My parents bought me a few trading books for christmas. I skimmed through hundreds of pages, and most of the info didn't seem very helpful....
Its funny to read so many posts about how "poor" the day trading environment has become. In my opinion it has never been better. It is unlikely...
I'm short a straddle. Sold the FEB $10 puts and the $25 calls. Should be a fun rollercoaster over next few months. I took in about $3.7...
every sunday. Bear market still not over i guess.
Seems like every sunday night i check the futures and they are down a few points. This is one hell of a BEAR.
I make dozens of trades in dozens of stocks every day. I employ a complicated trend system where i'm constantly having to take in 100's of data...
It seems like there is alot of money to be made just trading off the front page headlines. Front page today talked about weakness at...
If you want to daytrade the s&p, is there any advantage to trading the futures versus trading SPY. Assume i don't care about leverage as i work as...
It seems that i go into mental overload with that many positions. Conentrating in on a few sectors helps and when futures are trending it is...
These stocks have been very tough to trade from long side for weeks. Countless days i've been tricked to buying in because of the price of crude...
I have found that this strategy often is very reliable. Whenever futures indicate a big down open, like yesterday, identify stocks that were...
I'm talking NYSE. So far september has been a big dissapointment. The volatility has been pretty good, but the low volume has made it hard to...
What is the concept? Are we trying to buy stocks that open "too low" and short stocks that open "too high"? Can someone please sumarize the...
I sold 30 contracts of the sept $20 puts and calls for $8 premium. Not bad for 4 1/2 weeks till expiration. Anybody else working these...
I'm starting this thread so that we can all learn what trades work and those that don't. Rules of this thread. POST the trade you made (entry...
I can't seem to find options on SPYders. i can for QQQ. Seems very strange there arn't options on SPY. Am i missing something?
Can it be this simple? Only buy stocks that have ascending short term moving average and are above the average. And vice versa, shorting stocks...
A few months ago the sector recieved an upgrade when the Index was 110. Today the index closed at 70. These stocks have been falling 5% a...
I heard Worldco is having financial troubles and is no longer allowing traders to hold overnight positions. Are they going under? Anyone have...
I'm starting this thread, because i'm confused why anyone would bother to trade boring stocks that are not likely to move more than 2 or 3% at the...
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