Tell me your biggest win or loss

1shooter said:
You seem pretty cool, the worlds pretty rough and we all get a edge on us sometimes i get it.

The idea was suppose to see how people did it won or loss.

When people make informed decisions, i like to look at the genius behind the idea. When people make informed decisions and the market moves against them I would like to looks at why it moved against them. Some times the answers are not concrete and clear and we can chalk it up to that's how the cookie crumbles.

But i do appreciate your input lots of views on the same subject matter do make better informed decisions.
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heyy man, everyone has different ways they feel about trading and some people get sensitive to these sort of questions. I think its perfectly fine to see this forum as a "water-cooler" type of place.
 
1shooter said:
So what i would like to hear is your biggest wins or loses.
And tell me a bit about the time frame and how you figured out how to do it.

The idea is pretty simple you guys get to brag a bit.
And i get to dig a bit deeper in how you guys play the game.
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I only trade one thing. -- i'm not all over the place as some of the people here.
My biggest wins are over 100%, and my biggest losses are around 30'ish %, maybe 40'ish tops.
My biggest wins are not That rare, they kind of happen every two weeks or so.

o_O That is the extent of it, that I am willing to share. :finger:
 
1shooter said:
I suppose what i was looking for, is a situation like a guy on here posted.

(which i seen on here and just happened)

He shorted dollar tree, i looked at it and didn't see a pattern. Then i seen it drop like a anchor.

So i looked a bit deeper, they where on a thread the last quarter from dropping like a brick. ( i assume he lost on the bet maybe wrong) Surprise quarterly earnings had them receiving nice gains that contradicted the previous quarter. So when this qr came out shit went south he bet smart and cashed in.

Where the information is useful to how he figured it out. Like a puzzle piece.

Having a plan is great having more tools in your tool box is freaking awesome. So i am not looking for a overall plan. Just simply strategies that worked out for someone. And a big loss doesn't have to be realized. So you set a stop loss and pendulum swings hard the other way. You hit your stop loss not to bad but it keeps running the wrong direction. Did you figure out why or was it a crazy gamble to begin with?

Some thing more along those lines was the aim. I suppose i assumed people would be intuitive enough my mistake.
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I guess that was me huh?

Yeah, DLTR was like a Peter Lynch play, in reverse.

It was hyped non-stop by Cramer, the PE was too high, they just finished up absorbing the Family Dollar chain(lots of bad locations) and as always... no dividend. Both it and Dollar General have been on a rip for the last two months.... and I see way too many stores with not enough people in them to pay the bills.

I dunno, call it intuition derived from a myriad of factors, both specific to the stock and the markets in general.

As for biggest gain.... I bought a Company called MMWW, Metamore Worldwide (I think) back in the late '90s that I read about in a paid subscription newsletter published by Jonathan Steinberg (he later went on to start Wisdom Tree ETF's and is the husband of Maria Bartiloma.... but that was later) The guy had talent, I saw that early on and thats why I subscribed to his newsletter. Anyway, ole MMWW.... I bought 1000 shares for $3.50 a share and it creeped up slowly but surely... I was doing fine, and then one day I call telebroker to get a quote... and the SOB is $39! Yee-haw... I sold that day for like $33ish on the drop. I think PSIX bought them, thats what happened. Now they are both in some museum of worthless stock in Silicon Valley I suspect.

Biggest loss.... 2007.... $57,000 in one afternoon....a long f***cking story, ....not limited to me buying 1000 contracts of IWM Calls when I meant to buy Puts. I literally hit the wrong button at the wrong time and got trapped in a whirlpool going down.... I was in such a hurry.... I totally f**cked up. And it got worse from there. ;) A good "sit around the bar drinkin' story" to be sure for the gentleman that thanked you for your service. Although at the time... as you can imagine, it was very painful.

I love chess too, but I suspect you'd smoke me.
 
1shooter said:
So what i would like to hear is your biggest wins or loses. And tell me a bit about the time frame and how you figured out how to do it.

The idea is pretty simple you guys get to brag a bit. And i get to dig a bit deeper in how you guys play the game. I view it as a win win.
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I made about $6,000 when the Swissie revalued a few years ago. It was pure dumb luck. I just happened to get on the right side of the trade a minute before it happened.
 
I am only remember one great memory getting big profit on SnB intervention few years ago, I made over 100% profit only two hours, but my bigger loss if accumulated might more than 500$ more :D
 
Largest single trade wins so far is $32000. Last year I had two of these wins of ~$32k. Largest single trade loss is $16000. I do short term swing trading in leveraged index ETF's.
 
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