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yes i am a trader, for 250% investing it would require very little diversification....btw at the beg if the yr account was mid 5 figs.

Re: What is your return for 2005?
 

401k at work: "Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2005 to 12/09/2005 is 8.6%"

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Re: What is your return for 2005?
 

Evan...

Just for your information, in the last 2+2 Trading Competition run by Dan, the winners 3 month return was over 100%.

Based on my knowledge of how and what fflaque trades, I do not doubt his quoted return figure!

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Evan...

Just for your information, in the last 2+2 Trading Competition run by Dan, the winners 3 month return was over 100%.

Based on my knowledge of how and what fflaque trades, I do not doubt his quoted return figure!

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Okay, I was really mostly joking about the lying thing. I have no idea wtf fflaque does or how good he is at it. That competition's results don't mean that much though. Unless there was a pretty significant amount of money on the line I think most people would be fools to use strategies they actually employ in their real portfolios.

So fflaque, since you returned ~64x the market this year, mind sharing your secrets? What was your biggest gainer? How many trades did you make? Which members of the NASD are you blowing?

Re: What is your return for 2005?
 

I trade mostly breakouts, news, and bounces...biggest gainer were XLGI and NLST(shoulda been gvrp for 30k if I woulda been using ameritrade)....here's my trade activity from my broker(since april):
Total Trades: 1702
Fees: $5,357.03
Commission: $9,346.37

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I trade mostly breakouts, news, and bounces...biggest gainer were XLGI and NLST(shoulda been gvrp for 30k if I woulda been using ameritrade)....here's my trade activity from my broker(since april):
Total Trades: 1702
Fees: $5,357.03
Commission: $9,346.37

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how do u get news?

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how do u get news?

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Your broker should provide you with a news source... alternatively you could try marketwatch or yahoo as free sources.

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250%...beg of the yr account was mid 5 fig

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I'm still unclear. Is the 250% a weighted aggregate IRR of all the trades you made? Or did your total portfolio (including all the cash that was sitting on the sidelines) go up 3.5x (if this is the explanation, your starting bankroll was about $50k and you now have about $175k.....wow)? Or what?

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250%...beg of the yr account was mid 5 fig

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I'm still unclear. Is the 250% a weighted aggregate IRR of all the trades you made? Or did your total portfolio (including all the cash that was sitting on the sidelines) go up 3.5x (if this is the explanation, your starting bankroll was about $50k and you now have about $175k.....wow)? Or what?

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I was certainly under the impression that it was the latter.