You need to have the discipline to cut your loss. Why not cut it before it becomes too big? You're a bigger loser if you hold your loss.
Honestly, from what I've seen, if you're going to buy a breakout.. 9/10 you're better off waiting for a pullback.
so why not get in before the breakout if you stand a chance at failing anyways half the time.. but you'll get a lower price. I think buying at the...
dang an average of like 300 orders a day.. don't you get tired?
It's more just me being unsatisfied with my gain % I guess. I make good plays, I just wish I had the patience to hold them for like a swing or...
Typically Ill just rebuy, I don't like sitting through big pullbacks. If they stay with my strategy there is a chance they are goi Sorry that...
exactly because it's so heavily shorted.. and because people want to be in the next hot billionaire play like VLTC.. it has nothing to do with the...
Doesn't it depend on your definition of a trend though? Some trends last 1 minute, some last 10 minutes. Some larger trends last years. That's the...
I have a serious problem holding winning trades for too long. It feels like I get in right at the time a big move is about to happen, and if I...
If you're with a broker usually the software has a built in one that you can use too. Finviz also has a scanner
I understand that, I'm talking about the data feeds. I'm paying for the poor mans data which has a wrong nbbo/data the charts aren't the same...
I'm currently using bats data for my IB paper account but the quotes/fills are obviously different from actual quotes/fills, I get charts from...
Well think about it.. If a stock just had amazing news and it's gone up 100% for the day but begins to crash.. are you not going to take profits?...
Ive found most indicators to be completely worthless.. I've been practice trading without them for about a year, looking into them for the past 2...
I am on dsl right now, i don't think it's very good. Pretty sure i'm getting cable/fios next week. I'm expecting maybe 20-60 ms. There is also...
Sometimes trading rooms can give alerts for stocks that are in the go.. but it's not anything you can't do with a scanner
Speedtrader also has speedtraderpro which is a completely different website. Look into it
First of all, I found a position size calculator and upped my size slightly from what I was initially expecting.. with the way that I manage my...
Right, but that's kind of my issue. I'll make a great play on a smaller stock and give it all away to a somewhat volatile larger stock with a...
also, losing the 2k isn't a huge issue, It's just that I'm already 2k in the hole from last year. I actually turned a profit after losing 30% on...
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