and took time off, saving on live quote expenses, commission expenses? Have you ever thought about this? What if you held a few mini contracts short? Or if you held leveraged short index funds? Wouldn't you've been better off? The time frame of some people's trades is just a reflection of their psychological make-up and temperament. It has nothing to do with any imaginary edge or business plan. I am saying this because I do believe people trade for all kinds of reasons. What is yours?
On a regular S&P contract (lets say SPZ2) you could have sold around 1225 this time last year. Thats about 340 pts X $250 = $85,000 profit per contact. Margin has moved between $17k-$25k over that time. Nice call if anyone made it.
Since we're daydreaming, what if I bought 100,000 shares of 3.00/share INVN on Sept 10, 2001, or sold short ENE at 85.00? Or shorted WCOM AMZN and YHOO in march 2000 while everyone else was buying like no tomorrow ?