I missed the DOW breaking 8,000 at close today as I was out at a meeting, but spent the morning looking at charts and placing a couple paper trades. I tried to short HZO and LPX but these were deemed “hard to borrow”...
Read MoreOver the last couple days, I test drove Think or Swim’s trading demo platform, a.k.a. Paper Money. I’ve decided to use this application for my paper trading experimental stage. During this testing period, I want to...
Read MoreI’m kinda bummed, it won’t be until Wednesday until I have some time to do some paper trading during market hours. I have some real life work to do in the mornings, but will try playing around with the TOS interface...
Read MoreWell, this one is related to the learning from yesterday (that stop orders are triggered by bid spreads not actual trade prices, at least at my broker). The lesson today was I was saved from losing additional money because my...
Read MoreThough I am not “trading” today, I sold some stocks – in real life too. As I mentioned in this post, I had been holding on to NEXM for about a month. Recently, I decided I was going to cash out the next time it...
Read MoreI’m going to be taking a couple days off until Friday to catch up my job; good thing I work for myself, plus I teach on Thursdays. Today showed why this blog is called STOCK ROOKIE because I made all sorts of newbie...
Read MoreSwing Trades Had a near major disaster (albeit virtual) with my weekend swing trades. As I said in an earlier post, I should of sold GM on Friday as the market closed – this was just a bad stock of a company in crisis to...
Read MoreI’m realizing more and more how much I don’t know about trading. To study up, I plan on buying Brian Shannon’s book, but before doing so right now I’m reading something more basic and dumbed down –...
Read MoreIn reality, I have about $10k to trade with to start out. I will likely distribute this between four accounts and do a combination of swing trades, and up to 12 day trades a week (using the separate accounts to avoid the pattern...
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