Trader P/L 2012

Another good day!
+$98

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puahah! I kept my profits!
I went from $400 to $500, then to -$600 briefly on one trade. That last trade ended up in ~$56 profit. Last exit at 04:12 eastern time. hah!

Daily Total: $556
Weekly Total: same
Haven't traded since last Thursday so I have nothing to report.
 

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Having personal interaction with profitable traders has been vital to my growth as a trader. Simply knowing that profits are being made by retail traders had a profoundly complex effect. More than once, has the sense of reality in trading helped me to become profitable.

I should know this by now but I never paid much attention. What is a blotter? Is it the pics that are shown on the posts with which the link doesn't need to be clicked?


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if you do not like the parameters of a thread that has gone on for years...start your own that fits your criteria. et can be a free for all with such incredible nonsense, ego's, lies..etc..here it is so much cleaner. the point is to show "trader p/l" with a blotter.

i really do not think i am being harsh in my opinion here. imo, it's important for the guys who do earn to show that money can be made in trading to those who may be struggling and new.

here is my month to date (after my -$99,000 loss to rally)

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What sort of trading strategies do retail traders who are profitable tend to employ? I just get the feeling most are just spreaders or long/short basket traders.

For momentum type trades the retail slippage/execution quality is just so poor these days.
 
I'm at work so I'm posting a pic of my statement in a different format.

$70. Called it a short day due to low activity and having to rest before work.

$626 weekly total
 

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ok..today was +$34,000

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friday not posted was -5k


i will post 2012 stats when ib releases them...but suffice to say dollar wise it was a good year; even with the poor last quarter.
 
My performance for 2012. It was a pretty hard year. In the context of the max. drawdown, the return is clearly not good enough. I did make my minimum return goal (40%) but that's about it. This one's dedicated to our buddy marketsurfer, "Yes we can".

I echo the thoughts of sellindexvol66, paper traders and posters who just write some numbers should post in a separate thread - a blotter or image verification is necessary.
Oddly enough, ET mods often clean up some threads very aggressively (Neke's journal comes to mind), yet ignore other threads.

Thankfully the holidays are over and we can continue with the regular programming!
 

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Echo the sentiment of previous posters...this was a pretty tough year for the most part. Luckily, there were a couple of 'bonus' days in there (i.e. Knight blowoup, ETN/CBE closing) to bring it up to good level.

Year: $534,995.12
Best Day: $158,205.79
Worst Day: -26,260.46
Best Month: $165,163.86
Worst Month: -$12,948.12

No statistics or returns apply for this b/c its a prop account. Maintenance equity is between $50-75k.

2nd half of the year picked up a lot. Most, great days/months were in 2nd half. Overall, a lot more big losing days to counter less great big winning days than previous years.

Looking forward to seeing some other numbers and to a great 2013.
 

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