Swing Traders: What are your monthly returns?

Do you mean just b/c the numbers get astronomic after 2+ years, one shall not do it in the first place? What a sicko logic! :D My motto is: do it as long as it works. And it indeed works with small accounts. Here's a an example using $10k and 12 months. Is this unrealistic to achieve? DF means "doubling factor".
Code:
sim_acct_perf(sc=10000.00, pos_size=5.00%, PLpct_per_DT=1.3205, TD_per_month=20, add_sub_amt_per_month=0.00, months=12, fDbg=0):
TD/mo=20 PL%/TD=PL%/DT=1.320463 gross_PL%/mo=30.000000(Ann=2229.808514% DF=6.215814)
month          sc               ec               pl_tm  pl%_tm           pl_tot    pl%_tot   DF_acc  DF_pl%
  1         10000.00         13000.00          3000.00   30.00          3000.00      30.00    0.379   0.000
  2         13000.00         16900.00          3900.00   30.00          6900.00      69.00    0.757   1.202
  3         16900.00         21970.00          5070.00   30.00         11970.00     119.70    1.136   1.996
  4         21970.00         28561.00          6591.00   30.00         18561.00     185.61    1.514   2.629
  5         28561.00         37129.30          8568.30   30.00         27129.30     271.29    1.893   3.177
  6         37129.30         48268.09         11138.79   30.00         38268.09     382.68    2.271   3.673
  7         48268.09         62748.52         14480.43   30.00         52748.52     527.49    2.650   4.136
  8         62748.52         81573.07         18824.56   30.00         71573.07     715.73    3.028   4.576
  9         81573.07        106044.99         24471.92   30.00         96044.99     960.45    3.407   5.001
10        106044.99        137858.49         31813.50   30.00        127858.49    1278.58    3.785   5.413
11        137858.49        179216.04         41357.55   30.00        169216.04    1692.16    4.164   5.818
12        179216.04        232980.85         53764.81   30.00        222980.85    2229.81    4.542   6.216
Y/N? - Do you have a written set of rules that will produce the numbers outlined in your post?
 
You can make 2229% on a small account day trading futures in a good year using 100:1 leverage that is available to day traders.

But cant do it swing trading futures because you only get 20:1 leverage overnight. 200% in good year maybe, if you can handle the drawdowns.

Don't know about the kind of returns you can make swing trading options, I don't trade them.
 
Y/N? - Do you have a written set of rules that will produce the numbers outlined in your post?
Yes, of course I do.
But one last required component is not finished yet: the auto-trading part that is needed
for that many legs necessary for the said diversification.

But since we are here in the Technical Analysis forum, then I'm afraid most of the participants
won't understand options trading, nor options writing, as it's much different than TA people do,
and usually very few TA gets used in options trading.
 
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You can make 2229% on a small account day trading futures in a good year using 100:1 leverage that is available to day traders.

But cant do it swing trading futures because you only get 20:1 leverage overnight. 200% in good year maybe, if you can handle the drawdowns.

Don't know about the kind of returns you can make swing trading options, I don't trade them.
Math in an excel spreadsheet doesn't transpose to real trading results unfortunately.
 
You can make 2229% on a small account day trading futures in a good year using 100:1 leverage that is available to day traders.

But cant do it swing trading futures because you only get 20:1 leverage overnight. 200% in good year maybe, if you can handle the drawdowns.

Don't know about the kind of returns you can make swing trading options, I don't trade them.
My method is different. It's just options selling method where one holds it some weeks long, max 3 months...
 
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