I made over $25,000 in the month of May. $13,000 came in two trading days. That's not a daily average, just a good couple of days shorting. I gave some back, but I finished the month up just a bit under $29,000 Gross (after fees). Close to 9%. At the end of two quarters, I'm up over 30% not including June's performance. I agree though, I'm a small fry compared to a LOT of the guys trading on ET. Maybe $1-$1,000; $1,001-$10,000; $10,001-$25,000; $25,001-$50,000; $50,001-$100,000,000,000 would better suit the ET polls. Keep it more realistic. Percentages are fine, but a LOT of traders on ET apparently have unlimited BP at their Prop Firms so Percentages don't work for them...
Hehe, I didn't believe the polls would trigger the "big dogs" replies I don't believe I'm mentally ready to increase my size to handle positions that are thousands of shares yet. Good to know a lot of ET'ers are brining in more than 25k though, I just wasn't expecting the polls to reflect many of the bigger traders. If I remember, at the end of the year I'll do another poll. It will better reflect the possible different incomes. Exactly, that is why I find precentages useless. We'd have to know how much money they were using. When I'm ready to move to thousands of shares per traes, then I will have the BP available because I'm slowly working my way up. I only leave 1k in my account and sweep anything above, so keeping track is kind of a pain. That is why I posted just pure dollar amount, because it's more realistic. If you are trading with 10 million, and are happy to make 50k a year, and make a horrible % return, it doesn't matter as long as they make what they aimed for. Then again, I'm not yet completely money hungry, and am still taking slow to learn. Consistency is key.
update.....hoping that i can break 500k by the end of the yr, only thing i'm lacking is the hunger to excel that i had at the beginning of the yr, hopefully it will start to comeback soon <img src="http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5247/dia001nc6.jpg">