What's your largest losing day in futures daytrading?

To be fair, it was not "my" trading, but it was my money. I had invested in 3 CTAs with programs. Two we selling naked puts. That day in 2018, the VX future traded from about 17 to 33 in 2 minutes from 4:13pm to 4:15 PM. A VIX ETN was shutting down and needed to buy back their VX futures. I heard about 90,000 at the market. It caused a large drop in all the indexes when futures started trading again. I close all those accounts and never invested in a naked option sellers again. Those CTAs before that, earned about 13% to 25% per year after fees.

NoahA said:
How does this compare with what your average winning day might be during this time period?
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greed keeps you in, pain gets you out.

now you know what your risk tolerance is.

$24,245 in nq and $20.687.5 in es, all were from 2022.
 
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It was so huge that
I didn't dare to count.
 
To give some context to your losses, how about stating them as a percentage of your trading capital.
It's hard to compare a 100k loss to a 3k loss without some context.
 
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