I answered this question earlier today and thought I’d expand on it on the site:

Here are some questions about the “My Path to 100 R in Profits from Day Trading: April 26, 2006” overview:
You said “It took too long to get to 100 R. I should be double that by now.”
Q: Is this a joke, [...]

SD Trader left this comment this morning:

I appreciate the overview of your daily trading. It appears you have quite the set up over there. How long did it take you to start trading successfully (and consistently)? I have tried to look this one up in the archives but it appears once you left your old [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about money management and compounding of late. The other day I realized that I’d accumulated over 100 R of profits since I began day trading. (1 R = my initial dollar risk on any given trade.) More specifically it’s 100 R from when I started [...]