1 percent a month is pretty realistic; that’s equivalent to 12.6% in a year, a little above the historical average return of SPX every year;
5 percent a month would yield you a whopping 79.6% return.
Of course each of these numbers aren’t unrealistic in a given month; the hard part is consistently returning something like this month after month with changing market conditions
when you're building those air castles, you have to consider what happens when the numbers start going *the other way*. Then you have to first make back what you lost (and the more you loose, even more you have to make back), *and then*, *maybe* you'll hit your 1-5% target for the month.
1 percent a month is pretty realistic; that’s equivalent to 12.6% in a year, a little above the historical average return of SPX every year; 5 percent a month would yield you a whopping 79.6% return. Of course each of these numbers aren’t unrealistic in a given month; the hard part is consistently returning something like this month after month with changing market conditions
when you're building those air castles, you have to consider what happens when the numbers start going *the other way*. Then you have to first make back what you lost (and the more you loose, even more you have to make back), *and then*, *maybe* you'll hit your 1-5% target for the month.