Robert Weinstein feels your pain this week: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126492&perpage=6&pagenumber=204
Good trader averages about 25-35% of annual return. That's based on the 12-15% average passive historical market performance.
Neke, Congratulations for the year. I know you don't quite reach your goal, but how many people can reach that goal? You should be happy with the result and be proud of yourself. I am looking forward to seeing your new thread next year. I don't post often, but your thread is the only one I check every Friday. BTW, I bought SNDK puts today. Just can't believe nobody wants to take the profit at this point.
... I have very much enjoyed your threads the past two years. Your results are outstanding... keep "aiming high", cut your losers every day and I bet you continue to enjoy 50-200% gains for the rest of your life. Merry Christmas!!! Be grateful for what you have achieved and go get'em in 2010. Joe
Red brings up a good point, and after a review of the last 5 pages or so, a clean-up was necessary. I don't think anybody intended to hijack the thread, but that's exactly what a few people ended up doing. I apologize in advance if your post(s) got caught up in the sweep, but there was an awful lot of off-topic noise that needed to be removed so that we could return the thread to Neke.
I though it would be fun to post a graph of neke's compounded returns, based on weekly percentages, from 2008 to 2009. Initial account value was 100,000. Amazing job Neke! Enjoy!
Good job, though your 2008 graph looks much "better" than I have! Seems to suggest I hit 1million, which is not the case. Here is my own graph compiled from the weekly percentages.