Whenever there is math I have to get involved. Attached is a spreadsheet, the % of profit column is what I (a 3 month trader) have produced...
Relax! Enjoy college! When you graduate get a job, save up money, then trade. No rush, you have your whole life.
Dow has been trading between 10,200 and 10,700 for the last three months. Do you need technicals to take a position at 10,300 and expect it to go...
Five year contract for 500 Million, but that includes all the expenses/salaries of running his show. Let's say he has a 30% profit margin,...
Guitar (daily), lifting weights (3Xweek), Running(3Xweek), Basketball (weekly), Golf (weekly), Bartending/entertaining guests (1xmonth),...
Placed 9 trades and commissions accounted for 32% of my loss.
I haven't placed any trades the last three days because I haven't been seeing anything I like at the open. I have attached my excel trading log...
Read every article on this site about day trading. Good information and everything anyone will tell you here. http://daytrading.about.com/
I Traded Yahoo today. It opened at 35.88 and the pivot point was 36.03, so the bias was to short. It went up slightly and I placed a market...
More money beats margins any day. Take two retailers for example: Walmart: Gross Revenue: 287 Bil Net Profit: 10 Bil Profit Margin: 3.5%...
Bought Long 265 Shares of EBAY for $37.16 Sold at $36.33 Pivot Point was $36.99 - - - What Happened? Net Proceeds: (219.95) Less...
I traded AAPL today. Pivot point was 37.72 and it opened exactly on Pivot. I bought long because the stock was moving and I got a price of 37.74...
I changed my stocks for my strategy to ones that have a little more volume and move a little more during the day than the dow Jones stocks I was...
I find it worthless to trade on friday's in the summer. Many stocks opened today 1% above yesterday's close and then took a dive the next 2...
Buy long 900 shares of Ford (F) today at the open at $10.97. Sold at 1:14pm at 11.08 for exactly 1% gain. Gross proceeds: $99 Less...
Sold short 1000 shares of Ford (F) today at $11.06. Covered at $11.01. Gross proceeds: $50 Less Commissions: $14.45 Net Profit: $35.55...
The big % loss on intel was because I got away from my discipline and trading plan and it won't happen again. I have a 1.5:1 reward to risk ratio...
Yes, go back and read the posts.
Thanks Lefty.
I am no longer trading 100 lots. I don't feel I am getting killed on commissions that hard either. The math is all corect in what you're saying,...
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