Percentage of return depends on capital, experience, skill, and understanding of the market.
No one can except uniform income from trading like a salaried person. In trading return also depends on the market. Usually, traders make more in trending or volatile market.
The market is dynamic in nature sometimes it gives us more opportunity for bigger profits for trend follower for prolonged times. Sometimes it stuck in difficult ranges or slow grinding trend, then it creates more opportunity for option writers.
Different traders find different states of market easier/difficult to trade depending on their system and psychology.
Overall never compare/try to copy another trader's return, bcoz knowledge, intelligence, experience, psychology, risk management, position size management, capital all vary from person to person and the hence the overall output.
It is easy to make the higher percentage of return on lower capital 5-10 lakh or so. Real test comes when capital goes beyond 50-70 lakhs or few crore or psychological limit of the trader real test.
Just for info, as a full-time day trader, my average return on last 7 years averages approx 240%. Last year I got 220%
It becomes harder to hardest to maintain the same average high return as before as capital increased beyond the psychological limit of the trader.
People try to shift to safer trades when capital is increased and it requires new innovative ideas, finding new opportunities to maintain the similar high return with safer trades. So trading is never an easy job.
When u r experienced and capital increased, u try to concentrate on limited scripts and much more detailed analysis to find better trades - safer trades - few jackpots...
Trading is a journey.....It is also dynamic in nature like returns.. Even most successful traders always have good phases and bad phases in between average return phases...
Positive return must be the first goal,
next to beat the FD+Inflation+All type of trading cost,
next increase of capital slowly,
next remove some extra profit for day to day expense...
So full-time trading is long way to go...
U must have some backup to live at least 5-7 years for peaceful trading in initial years...B4 u think of any meaningful return for the living...
So return of full-time trader may be a misleading topic, here greed comes first.
And we know greed and fear are two enemies of traders..
Why I write up such a long post, I know some beginners will be greedy from the post of returns of successful traders here.
Always consider the total capital used and experience in years of trading while considering the percentage of return.
No one can except uniform income from trading like a salaried person. In trading return also depends on the market. Usually, traders make more in trending or volatile market.
The market is dynamic in nature sometimes it gives us more opportunity for bigger profits for trend follower for prolonged times. Sometimes it stuck in difficult ranges or slow grinding trend, then it creates more opportunity for option writers.
Different traders find different states of market easier/difficult to trade depending on their system and psychology.
Overall never compare/try to copy another trader's return, bcoz knowledge, intelligence, experience, psychology, risk management, position size management, capital all vary from person to person and the hence the overall output.
It is easy to make the higher percentage of return on lower capital 5-10 lakh or so. Real test comes when capital goes beyond 50-70 lakhs or few crore or psychological limit of the trader real test.
Just for info, as a full-time day trader, my average return on last 7 years averages approx 240%. Last year I got 220%
It becomes harder to hardest to maintain the same average high return as before as capital increased beyond the psychological limit of the trader.
People try to shift to safer trades when capital is increased and it requires new innovative ideas, finding new opportunities to maintain the similar high return with safer trades. So trading is never an easy job.
When u r experienced and capital increased, u try to concentrate on limited scripts and much more detailed analysis to find better trades - safer trades - few jackpots...
Trading is a journey.....It is also dynamic in nature like returns.. Even most successful traders always have good phases and bad phases in between average return phases...
Positive return must be the first goal,
next to beat the FD+Inflation+All type of trading cost,
next increase of capital slowly,
next remove some extra profit for day to day expense...
So full-time trading is long way to go...
U must have some backup to live at least 5-7 years for peaceful trading in initial years...B4 u think of any meaningful return for the living...
So return of full-time trader may be a misleading topic, here greed comes first.
And we know greed and fear are two enemies of traders..Why I write up such a long post, I know some beginners will be greedy from the post of returns of successful traders here.
Always consider the total capital used and experience in years of trading while considering the percentage of return.
Dear headstrong007,
Nice write up and fully agreed with you........ your almost all thoughts and ideas are always like similar to me so I have nothing to write and add anything extra....
Note :- headstrong007, i think your another old id is JMD.....
HEM
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