What's your largest losing day in futures daytrading?

Discussion in 'Index Futures' started by Coin Flip, Aug 8, 2024.

  1. Coin Flip

    Coin Flip

    My largest losing day in futures daytrading was $3,748.96 which came from one trade with 2 NQ last year.

    At the time that felt like a lot, but now you get used to the variance.
     
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  2. Robert Morse

    Robert Morse Sponsor

    February 2018. About $75K
     
  3. NoahA

    NoahA

    How does this compare with what your average winning day might be during this time period?
     
  4. Robert Morse

    Robert Morse Sponsor

    To be fair, it was not "my" trading, but it was my money. I had invested in 3 CTAs with programs. Two we selling naked puts. That day in 2018, the VX future traded from about 17 to 33 in 2 minutes from 4:13pm to 4:15 PM. A VIX ETN was shutting down and needed to buy back their VX futures. I heard about 90,000 at the market. It caused a large drop in all the indexes when futures started trading again. I close all those accounts and never invested in a naked option sellers again. Those CTAs before that, earned about 13% to 25% per year after fees.

     
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  5. Hello Coin Flip,

    About $3000
     
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  6. schizo

    schizo

    Day trading: $100K
    Swing trading: $250K
     
  7. Zwaen

    Zwaen

    Options: -45k felt like a brick in my stomach :vomit: - and I was in a restaurant ;)

    (best day +55k, didn't felt as good as I would have expected)
     
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  8. mervyn

    mervyn

    greed keeps you in, pain gets you out.

    now you know what your risk tolerance is.

    $24,245 in nq and $20.687.5 in es, all were from 2022.
     
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  9. maxinger

    maxinger

    upload_2024-8-9_6-50-15.jpeg

    It was so huge that
    I didn't dare to count.
     
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  10. deaddog

    deaddog

    To give some context to your losses, how about stating them as a percentage of your trading capital.
    It's hard to compare a 100k loss to a 3k loss without some context.
     
    #10     Aug 8, 2024
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