Tomorrow will be interesting after the return of the bulls last week. Futures are slightly down at 10pm tonight. Maybe we’ll see a gap down with a slight recovery for a sideways day. Lots of traders are looking to short...
Read MoreIf you haven’t noticed, I’ve decided to shut down my day trading in the prop account, and I think it will be a couple months of paper trading before I venture back. While there are many things I need to work on in my...
Read MoreI will review my afternoon paper trades from today (-.55) and my prop account trades from yesterday (-$133) sometime this weekend. I can’t catch a winning trade let alone a green day – paper or cash. So I thought I...
Read MoreI’m going to paper trade again into close after getting some real life work done, but thought I would make notes on what happened this morning. I have decided not to trade with my prop account until I can show some...
Read MorePaper trading tomorrow and next week. I’m going to be ready for numerous scenarios – rally continuation, a reversal back down, or for a chop fest, anything could happenSymbol Last %Chg Vol ADR OPEN High Low PQ 1.71...
Read MoreI was much better with my overtrading today and followed 90% of my rules. I had a couple miscues in the morning but if you cut your losses quickly, those are minor. Mid morning, I was short a stock, and its price moved quickly...
Read MoreFutures are down right now. The financials may be volatile because of the mark-to-market hearings (I’m leaning toward a sell the rumor dynamic). I’m short biased, but am also open to a sell-off in the morning and a...
Read MoreI went for a half hour run today with the dog and swam for half hour this evening. This weekend I’m running a fun run, I did a half dozen of them last year. I’m doing pretty good with my life balance goals I’m...
Read MoreI’m starting to wonder if I have the concentration capabilities and the emotional make-up in order to trade. I was down -$42 total today; first trade of the day was successful $25 and I thought about hanging up things but...
Read MoreI have to start putting in the time to look at more charts in prep for each trading day. Here is my brief watchlist, 4 of 5 came from Investor Live’s post from tonight. I ran them through Johnny Vento’s average day...
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