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description: "Damn, I didn't post a chart, otherwise people might think I'm being humble-bragging. This active position lost back all the excess returns I made, but I don't know why it shows -18%. It's clearly still positive compared to the beginning of the year; it must be due to time-weighting... right?"
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author: "[長野原烟花店交易员](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/13857406.md)"
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# Damn, I didn't post a chart, otherwise people migh…


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## Comments (12)

- **白築慕的交易员 · 2026-07-31T00:49:27.000Z**: I find this IB mechanism quite confusing too.
- **龙场悟道忘忧草 · 2026-07-31T00:45:26.000Z · 👍 1**: No worries, Bro. You've also reached enlightenment! And you haven't lost any principal either 😇 So I've kept my 30% position fully invested (All-in) all along, just to sleep well at night.As the saying goes, there are many fierce traders in this world, and there are many veteran traders, but absolu
- **Epi_chan · 2026-07-30T23:59:11.000Z**: For IB, which is time-weighted, my account is near its all-time high, but the results show a return of -5% for this year.
- **Susie7 · 2026-07-30T18:51:56.000Z**: You are very impressive
- **半山外賣仔 · 2026-07-30T18:49:25.000Z**: Think positively, after all, the total amount of money you have right now is not much.It's all experience; it will eventually settle down.
  - **長野原烟花店交易员** (2026-07-30T18:50:34.000Z): That's quite a lot for me, around 200K... enough to buy 1/3 of a single-family house 😢
  - **長野原烟花店交易员** (2026-07-30T18:50:54.000Z): Still grateful
  - **半山外賣仔** (2026-07-30T18:51:36.000Z): That's floating profit, not realized gain. You only withdraw cash after making more profits later; that's my specialty in controlling drawdowns.