Maximum Account Size For These Kind of Returns?

Discussion in 'Index Futures' started by Gooby, Apr 5, 2016.

  1. dartmus

    dartmus

    then split the account in 2 and run them up again. split, split, split... no limits! :)
     
    #11     Apr 5, 2016
  2. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Anyone making those kind of returns has thrown caution to the wind for the most part and in general, will not last a long time in this business.
     
    #12     Apr 5, 2016
  3. That sounds like a use of leverage. Be careful to not "blow out" the account as, if one's account balance goes below "0" mark to market and one can't make up the "deficit", then there are consequences ...
     
    #13     Apr 5, 2016
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  4. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Exactly.
     
    #14     Apr 5, 2016
  5. Let me preface my remarks by stating that I have never had even a single year with even close to those returns. That said, in all likelihood, you will probably simply have a year or years where your return is dramatically lower well before your size gets in the way if you are trading markets that offer decent liquidity. There are very few traders who can put together back to back years where they do anywhere close to those returns.
     
    #15     Apr 5, 2016
  6. Redneck

    Redneck


    In stocks anyway - can't speak for futures


    RN
     
    #16     Apr 5, 2016
  7. ??? What is your problem??? He never claimed to make 300% a year or even asked how to make 300% a year. He simply asked if I started with 25K and could make 300% a year when would I run into liquidity problems?

    gosh darn, get a life
     
    #17     Apr 5, 2016
  8. Visaria

    Visaria

    i'm sure i read that T Boone Pickens started with about a billion dollars one year and made it into 5 billion by the end of the year.
     
    #18     Apr 5, 2016
  9. But did he take that 5 billion and turn it into 20 or 25 Billion in the following 12 months?
     
    #19     Apr 5, 2016
  10. Visaria

    Visaria

    No, i think he lost quite a bit of it the following year...
     
    #20     Apr 5, 2016