What do you consider a good % profit from shares?

[motion]

Guys,

It seems you all have some good valued points with lots of experience. It's interesting to see everyone’s point of view and ideas on what’s a good way to take your profits from your investments. I guess me being new to this and making what I think is good profit on some of my investments is just trying to work out what’s a good balance...

I think I'm getting a better understanding of how to handle my investments and what I mean by this is buying and selling shares with confidence.....

On that note I’m going away to think about the comments that have been made here and chew the fat on my trading strategies.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with me.

 

[yonnie]

I know I use Techtrader as an example often but thats what it is---an example.
Average 26% return
each year over nearly 5 yrs has equated to 1300% return on initial capital.
ie $30,000 to $435,000 in that time.

Cant see how you do that, even with a margin loan. with $ 30,000 you can borrow $ 70,000 so after 1 year $ 126000.
etc etc.

Could you explain your leverage?

 

[Bomba]

Anything that ends in the green is a good result

 

[tech/a]

Cant see how you do that, even with a margin loan. with $ 30,000 you can borrow $ 70,000 so after 1 year $ 126000.
etc etc.

Could you explain your leverage?

Margin is approx 2:1
Increase position size with increased equity.
So your getting leverage on your compounding.
The 26% is a rough average as there is open equity profit.


All here if interested.
http://lightning.he.net/cgi-bin/suid/~reefcap/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=74;t=000029;p=6

 

[Baka_Gaijin]

"Generally most traders here would be looking at a specific target price, not a % profit."

I am only newto trading but isn't the profit % intrinsic when calculating the target price?

 

[Baka_Gaijin]

Anything that ends in the green is a good result

If you can't beat the returns a managed fund is getting, you are losing out.

 

[ben007]

Interesting psychology represented in everyone's responces. People often set profit targets because their skills are not good enough to know when a trade should be exited. After all the golden rule of trading is let your profits run and cut your losses short. This means if you exit a trade and you have made profit then no matter how big the profit you have done well. Trading is about trading well, win or lose. Let the share tell you when to buy and when to sell and you will make more money than most in the share market.

 

[legs]

I've turned my 26k super balance into 81k in three years with about 6k been added to it through contributions each year (total added 18k).

So thats 142%, if I'm right in 3 years, or 47% a year and thats trading solely ASX200 stocks and only being able to hold a maximum of 20% of my balance in one stock and a total of only 50% of my balance allowed to be traded by me. So really I believe my return is greater than 142% as I have counted their returns as well.
Is that a respectful return? I know its a hell of a lot better than what the super company returns itself.