What's your largest losing day in futures daytrading?

Holy F that's some serious numbers in this thread. I agree with deaddog that it would be interesting to know the account size, too, for context.

Personally, I've blown or eroded multiple small accounts over the years. Average account size would be around 10K.

Biggest losing day must have been 5-6K day trading ES futures which at the point probably was around half the account or so.

Zwaen said:
Options: -45k felt like a brick in my stomach :vomit: - and I was in a restaurant ;)

(best day +55k, didn't felt as good as I would have expected)
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Funny you should say that. I've never felt that the highs or joy from trading profits parallelled the lows experienced from the losses. Maybe I just haven't made enough, yet. And I'm not sure the monetary loss have been the worst. It's the failure itself, I suppose.

I had a trading buddy who eventually turned the corner and he did really well and also said that he just didn't experience that much joy from it.
 
i have multiple futures accounts. i’d say the largest balance account does very well, can carry multiple lots and multiple instruments days, weeks, months, quarters. average size gambling accounts don’t perform as well.
 
Handle123 said:
98% of my trading been my 401k. After over 45 years of trading, wins or losses, am numb.
Scalping best 150k, worst 1.3 million, I average down so 3 losing trades is huge, but in long run, systems do well.
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don’t think 401k has futures.
 
Oh sorry, I loss about $28,000 in 2023 with 2 trading systems. One in ES and the other in NQ .
They went straight to drawdown. Eventually pulled the plugged on them.

Trading systems are stupid and a waste of time to build. Easier to just click.
 
Laissez Faire said:
Holy F that's some serious numbers in this thread. I agree with deaddog that it would be interesting to know the account size, too, for context.

Personally, I've blown or eroded multiple small accounts over the years. Average account size would be around 10K.

Biggest losing day must have been 5-6K day trading ES futures which at the point probably was around half the account or so.



Funny you should say that. I've never felt that the highs or joy from trading profits parallelled the lows experienced from the losses. Maybe I just haven't made enough, yet. And I'm not sure the monetary loss have been the worst. It's the failure itself, I suppose.

I had a trading buddy who eventually turned the corner and he did really well and also said that he just didn't experience that much joy from it.
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I think it has to do with the simple psychological effect if you have the toy you lose interest, it’s about the hunt etc
For me personally this loss (and gain) were the result of idiotic gambling, let’s say somewhere between 30%-50% of the account. The result is that I do not judge people that fast anymore, since I used Kelly^4
The loss did create a scar of a few months
 
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