What's your #trades & %return YTD?

What's your #trades & %return YTD?

  • <10 trades this year, < 10% return this year

    Votes: 5 5.4%

  • <10 trades, 10%-20% return

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • <10 trades, 20%+ return

    Votes: 4 4.3%

  • 10-20 trades, < 10% return

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • 10-20 trades, 10%-20% return

    Votes: 5 5.4%

  • 10-20 trades, 20%+ return

    Votes: 6 6.5%

  • 50+ trades, <10% return

    Votes: 11 12.0%

  • 50+ trades, 10-20% return

    Votes: 8 8.7%

  • 50+ trades , 20%+ return

    Votes: 35 38.0%

  • I have doubled my money (please explain)

    Votes: 16 17.4%
  • Total voters
    92
  • Poll closed .
Over 90% Return in 2006 currently (Jan 03 2006 percentage return =0%)

How? Sector rotating in and out of best 10-20 Industries.....Buy Low Sell High in Channels....The real Key is trying to sell when everybody who is late wants it and buy it back when it corrects.....

Oil goes up=Oil Sector

Oil goes down (Gets top heavy)= Airline, trucking sector
Overwieght Petroleum Sector
Long minerals (Gold/Silver/Copper/Ore) since 2005
Long Steel, Titanium, Metals since 2004
Long Ethanol (PEIX, MGPI, STKL)
Long Food (Agriculture, Bev Soft Drink)
Long Building (Cement)
Long Exchanges
Long Chemicals
Long Financials
Long Machinery (Const/Mining, Industrial)
Long Energy (Coal, Uranium, Alternative)
Long Liesure (Casinos, Game Makers)
Long Transportation (Rails, Eqp Mfg)
Long Tech (Semi)
Long Foriegn Utility
Long Foriegn Banks

Long US, China, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Australia, Africa, England, Germany, Switzerland, France, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, S. Korea

Day/Swing trade Hot moving Stocks in many other sectors.....Currently holdiong over 300 long positions...in 27 Countries...

$COSTAverageMAN

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Quote from lescor:

Your poll will be meaningless to a lot of the traders here because, as has been pointed out, they trade the firm's or clearning house's money. Their own cash is basically put up as collateral, and at some places, they don't put up any cash at all. If you make $20,000 on a basis of zero, what's your ROI?

Since you asked though, I did 75 trades and made about 25% return on my account equity TODAY.
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Given the preamble, was that 25% enough for a Cappucino at Starbucks?

There's guys at Aqueduct that made 1000% on thier account equity today.

And tommorow they will be borrowing carfare.
 
makes for an interesting insight into how scalable a trading style actually is.
i use leverage on my equity account of about 4-5 times, using most futures and forex gives you leverage of about 20 times.
If you are using a trading style / method / strategy that is consistently profitable with great returns eg; +30%, with small drawdowns and one that is scalable, why are there not more george soros etc; around. Hell if i could make 1000% i'd borrow as much as i can, do a few trades and then retire.
Percentage returns dont really apply to most scalpers and day traders, unless you are really looking to scale up and make serious actual cash returns. then you have to to work out if you can, and thats when percentages really matter.
 
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