50% Annual Returns

Discussion in 'Journals' started by alphastocks, Aug 29, 2006.

  1. Good point.

    A couple of issues, if you pay $5 per trade you are paying too much. Interactivebrokers charge $0.005 per share for a min of $1 per trade. I have been using them for many years and they are the best and cheapest broker I have come across. No reason to pay more.

    The system trades more than 4 trades per day on average, probably more like 6.

    Although you will do better than most professionals over a year the 50% return claim is based on past performance and does not guarantee those returns in the future.

    That said, with a $10,000 account your estimated com would be $6 *250 = $1,500 or 15% of the account. I would not trade the full system with less than this account size. It is very possible to only take half of the trades, but that would increase the risk and make it more volatile.
     
    #201     Oct 5, 2006
  2. STOCK TO BUY FOR OCT 06, 2006 (SIE))

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    STOCK TO SELL FOR OCT 06, 2006 (CMI) 7.9% est. RETURN

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    #202     Oct 5, 2006
  3. STOCK TO SHORT FOR OCT 06, 2006 (GE)

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    #203     Oct 5, 2006
  4. Closed out positions since I started posting on this forum.
     
    #204     Oct 5, 2006
  5. Thanks for the explanation. It makes a lot of sense.
     
    #205     Oct 6, 2006
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    #206     Oct 6, 2006
  7. NO NEW SHORT TRADES FOR OCT 10
     
    #207     Oct 6, 2006
  8. Closed out positions since I started posting on this forum.
     
    #208     Oct 6, 2006
  9. I think these next few of weeks could be tough for the market. I have reduced my long exposure and I also own several 118 puts on the DIA from a couple of days back.
     
    #209     Oct 6, 2006
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    STOCK TO SELL FOR OCT 10, 2006 (GMRK) 9.4% est. RETURN

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    STOCK TO SELL FOR OCT 10, 2006 (HYDL) -10.3% est. RETURN
     
    #210     Oct 9, 2006