Making $5K with $20K each month

Discussion in 'Journals' started by PennyTrader, Apr 14, 2007.

  1. DNDN- $6.49 turned out to be the resistence, not going to play it anymore, too weak, cannot borrow shares to short either.

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    #431     May 14, 2007
  2. A struggling day just as the market. Had a very nice gain on flipping DNDN, but gave back $200 on the stop from 6.40s to 6.30s. Tried to play OPBL's bounce at 0.50, instead, sold for a loss before the market close, don't want to hold this bag overnight.

    I hope everyone is doing better than me. Tomorrow is another day, hope to find some better ones to play.

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    #432     May 14, 2007
  3. Your good honestly I dont know hoe you managed to find a profit today the markets were going sideways for the most part good job man
     
    #433     May 14, 2007
  4. yc47ib

    yc47ib

    PT, I have been watching and trading half a dozen solar related stocks for the last 6 months, and found there are obvious manipulation by large money (e.g., CSIQ, ESLR, FSLR, SOLF, JASO; but except for STP and TSL). Be careful with this one. I would suggest get in in the morning and out before market close. It is not that safe holding overnight. But good luck though, hope it will make your week.


     
    #434     May 14, 2007
  5. Obvious prediction
    You will lose close to all of your money
    and your friends too

    This is like watching someone slit their own throat at a rate of 1 mm per day :eek:
     
    #435     May 15, 2007
  6. About 6-7 years ago I turned 5000 dollars into 56000 within a year by daytrading CSCO. Just daytrading CSCO. For an entire year, I lived, breathed and ate CSCO.

    One of these days I might go back to just doing that. Well, the spreads were a little bigger back then but the concept is still there. You can make a lot of money by studying the price action of a widely traded stock like CSCO and make that pile a little bigger each day.

    Its not impossible. You never see anyone on here promote such a strategy...thats because its a boring strategy at that. Imagine looking at the CSCO ticker everyday for a year all day long. Not exciting. The exciting part came when I looked at my account;)

    Your trades are high-risk and unnecasary. I bet someone who uses a widely traded stock or ultraetf will yield better results within a year.
     
    #436     May 15, 2007
  7. yc47ib

    yc47ib

    PT has done very well actually using tips, based on my observation from this journal, the good trades are all closed by the end of the day; CEGE and TUBR are two examples, which are, if not closed by the end of the day, can see large gap down/up the next morning.

    Since I live on the west coast, and need to get up at 6am to prepare for the market, I do not enjoy pre-market gap downs--cannot get up even earlier. Maybe PT can avoid that by monitoring both after-market and pre-market tradings.

     
    #437     May 15, 2007
  8. ave331

    ave331

    Since your predictions are obvious to you, you must be god :D so why do you need to come to ET, of all places on Earth.

     
    #438     May 15, 2007
  9. gaj

    gaj

    really? high risk?

    he has a tight stop on every trade. he lets his winners run a bit, then takes the winnings.

    so he:
    1) has good risk parameters
    2) has a high % of winning trades
    3) has winners > losers.

    that's *all* that is necessary to be a successful trader. some good traders can get by with just 2 of those 3 traits.
    most people can NOT do that. some very good traders do limit their world to a few individual (usually NYSE) stocks, and make good money.

    but...so what?
    1) who cares if someone can yield 'better' results? he's doing something he's comfortable with, which works. it's not a competition to do better than the best of the best.
    2) as you note, spreads have tightened. CSCO was from 45-85 for the year 2000 with an average range of (eyeballing) 3. past year? 17-29, with an average range of (eyeballing again) less than 50c. some strategies which worked great then are no longer valid.
    3) there are SOME people who can do it successfully - few and far between. if it was so easy, everyone - or YOU - would be doing it. repeatedly. that 5K -> 56K then is probably equivalent to 5K ->10K now.
     
    #439     May 15, 2007
  10. (1) Dont you always want to improve? If not, youre dying.

    (3) That makes no sense. If you are talking about inflation then reduce the 5k also.
     
    #440     May 15, 2007