UPDATE: Was freed up this afternoon and did some real money trading…I shorted ERES around 3:30pm for a $6.66 gain after commissions. There were several other trade set ups that I passed on and then they ran; I have to...
Read MoreFour trades today in my prop account, so I slowed my over-trading. In terms of my discipline goals, much better than Wednesday but I will be paper trading on Monday until I get 100% compliance. Here’s how I did:1) One...
Read MoreAs I sit out today from both sim trading and with real cash trading (ok, well for the most part), the Dow looks like it wants to head to at least to 6,600. My mom and her five siblings are all invested a ton into the stock...
Read MoreToday I overtraded on emotion. While I still need to fine tune my entries and get better at identifying ideal set-ups, my main issue remains exits, and a new problem today, too many ordering errors. Along with never doubling...
Read More9:00am – Now that I’m not trading with play money any more, I need to be more serious and diligent. To that end, my plan is to post goals for the day each morning as well as to more formally review my trades for the...
Read MoreWell, at this rate – with 50 days in row with losses like this, I will be $1K in the hole. I think the 100 share positions will be in place for awhile.Still a good day in any case, I’m slowly getting used to the...
Read MoreI started off with paper trading gaining nearly .50 on shorting SNTA and DYAX.I then made my first trades with Cy Group using the Laser platform. There were some kinks with me learning the system but after making one trade, I...
Read MoreBased on the conversation in the comments of this post, I put this poll up about a month ago. Obviously, if we had a way to filter the answers based on the responders background, it could shed a little more light on the results....
Read MoreShorts of HIG, RF and KEY at 2pmish were all stopped out my my rule of placing initial stop of .10 cents. If I had placed these at HOD or recent resistance levels (keeping my rules simple now), they would of been great trades. I...
Read MoreTomorrow I should finally get the chance to do some pre market prep, trade the opening and put into practice my strategy trading microcap stocks.Today, I gave back a hunk of my gains in my contest account. I kept on shorting the...
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