What's the worst drawdown you can handle?

I can handle 30% drawdown in my portfolio. More than that I'll have to be on suicidal watch. How about you?

 

5% for the whole capital.

Trading stops once over.

My trading style is the "Small lost trading"

so makes it easier.

 

i've sat through 20% a few times

 

Buy-and-hold has seen drawdowns of 30% to 65% in the most recent ten years. It's actually rather fun to grab the data off Yahoo Finance for the Dow, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, the Russell 2000, toss them into a spreadsheet, and calculate the drawdowns. (If you prefer, you can use Total Return series such as SPY etc.). Quite illuminating.

If your mother can stomach 40% DD's in her B&H IRA, maybe that means you can handle 40% DD's in your actively traded account?

 

2 or 3% max

 

My worst drawdown was 50% over a period of about four months, slowly bleeding. I was totally off my game. The following six months after the drawdown I quadroupled my account, as I got my act together.

I'm a pure discretionary trader, and I believe 100% in myself and my abilities.

 

How did you make your comeback? Did you blow everything out and start fresh?

 

-5 % will give me concerns.

-7.5% will make me feel like a failure and is time to regroup.

-10% is time to QUIT...

 

ja, that's already sickenin' enough

 

10% to 30%, depending on situation.

Normally 10%.