Wow, you must be under a lot of financial pressure. Wish you could get a loan to solve your immediate financial problems. It seems even 5K a month...
OK I decided to review my stock trades since the thread started. In general I do not place a hard stop loss. If it is intrad-day, I watch and...
Weekly Update for week 11 ended 5/11/2007 I made a modest 9K this week, albeit with much volatility. Got whipsawed on Monday trading AL after...
I scale down on a method (like OPTIONS) when I have severe losses. But I do not give up entirely, since I still feel it is a potentially...
The good thing is that in USA and other developed countries, the chance is there to break out of poverty by trying. It is not so in every other...
Weekly Update for week 10 ended 5/4/2007 Just when I thought options is looking promising, and decided to scale up, I am handed woeful losses....
Thanks to all who took the time to reflect on this quiz. Let us assume each trade lasts exactly one week, and you can be in only one trade at a...
You are displaying you own ignorance as well. I understand as much, if not more, than you about risk management. A stop loss is percentage does...
You risk a maximum of 1.25% per trade. Max 4 positions. So you are trading with only 5% of the account? I do not see what you will achieve with...
Weekly Update for week 9 ended 4/27/2007 The play of the week was AMZN. Unfortunately did not play it very well. Shorted 2000 shares pre-market...
You got it. Keeping records is the key. That turned my trading around dramatically. I started noticing patterns and strategies that were costing...
OK, this guy took 11,000 to 18,000,000 in 18 months in the bull market of 1999/early 2000. This gives us a monthly compounded rate of 51%, or...
The following are the three top trades, already mentioned, which altogether netted me nearly 34K. The remaining 22 trades made a net of about 6K...
After eight weeks of posting weekly summaries, you may determine what proportion is due to luck, and what is due to skill. In case you do not have...
Weekly Update for week 8 ended 4/20/2007 Speechless! How do you make a killing from your own blunder? I did that Friday. I bought 110 GOOG APR...
It depends on your psychological make-up. If you can stand the sight of gains, then yes, by all means continue doing what you are doing: trading...
At times I feel so bad the market is so imbalanced. Consider AVNR which I watched this morning, and wanted to short at $6. The stock could not be...
Congrats. Looks like your straddle is in the money. Right now YHOO is trading 29.47 after hrs. If it opens this way tomorrow, your puts are worth...
Yes I was also perturbed when I found out that their total assets under management is only 2.5billion dollars. That is less than one percent what...
Weekly Update for week 7 ended 4/13/2007 Lots of frenetic trading, but not much to show for it. Began on sad note on Monday losing 10K shorting...
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