Had to be a hell of a adrenaline rush, 16k loss had to be pretty brutal. But looks like the wins outweigh the losses by far.
I am 42 before cell phones,and i have become so accustomed to modern tech. This just seems right out of the flintstones. I get so amazed at how people hashed out a living in times where news and tech was so scarce. And on the other hand most of the great discoveries where made before electricity was broadly popular. Its simply amazing how clever we are as humans.
1 Trade, called the perfect bottom, caught a very quick call it 200pt run up, YES, sat there going wild worth a lot to me +$4000 area, finally thought that's enough, went to the account errr orders closed, WTF, closed at a $1000 loss, errr margin hit, errrr ohhhhh I'd hit Short not long!! Good times, great this trading
I know if you where out on a 4 wheeler with me one of us would get hurt. You seem like a pretty cool dude. ( i barely broke a rib and rode 2 more days on it ) You can't quite just becuase stuff is broke. lol That was a pretty great story.
Yep, the universe hates me for sure LOL Another 1, huge 200pt move, 10seconds before it hit ( by fluke ), had mouse pointer over close position, cat jumped up hit the mouse, closed it, NOOOO crap crap crap, bang news hit and too damn late
I hope i can avoid some of that. I have paper account with ib and so far its been very much the same. Navigating through the platform has been cumbersome. But its been fun and kinda of learning the system. But i can for sure see how you can invert the position from buy to sell. I did a couple of shorts and just had a hell of time making the system do what i want.
Thank you guys all for responding, it gives me a bit of hope that there some cash out there waiting for me. Some great stories from some real people rather than reading something from a book, i have come up with a few good ideas from all your stories. So i am very thankful.
Best of luck ringing the cash register...those sure were some awe inspiring stories maybe Jack Schwager will steal a couple for his new book..ha!