Oh boy... We don't need exact amounts, you can give round figures, like 1 million, 2 million, 10 million... Soon we will know the truth. LOL.
people getting interesting ... better go by number of digits. Is it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .... digits per day ? Next question will be HOW much $$$ have lost from trading so far?
You should make this into an anonymous poll. I'm guessing most will be somewhere in the 4 digits if trading futures.
$25k or so in a stock that was in the news. But what does it matter, it's how much you keep not how much you make in a day.
I think the interesting question would be how often do you have a biggest day ever, and how much larger is it than your previous? Doubling up an account once in 1987 is a heck of a lot less impressive than consistently setting new records for biggest day ever.
Ive also had a 5 figure gain on a stock that gapped up 30% on earnings. Not doing that anymore though.
My best day of trading was in August of 2007. My trading account was down $85,000 after an issues with my automated trading system-I was an option market maker, making markets in 12 options, one was RIMM. When my PC froze, the stock dropped 4 points and I bought 65,000 deltas with DITM calls and some puts when the stock was around 235ish. Basically, my markets went 5 points wide but all my markets did not move. 100D calls and puts were not moving with the stock. I ended the day with a profit of $15,000 and my EOD postions looked like reversals on many strikes. (I had to hedge all the calls I bought and puts I sold with selling stock). It took about an hour for the stock to retrace the drop. When the interest and margin cost were all charged over 3 months, I broke even on this $17mm position. That was very scary vs the size of my account. Sometimes our best days are avoiding bad situations. I have a few other days like this where I started the day with a large loss but recovered by staying in the game and not panicking.