seriously?, paper traders, posting their results?, wow, that must be desperate, as well as self defeating, what with this is an honesty thread and whatever is reported, has no correlation to reality, other than to one's self....
I guess u did not run through this thread last half of yr....lots of nonsense that does not belong here..,so sad. I hope in 2013 guys will understand this is a blotter thread a bit better. Happy new year.
Sounds about right. I don't really pay attention to this metric anymore b/c it doesn't affect my take home. I employ many different strategies...some of which are for large blocks of shares that skew this metric from what it might be otherwise. If a strategy produces cash flow and is consistent its alright by me.
I had a disappointing December (-0.77%) but decent annual return (30% with a monthly sharpe of 2.0). I don't understand people's obsession with screenshots but here you go. I could have easily edited the HTML to get any numbers I wanted
I just had my first profitable year, up 30.81% 2013 it will be an interesting one here is a decent way to start your first trading day of the New Year 2013 yesterday blotter
trader 2012 performance best month was march @ +23.19% worst was may @ -2.39%. struggled also oct -2.37%, nov was -.08%, dec was +1.37% of course i have optimism for 2013; and good luck to other fellow traders. happy new year. frank
Ggreat job, sellingindexvol. My 2012 performance. First Col is multistrategy hedge fund index. Second is SPX. Third is mine. Included cumulative Acct Equity chart for easy comparison. I probably should trade a bit more aggressively. njrookie
Clearly you've got to work on your drawdowns. 2.45% is just way too high. I wouldn't be comfortable with anything above 2% Also, stop having those huge months. They ruin your sharpe. You'll never catch up with macintosh. I do have a question, do you make more money in quiet months or in volatile ones? I can't quite tell. Is it normal for you to have flattish months half of the time and huge months the other half of the time?
Pretty good year in risk and dollar terms but PnL distribution was unusually skewed. 90% of the profits came over 5-6 months, the rest was mostly noise. Best/Worst Day: 184k/-161k Best/Worst Month: 677k/-384k Contracts traded: 273k