Not really, but just by looking at THIS: ...I know I had decent six-figure days on both April 4th and April 11th, 2000. God I miss the good 'ol days! Edit: you can ignore the buy signal/sell signal snake-oil gibberish marring the chart (First one I found on the net). Just look at the bars. The range of the <b>day</b> is roughly equal to the range of <b>the entire year of 2005!</b>
I agree, some fantastic numbers here. I wish I would have started trading in 1998 instead of waiting til 2001, what kind of numbers would I be able to share? Seems like you are doing well! Continued succes samson! Mike
6 figures ? In a personal account ? I remember April 4 like it yesterday. Dow move like 1000 points intraday and nas was like 600. Hell the q'smoved like 15 % intraday. I was down 8 grand intraday and just kept buying and finished up about 10k. But from that point on I started shorting tech and just holding because if the market could fall that much intraday then that meant to me something was really screwed up witht he dynamics and we were heading much lower.
Apr 4 2000 is what i call SUPER TUESDAY....everyone on my desk had their best days ever.,..including my self the head trader at our firm was down 6 mil in futures only to close they day up 2 mil that day true story oh...for thread purposes...my personal acct +39,000 (super tuesday of course) -9500
So, not only you survived the crash but you got good $$ out of it. You dudes move some size... I never made more than $3500 in one daytrade and lost max. $3000. And those were the good times, I had to reduce size to survive, now Im moving 100-300 shares per trade.
anyway what matters is relative impact on portfolio. if you lost $10k but you have $10k, you're losing everything losing 1m for a guy trading with 50m could be get more headlines but is not such history for themselves