Making 100%-200% return a year from trading

Is it feasible to project this? No… who would be the sucker contributing the alpha dollars so consistently? 

Liquidity is definitely a problem for scaling. But that isn’t what is holding most people back from making 200% a year. I’ll let you in on a secret…the hard part is having ideas that will make you 200% a year (with reasonable vol, fine even without reasonable vol). 

Consistently? 

It's one thing to have a lucky pick or that one name break out. Completely different level to deliver that kind of return consistently, year after year, over a period of time.

Do that consistently, you'd be golden. 

In general, with smaller capital, doable. But not sure if this is a suitable approach in hedge funds, particularly MM. In other words, if there are a lot of constraints and risk limit around your book, very unlikely to achieve such results. 

It was a huge pet peeve of mine hearing kids in college talk about their 100%+ returns. They would always brag how investing is so easy and so forth yet all they invested was $200. Now they all have mediocre jobs. Don't be one of them. 

Numbers like that are totally unrealistic unless you were to run insane risk which obviously will only go well for a short time period. Also with that small capital you're not even considering leverage or hedging strategies.