Your results so far this year

[billyjoerob]

I've got some questions for the people who are more than 20% negative - what's your story? Is it one big loss or are you getting chopped around? I'm not picking on you, I blew up my first $50,000 by doubling down on losers. Just curious on what's holding you back.

 

[AJFCapital]

+ 23.2% ..... and slowly going down

 

[billyjoerob]

So about 1/3 negative, 1/3 between 0 and 20%, and 1/3 over 20%.

 

[Lethn]

I'm definitely in the negative right now but I'm certain I almost have the USD/CHF figured out so I should make it back we'll have to see whether my next trade plays out the way I expect though.

 

[TD80]

+35%. This low-vol grind-fest of a market reminds me of the mid 2000's, it almost brings a tear to my eye. QE has replaced MBS for this generation of market action.

For all the speculation on this site about PPT for the last decade, finally we have an actual full-on coordinated PPT action and all the conspiracy theorists seem to be MIA. Oh the irony.

 

[gambler2075]

Quote from the1:

Exactly. When I first started trading I was trading a small account and did over 1000% my first year. It was more like gambling than trading. In fact, it was gambling. Now that I trade for a living my goal is to do 20% per year consistently and it's pretty damn hard. There's a big difference between trading 10k and 10M.

Agreed... now that my account is ~500K$, I am finding it more difficult to replicate my returns...

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[matgallis]

Quote from gambler2075:

Agreed... now that my account is ~500K$, I am finding it more difficult to replicate my returns...

g

Shouldn't the percents be the same? Does having a decent capital position make it emotionally troublesome? Risk aversion perhaps?

 

[gambler2075]

Quote from matgallis:

Shouldn't the percents be the same? Does having a decent capital position make it emotionally troublesome? Risk aversion perhaps?

No, when you start trading 100K or larger positions, you can start running into liquidity problems, in that it takes a long time to accumulate your positions, and when you buy or sell, you move the price alot... hence you have to trade countertrend alot...

g

 

[trickshot]

Quote from billyjoerob:

I've been through this argument with Lescor and his 400% annual returns and $110,000 account. Why these gods of trading are trading with such paltry accounts is a continuing mystery . . . I guess the definition of a real trader is that you never make enough to trade your own money.

Some traders' edge involve trading in relatively illiquid markets/instruments, and most of these strategies aren't scaleable.

 

[Petsamo]

Quote from gambler2075:

Agreed... now that my account is ~500K$, I am finding it more difficult to replicate my returns...

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You'd be stupid to put 500K at the same amount of risk that you would put 10K.