Originally Posted by xato

Alright, lets assume they started with only $1'000.- initial capital themselves and made 1% each trading day for 5 years.
There are about 252 trading days per year, which makes 1260 trading days altogether.

Now if you compound the interest $1'000.- would have been
$12'274 after one year
$150'651 after two years
$1'849'092 after three years
$22'695'762 after four years
$278'567'833 after five years