Is a steady 20%/yr growth target enough for you?

20% per year would be enough for me, but I do not count that as a ceiling when conditions may permit a better return.

I managed 45% p.a. for the two and half years up to March this year, but that was on the stock market and things have become difficult since then.

My forex trading is sporadically good. I am trying to maintain 1% per week, with mixed success. 1% per week compounded would give 50% yearly and that allows for holidays and the like. Strangely my stock market experience does not map easily to consistent forex trading. My stock market account size is huge by comparison, managing that portfolio is distracting, causing me to expend lots of time reading market and company reports. Fortunately some of the fundamental data is portable.

Latterly my forex trading has improved...

When a trader makes 20% per anno regularly he has make a decision how much risk is he ready to accept.

Risk appetite
It seems more the risk aversion or -tolerance which could determine his profit per anno IMO.
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I have found 20-30% a year is a reasonable and sustainable goal from year to year. I shoot for 5-10% a month, then there are occasional losing months and some months not enough action to make the goal. But overall when I get to the end of the year and see that gain it is reasonable. True professional traders who trade at banks and institutions if they are in that 20-30% range are considered near the top of their fields.

anything that beats inflation is ok.
unless you wanna make a living off trading.
some are going to make 1000% just to pay their bills (min deposit to most shops is $50)
it's laughable what subculture is on this forum. looks like the whole bunch of 2p2-ers and other poker forums have migrated here.
guess it will end in tears, like everything of this kind. nfa and cftc, some years from now, will make the leverage 15:1 and min deposit to 100k (which is small for this kind of market anyway) to stop kids and stay-at-home moms losing their popcorn savings. most of you will be playing backgammon (on FB).

I expect 1.4% per day which equates to about 30% per month. I opened my trading business in April and was doing about this until the NZD/CHF got me stuck up. My average per week since 4/11/2014 is presently 4.37%.

20% per annum is ok for my low risk investments. However for my trading really I am looking for 50%-100% per year. When I am trading well this is more than achievable, however when I am trading badly just staying positive can be a challenge.

I have been trading for a few years now and still manage to make stupid mistakes from time to time, so at the moment my current goal is simply make good trades and eliminate the mistakes. My biggest problem is I talk myself out of good trades, so even though I am profitable for the most part, I cause myself problems.

For example this morning I sold the dax at 45 with a stop at 68 and a target of 10. A nice positive risk reward trade, and one that went on to hit target. Great.... apart from the fact that I cam out at 20 because the market didn't "look" right... This is something I do quite regularly and is really the only reason I don't consistently hit my goal of 50-100% per year.