Took break from trading, but I know you cannot give up

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Make Dough Repeat, Feb 20, 2017.

  1. Can you put some numbers to the story (not $$ amount), but perhaps what your limit order was and how much off that number the broker came back with at the end of the day?
     
    #11     Feb 20, 2017
  2. Robert Morse

    Robert Morse Sponsor

    The error should have been more timely than the end of day. I was a floor official on the AMEX and we had time constraints.
    https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse-arca/NYSE Arca Rule 7.10.pdf
     
    #12     Feb 20, 2017
  3. Overnight

    Overnight

    Ding ding ding. We have a winner!

    1.5 BILLION shares of stock float? You're wasted to think investing in a pink-sheeter like that is a good idea. In fact, all OTC is a wasted idea. You can find a perfect example of what a pink-sheet stock is like if you just look at "crowd-funding".

    You're giving money to person A who says they are going to do thing B, and will give you a return on thing B. Person A then says, "Sorry, thing B did not work out. So long and thanks for all the fish (what you invested in thing B.) Sincerely, person A. (Buh-bye)"
     
    #13     Feb 20, 2017
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  4. Simples

    Simples

    Taking a break from trading sounds healthy, there's hookers and booze and coke in life too ya know :p

    Seriously, what you are trying to accomplish can be seen as predatory practice to some degree. Getting majorly rich quickly, quickly leads to getting screwed over majorly. There's all kinds of circuit breakers, maintenance and monitoring going on in order to prevent price from running too fast. Otherwise, it'd all come crashing down or jump all over the place. In fact, you can still see it in some EOD-data that this has been a problem in the past.
     
    #14     Feb 20, 2017
  5. I definitely used to think this too. But when I saw a "master" type touting them, I thought maybe this way of thinking has changed. For example, MCOA still manages to trade with some serious volume, so I don't see the issue with OTC when the issue has volume. Am I completely wrong??
     
    #15     Feb 20, 2017
  6. Overnight

    Overnight

    Give it a shot. What is the worst that can happen? Oh, you can lose your entire investment in a day when the company abruptly shuts down and de-lists. *shrugs*

    Happy trading!
     
    #16     Feb 20, 2017
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  7. OK, so OTC should not be traded in your opinion? Do you stick to the higher priced stuff? I used to only trade stocks with 500K vol and priced above 5. But now that I am getting back into it, I have been turned on to the sub dollar stuff with volume. Seems like it's a disaster waiting to happen. Was stalking a different marijuana last week (another marijuana play) and of course I didn't buy. Next day went up 33%... Anyway take a look at MCOA on the weekly and you can see why I thought it's interesting. To me it looks similiar to how I would trade a non-otc stock. Any thoughts on my charting? Or avoid at all costs?!
     
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    #17     Feb 20, 2017
  8. JackRab

    JackRab

    You were up $3mln? On an account size of what... 10k? Pretty obvious that that was a mistrade...

    Although, you sure seem to pick your stocks... what the hell is DRYS? They were trading at an equivalent price of about 1,500,000 a while back... so they have reversed-split the shit out of that....
     
    #18     Feb 20, 2017
  9. JackRab

    JackRab

    These are what I call WTF-stocks... and I wouldn't call it trading, but gambling. Could be a good gamble, just don't call it trading...
     
    #19     Feb 20, 2017
  10. algofy

    algofy

    To me it's very clear that this is a troll thread. Does nobody else see this?
     
    #20     Feb 20, 2017
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