a margin account. Without either one of those, though, 5%.

Why though? if you're doing day trading or swing trading, why not go 2 or 3 months to expiration to limit time decay and trade calls and puts?

See this link
http://alturl.com/tqpvu

 

[killingtheta]

Quote from ET70424:

Swing trading that typically last for just a few days.

In my opinion, I don't think it's possible to make 20% or even just 10% month after month swing trading with just simple margin. I do know that it is not impossible to average 5% per month with 2x leverage. Some months I make 8-9%, most months a little less than half that. But then again, thats just me. Maybe some others can.

 

[Bob111]

Quote from stock777:

if you are dumb enough to ask the question, you're too dumb to do it

yep..i have no problem making 10-20% on fixed amount of money. let say 30K. i can't do same on 10M account.once your account is big enough you will have liquidity problems. that's why it's unrealistic

 

[rew]

Quote from ET70424:

See this link
http://alturl.com/tqpvu

Yes, you'll see that that trading system has a record that spans one whole month. If you put 20 monkeys in front of trading screens there's an excellent chance that one of them will get 20% in a month. That tells you nothing about what the year to year performance will be.

 

[bone]

The gulf is wide between possible and probable.

 

[tradewiz50]

Quote from killingtheta:

Swing trading or daytrading?

Consistently making 15% per month swing trading earnings and a few day trades.

 

[mark-jacobs]

Quote from ET70424:

How many of you believe it is realistic to make 20% a month consistently trading stocks only? No options, futures. If not 20%, how about 10% per month or better, every month?

20% per month is 1% per day. That is easy is these highly volatile and unstable markets for 6 months. Just sell stocks of giant companies because there is high possibility of flash crash any day.

Google will be in serious trouble in coming days because everybody is eyeing Google. Sell Google stocks.

Bershire hathaway shares in some $113,200 per share. There should be selling in this company now. Sell berkshire.

 

[rew]

Quote from mark-jacobs:

20% per month is 1% per day. That is easy is these highly volatile and unstable markets for 6 months. Just sell stocks of giant companies because there is high possibility of flash crash any day.

Google will be in serious trouble in coming days because everybody is eyeing Google. Sell Google stocks.

Bershire hathaway shares in some $113,200 per share. There should be selling in this company now. Sell berkshire.

Do <i>you</i> have a track record spanning at least two years in which you have made 1% per trading day? I'd love to see the brokerage statements (you should have about 140 times as much capital as you started with). Are there <i>some</i> traders who can do that? Yes. But they are very, very rare.