daytrading profits --- how many cents per trade is realistic

Hi all,

for those who trade large amounts of stock each day:
what is your average profit in cents per trade per share ?

say you trade 10,000 shares a day and gring out a 500$, thats
50,000cents/10,000= 5 cents/share/trade

i am inferring from what Don Bright says that these days one should not expect much more than 1 or 2 cents.

would be nice to have a tally

 

Where'd Don Bright say that?

 

I agree with Don that 1-2 cents is a decent average. Better days can be 5-10 cents but that's tough to average.

 

think averaging half a cent on automation is very good. but usually when i'm trading pairs i see 3 cents plus. but then again very hard to be consistent.

 

How many cents does it go against you before you bail out ?

If you scalp for 3 cents, and usually hang on to 1 dollar in the red, then it should take about 30 winning trades to equal one bad trade.

 

i make 1 trade a day for 1-4 different diffrent stocks

i set a .25-.30 cent goal with a .10 cent stop

 

Cents per share does not equal cents per trade. Re-read the first post and do the calculation.

 

The attitude is not needed.

The thread topic asks per trade.

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Considering 66 % voted over 5 cents, i doubt i am the only one who misread the question.


For me avaraged out is about 1-3 cents

 

No attitude...just to the point. Many traders don't understand this calculation, so you were one of many who didn't respond correctly to the survey.

Cent per share profit:

=$Profit/#Shares

eg. if you make $1000 on 30,000 shares:

1000/30000=3.3 cps profit

This is much different than asking how many cents you average per trade which does not take into account volume.

 

This poll is useless since the wording of the poll goes against the intent as described by the creator, which is cents per share. The results confirm this.

There should not be many (if any) active daytraders able to achieve > 3 cents avg. If you are active and can achieve >1.5 avg cents per share than you would be a superstar. If 75% of the respondants think that 5 cents or higher is realistic than they are either non-traders or very dumb traders.