Largest stock lose?

Economicstudent · Newbie Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

I'm doing a data collection sheet for my stats. and prob. class and I need to know the following:
What is the largest $ you have lost in a single day of trading either real trading or paper money, doesnt' matter.

rffrydr · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:35 am Post subject:

I had a large french/german bond spread on once with about .05% margin which comes naturally leveraged. This was during the Soros ERM run and...wouldn't you know it, the French take more catholic holdiays. Had a huge move when france was closed.....that was a long....long weekend!

P.S. never bet on the french over the germans on anything to do with money Embarassed

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spycharter · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:27 am Post subject:

I think a better statistic to collect would be the the largest percentage drop of your portfolio on a given day.

If I lose $500 out of a $1000 portfolio it's a huge loss for me, but to somebody else $500 might be how much they lose each time they're stopped out.