You posted at 453pm ET so that would mean in after hours. If so, come on. Pre and post market are anything goes times. Btw were you short? If not, what were you waiting for to get out of long?
I'm sure it's just my brain noticing all of the negative instances like some stated, but it sure seems like it happens a lot. My last trade did happen to be an after-hours trade, but that's rare. I bought MSFT at the end of the day to hold overnight, but I became neutral on it, and put a sell order in, not caring if it filled or not. These days I tend to go long, rather than short. Seems to make the trading life easier.
It happens to me alot. I think the market master spooks all us retail traders. That or the orders i put are always round numbers.
And now to show my ignorance, when using Think or Swim, why is the DOM nearly empty whenever I pull it up? Shouldn't the price ladder be filled with orders for big-name stocks such as TSLA? Every time I pull it up, it looks like a thinly traded penny stock. I'm talking during trading hours, not after hours.
Well if you enter in after hours - like I said previously - anything goes. I don't trade equities at all but if I did and and entered as you did I would get out right then and there where offers were at. I hope this doesn't come across as too harsh but your whole premise is how newbies think. Good luck.
I think you shorted the market. But because your STOP was very tight/small, you got STOPPED OUT / you lost $$$$ because the market went up and hit your STOP. Then you shorted the market again. But because your STOP was very tight/small, you got STOPPED OUT / you lost more $$$$ because the market went up and hit your STOP. Then you shorted the market again and again. But because your STOP was very tight/small, you got STOPPED OUT / you lost even more $$$$ because the market went up and hit your STOP. And the whole cycle continues again and again and again, day after day There is nothing wrong with the market. The market can jump up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down .... It might continue to jump up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down .... tomorrow, next day ... Always accept the fact.
If this is true you are the best market timer in the world. You should make billions trading intraday
%% MAKES plenty of sense to sell @247area, but frankly especially with msft\qqq, pennies are all over the map. SO a problem of pennies or a penny miss is not really a msft problem; especially with a 50 day moving average@$247 I do my own research; but barchart has MSFT as long term sell[200dma sell, so far so good] But OOPS /short term + 50dma medium term its a buy; so trying to take pennies or ''penny'', may want to do things differently. MRO reversed after i cut a loss/LOL. But its a lot more orderly than MSFT. Good volume on DVN, they sold it so much, buyers did ok on weekly. Hint; $ come before pennies on all data