Whats is your YTD % return?

YTD 2006:

Up 14.3% (FUM 530k)

max draw 1%

 

Why not just measure trading ability by % return on buying power. Seems like that normalizes things pretty well between retail and prop traders.

 

Buying power is hard to determine...ours is virtually impossible to determine since we don't monitor the "money" we monitor the "risk".

Of course we have parameters as "guidelines" but especially intra day we have no way to track it...so we only filter for those who may be losing 10% of their account balance.

Don

 

YTD: + 6%

 

YTD 30% on 25000 account.
2848 trades, all on small trades to continue my experiment.
trade size: 50 to 100 shares
average trade cost: $2665.00
Gain $2.66 per trade after commision(so brokerage took about the same percentage).

 

All my trades here:

 

As of yesterday,
Swing trade and long term portfolio:
17.4% return YTD on 300K+ account with 2-1 Overnite Buying Power approximately 30% long stocks, 22 % short stocks 15% bond funds, 33% cash

Daytrading account:
146% return YTD on 60K daytrading account on 20-1 intraday Buying power and 3-1 Overnite.

 

same boat. i had the worst losing streak last month. 7 consecutive losses.

 

Cruise ships are a good idea. Would also have to keep track of 5's along with the Aces.

 

The only problem with cruise ships is the table limits are so small (usually $200 or so). We've been able to get them increased to $1,000 on a couple, but some just won't budge. Pretty hard to ratio bets properly with small limits.

Don