I checked the thread on Washington, several guys told him he needs to make a grand a day. Some of the threads are a waste of time, but I really...
Good luck, give us an update in a couple months
Don't get me wrong, I think you are doing great. But your question was what should your profit goal be to be considered a good trader, (not a...
You asked the wrong question, its hard to get numbers out of anyone, they all like to talk in generalities. If you were reasonably good...
the Bush recession is OK for traders but it is killing investors, and without investors, traders have no one to feed off of. So I guess its very...
Charts always make the most sense after the market is closed, although I confess to keeping 30 chart windows open at all times
Thanks for the advice. I trade Nas 100 stocks, but I will stay at 500 until Supermontage and then make a decision as to whether to move up or...
After using a default order size of 100 for 2 years I finally changed it to 500. This did wonders for my profitability. I went from making...
What I do is "Buy stock, cross my fingers, and pace around the room" or "Short stock, cross my fingers, and throw my pen" This could use...
SE made a good point about the importance of MA's, although I used weighted MAs on an interval chart using 12 intervals, spaced 10 seconds apart,...
SE, when do you enter a trade?
lol Chasinfla makes a real contribution, and is definately female, probably more like Julia Roberts or Maria.
I really enjoy these posts. Its interesting to see how diverse traders are once you get them away from trading. Peter and Chasinfla are both...
Based on private messages I will just answer here with more details for all to see. In 1999 I took a course at Broadway Trading in NYC and got...
OK if you must know, I lost 300K in 1999, my first year, and I've been making it back but I'm still down about 150K. Yesterday I traded 30K...
As hockey great Bobby Hull once said: "My wife has made me a millionaire, I used to be a multi-millionaire" On a smaller scale daytrading has...
being long and short at the same time sounds like a great way to pay commissions and tie up your money without getting anywhere.
It doesn't have to be men in black The futures crash on the WCOM news in the premarket, then the market says, hey, that stock was already under...
They have some decent traders, but they will fly More business for IB Canada.
I'm hopelessly biased towards being a bull. Now I'm just hopeless.
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