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Paper Profits Meet Hard Reality

Yesterday, I had my best paper trading day that I can remember in a while. With my new trading plan based on 200 share positions at entry, while exiting half when a price target is hit and letting the rest run, I garnered about...

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Covestor Vanity & Transparency

I had Covestor manually import my trades from the bottom-fishing portfolio. They only allow you to have your account linked to one broker at a time, and I actually have three trading accounts – TD Ameritrade, Think or...

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Fitness Saturday #4

Another good week, slight improvement in my 5K. But my pants are falling down, and I have to wear my belt tighter belt – so that is a sign in itself.I was inspired to improve my fitness in part by this post from and Fear...

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Upgrading Computer: Deal Ends 4/25

After many crashes, data feed lags and slow operation when I have multiple charts up (not to mention the blurriness in my second monitor since I have a conversion device and not a true dual monitor video card), I decided to get...

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Fitness Saturday #3 / Blog-cation

Crazy busy day, but started off with another 5k, 1 min.+ faster than last week – 30:45. I’ll be back next Saturday. Good luck next week trading!UPDATE 4/21: Here’s a graphic of my progress in terms of fitness...

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Sim Training: Day #19

Well today got a little off track and I started making trades just to catch up, and then NOT following what are now my nebulous rules at all. +.35 gross, +.155 net on 13 trades. There isn’t much to really learn from here,...

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Sim Training: Day #18

I experimented today trading without looking at the overall market (SPY, $INDU, $TRIX, etc.), as well as only having price bars with no moving averages or volume on my chart. While I want to have the simplest system possible, I...

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Sim Training: Day #17

My main goal today was to get in more trades in that 1 or 2. I accomplished that, but I fell into my old trap of “loading” up on positions in anticipation of a move (market tankage in the AM). This didn’t work...

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Tuesday Back Charting

Alright, I know picking a chart post-facto is like ancient history but it’s helping me look at repeatable patterns on stocks that gap up or down – they tend to repeat themselves in certain ways.Today, I also started...

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