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It depends on what stock you are trading.

Let us use the most general and broad use stock SPY as example.

Simply buy and hold SPY since 01/01/1998 to 01/01/2016, Compounding Annual Return 6.028% and maximum drawdown 55.3% and sharpe ratio 0.394