Recent content by 88years

lost on all trades today. didn't get filled at 21.60 to exit CLF and ended up losing money on that one too... *sigh* 11:03am Short 200 ASH 17.04 12:07pm Cover 200 ASH 17.20 (-0.16) -$26 11:03am Buy 200 LAMR 16.02 11:17am Sell 200 LAMR 15.77 (-0.25) -$35 11:31am Buy 100 CLF...

Somehow miscalculated and took on more risk than I had wanted for ASH... I need to focus! 10:56am Buy 300 M 13.14 11:35am Sell 150 M 13.34 (+0.20) 12:26pm Sell 150 M 13.08 (-0.06) +$6 11:09am Buy 200 ASH 17.72 12:30pm Sell 200 ASH 17.29 (-0.43) -$96 11:42am Buy 200 LAMR 16.10...

Kind of silly of me today. I entered two opposite positions in 2 highly correlated stocks... =( 10:31am Buy 200 PPS 12.55 11:05am Sell 200 PPS 12.27 (-0.28) -$66 10:46am Short 200 LNC 9.36 11:47am Cover 200 LNC 9.64 (-0.28) -$66 ------------ -$132 month: +$240

Right. I had the tendency before to move my stops before because I thought I knew better than the plan I had set out earlier. Kind of silly, fighting with my own rules. I find that when I'm away from my computer, I do a lot better. =P

Well, I do love McDonalds =) Thanks, I'll look into switching over to IB. I'm a little worried about putting $15k more into trading and how that will affect me psychologically, but if I'm going to be actively trading, the commissions and slippage will kill me, as it seems to be adding up already.

Got mostly stopped out today... 10:38am Short 200 M 11.65 11:35am Cover 200 M 11.58 (+0.07) +$4 10:47am Short 200 PFG 12.93 11:06am Cover 100 PFG 12.58 (+0.35) 11:31am Cover 100 PFG 12.77 (+0.16) +$36 10:51am Buy 200 FAZ 11.25 11:07am Sell 100 FAZ 11.55 (+0.30) 11:58am Sell 100...

You're right. Considering I've made 19 trades in the past 3 days, that was $171 extra in commissions that I've paid....which is almost 50% of my total profit so far! *sigh*... Unfortunately, I've allocated only $10000 of it's-ok-if-I-lose-it-all money to this daytrading endeavor, as I...

11:23am Buy 200 FAZ 9.87 12:43pm Sell 100 FAZ 10.38 (+0.51) 1:34pm Sell 100 FAZ 10.42 (+0.55) +$91 ------------ +$91 month: +$344

10:38am Short 200 CRZO 11.46 12:44pm Cover 200 CRZO 11.50 (-0.04) -$18 11:23am Buy 200 M 12.42 2:40pm Sell 100 M 12.72 (+0.30) 3:28pm Sell 100 M 12.89 (+0.47) +$62 11:30am Buy 200 STLD 10.50 12:29pm Sell 100 STLD 10.85 (+0.35) 3:35pm Sell 100 STLD 11.25 (+0.75) +$95 11:34am...

10:40am Buy 100 MET 25.97 11:32am Sell 100 MET 25.65 (-0.32) -$42 12:30am Buy 100 TNA 22.49 2:23pm Sell 100 TNA 22.64 (+0.15) +$5 12:43pm Short 100 FAZ 13.86 3:30pm Cover 100 FAZ 11.97 (+1.89) +179 ------------ +$142

I've been trading full-time for 8 months now in small amounts, attempting to create a profitable method so that I can start using more capital. I've won some and lost some but ultimately I just can't stay consistently profitable... ARGH!! Every time it seems like I've worked out a consistent...