by the way, what broker and how are you getting daily account #s into your spreadsheet? have an app that does it automatically? or manually every day enter the #? i'd love something that automatically graphs daily performance and calculates drawdown/etc. on IB...
I shorted heavily when Pabst, thorn and Brownstreek, repeatedly, said they "guaranteed" a market top... I LOST $836,299,210,583,... Nahhh, bot the dips all year (and still buyin') and made about 40%
i start my stock account around usd$150k, now it is usd$270k i start my future account aound usd$110k, now it is usd$290k i seem never able to break the 300k mark per market so far. once i got above the 300k level, i could not take the up and down as easy as in a smaller account. once i withdraw money, i am able to bring the balance back to 300k level again. so it is really my FEAR stops me using my skills fully.
well i wasn't trading as actively and aggressively as i do now, also i was in school/working back then too