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Re: realistic returns (was system trader)



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Doubling your equity every week or every month isn't anywhere close to
realistic. If you could do it, you'd end up owning all the currency on
the planet, and then some, in a few years. Even doubling every year is
damn hard. 

Fun with compounding -- in 10 years:

double weekly: $1000 -> $3 * 10^159 (yeah 159 zeros)
double monthly: $1000 -> $1 * 10^39 (39 zeros)
double yearly: $1000 -> $1,024,000 ("only" 6 zeros - pretty impressive)
50% yearly: $1000 -> $57,665
20% yearly: $1000 -> $6,192

-- 
  Dennis