heyy man, everyone has different ways they feel about trading and some people get sensitive to these sort of questions. I think its perfectly fine to see this forum as a "water-cooler" type of place.
I only trade one thing. -- i'm not all over the place as some of the people here. My biggest wins are over 100%, and my biggest losses are around 30'ish %, maybe 40'ish tops. My biggest wins are not That rare, they kind of happen every two weeks or so. That is the extent of it, that I am willing to share.
I guess that was me huh? Yeah, DLTR was like a Peter Lynch play, in reverse. It was hyped non-stop by Cramer, the PE was too high, they just finished up absorbing the Family Dollar chain(lots of bad locations) and as always... no dividend. Both it and Dollar General have been on a rip for the last two months.... and I see way too many stores with not enough people in them to pay the bills. I dunno, call it intuition derived from a myriad of factors, both specific to the stock and the markets in general. As for biggest gain.... I bought a Company called MMWW, Metamore Worldwide (I think) back in the late '90s that I read about in a paid subscription newsletter published by Jonathan Steinberg (he later went on to start Wisdom Tree ETF's and is the husband of Maria Bartiloma.... but that was later) The guy had talent, I saw that early on and thats why I subscribed to his newsletter. Anyway, ole MMWW.... I bought 1000 shares for $3.50 a share and it creeped up slowly but surely... I was doing fine, and then one day I call telebroker to get a quote... and the SOB is $39! Yee-haw... I sold that day for like $33ish on the drop. I think PSIX bought them, thats what happened. Now they are both in some museum of worthless stock in Silicon Valley I suspect. Biggest loss.... 2007.... $57,000 in one afternoon....a long f***cking story, ....not limited to me buying 1000 contracts of IWM Calls when I meant to buy Puts. I literally hit the wrong button at the wrong time and got trapped in a whirlpool going down.... I was in such a hurry.... I totally f**cked up. And it got worse from there. A good "sit around the bar drinkin' story" to be sure for the gentleman that thanked you for your service. Although at the time... as you can imagine, it was very painful. I love chess too, but I suspect you'd smoke me.
I made about $6,000 when the Swissie revalued a few years ago. It was pure dumb luck. I just happened to get on the right side of the trade a minute before it happened.
I am only remember one great memory getting big profit on SnB intervention few years ago, I made over 100% profit only two hours, but my bigger loss if accumulated might more than 500$ more
Largest single trade wins so far is $32000. Last year I had two of these wins of ~$32k. Largest single trade loss is $16000. I do short term swing trading in leveraged index ETF's.
===Tell me your biggest win or loss=== "Maybe I should also give you the key from the flat where the money is kept?" (c)