What do you trade? With such small positions commissions (your broker) must be eating your lunch.
On the one hand, you must be a lucky genius. On the other hand, considering the size of your account, probably not.
-1.06% in February for me. Precious metals (AGQ, UGLD) and miners (NUGT) were a big drag (again). I made some money shorting natural gas (KOLD)...
Up 4.08% in January. Less than the market but it's tough to keep up when it's pushing higher every day. Gold miners (NUGT) caused me a lot of...
This is one of my IRA accounts. Buying occasional SDS/VXX/FAZ is as short I as I can go. Actually, I've only found a few quantifiable edges when...
No comments despite last Friday's low. Must finally be the time to buy.
VXX is a completely different story. It can only go to zero if VIX itself goes to zero which is not going to happen (unless the government buys...
Not an options question per se, but this is probably the best place to ask. How much of a daily drop in SPY would take XIV down to 0? I know...
Hm, I am pretty sure you've mentioned you traded vol. My question is do you worry about some kind of a freak/flash-crash event? are you flat eod?...
Clearly you've got to work on your drawdowns. 2.45% is just way too high. I wouldn't be comfortable with anything above 2% :) Also, stop having...
I had a disappointing December (-0.77%) but decent annual return (30% with a monthly sharpe of 2.0). I don't understand people's obsession...
That is very strange. Why don't you ask them and post their response here? In any case, you can try regular market orders with a start time at...
Why don't you read a book or something: http://www.amazon.com/Short-Term-Trading-Strategies-That/dp/0981923909
ARCA seems to be the only ECN that cancels limit orders that are too far off the market price. Since most ETFs are routed there you might end up...
Maybe on Wall Street. But they make money out of air on Wall st right? Everywhere else the starting salary is $75k and people make about $120k...
If I was making 100% a year with a 10% drawdown like you are, I wouldn't care if my sharpe ratio was 4 or -100 (unless it was a result of a couple...
How low is the liquidity in the stocks? If the spreads are > 1% wide it would be dumb to use market orders. I would keep limit orders until they...
Curious how you and other "5-6-digits-a-day" guys know that are you trading at capacity? Are you only using limit orders? With market orders...
Would you rather bring a foreigner to the US to do the job or send the job overseas? When I worked at Microsoft it struck me as odd how many...
Didn't feel right to be long SWHC today (whatever gun enthusiasts might say) but I put my order in last night for a one-day trade. Poor kids....
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