Hey, guys, if you're wondering where my proof is you can visit my profile. By my estimation I'm up 20% YTD in FY2008. Just wanted to view the poll to get people's reactions.
you need to indicate at least the account size to make this poll meaningful. 20% return on 10K account is not the same as 20% return on 10M or 10B accounts.
Yes, I should have clarified. I manage 40mm which is mainly retirement assets. I'm up a little over 250bps ytd.
Please don't construe this as an advertisement. It's not really for sale, but is a nice bit of proof that I can trade. <a href="http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/systems.mpl?want=p&systemid=25716110"> <img src="http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/badge.mpl?systemid=25716110"> </a> I estimate you can get the same exposure with the maximum amount of contracts on ND, namely 1000 of them on a hypothetical $50 million account. The link is just demonstrating $150k from the start of this year.-- Beau
A curious response Swordsman. I'm more of a position trader. I have tried daytrading models in TS, but I didn't find my Wealth-Lab backtests were valid when I started trading them there. I then swore off minute, hourly, and any other intraday time-frame.
I appreciate it! I've been down a little over 100bps too this year and am performance-based. Thank God for Puts!
Up 20% by itself doesn't mean anyting unless you attach a standard deviation to those returns or any other metric of risk.