SAC
Safeguard Acquisition Corp.
stock NYSE

Jim Simons, arguably the greatest quant in history, averaged 66% per year for 30 years. That comes to $2.50 per day per $1000 or $250/day per $100K.
It requires large amounts of Capital to make a living.
Traders regularly beat that number with ease then claim "I make $1200 per day" when they only did it for one day, but no one does it consistently.
Steve Cohen's SAC Capital hit 30%/year for 20, but he almost went to jail for insider trading.
There's going to be a Dunning-Kruger response to this comment, there always is, those individuals are usually gone within a few months because risk and reward are parellel, the higher the % reward you seek, the higher the risk.
Small retailers have no edge over big institutions, though they can be more limber, the real edges come from learning regular seasonal, monthly and weekly patterns, like IV, USD or gold after FOMC, CPI or initial claims.
Earnings cycles are a big one too, but these require options trading and that's a whole different breed of animal.
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Jim Simons, arguably the greatest quant in history, averaged 66% per year for 30 years. That comes to $2.50 per day per $1000 or $250/day per $100K.
It requires large amounts of Capital to make a living.
Traders regularly beat that number with ease then claim "I make $1200 per day" when they only did it for one day, but no one does it consistently.
Steve Cohen's SAC Capital hit 30%/year for 20, but he almost went to jail for insider trading.
There's going to be a Dunning-Kruger response to this comment, there always is, those individuals are usually gone within a few months because risk and reward are parellel, the higher the % reward you seek, the higher the risk.
Small retailers have no edge over big institutions, though they can be more limber, the real edges come from learning regular seasonal, monthly and weekly patterns, like IV, USD or gold after FOMC, CPI or initial claims.
Earnings cycles are a big one too, but these require options trading and that's a whole different breed of animal.
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