Recent content by BarOpen

Looks like your "Dad" is teaching you well. You don't need luck, just hard work and do what "Dad" says. Stick with it, at your age you will be a great trader. Remember, Most people don't start their careers until they are in their 20's so it takes until they are 50 or 60 to be tops in...

another new article: http://www.businessinsider.com/nebraska-nuclear-meltdown-2011-6

Am I the only one that finds this wierd? Did anyone ever think the time would come when The President of the United States "Obama" would be at the helm when we took out the bad guy of the the middle east "Osama" What political good fortune for Obama. Do you think any news paper will...

There are fewer traders, and its happy hour somewhere.

In addition to the above....If markets were a smooth curve everyone would just buy and hold. With all the price action people buy and sell, making the brokers for these transactions tons of money. Taking out the stops creates more volitity and price action causing more trades. Just think of...

Light speed has that. One button closes all positions.

Thank you Spy, very insightful The screeners I have can't scan for items 3,4,5,6 can you recomend a screener or point me in the correct direction. The 20% movement sounds like that would be related to volitility or ATR or am I missing the point? How big is your universe of stocks?

Also, If you have a strategy that is say 50/50 on 1000 stocks. but 90% winners on 20 of 1000...would that be curve fitting or is there unseen risk to just play those 20? What does that say about the Strategy.

Hi all… I’m trying to scale down my universe of stocks. I think I am making the typical Newb mistake of trying to be a “Jack of all trades and master of none” by watching/scanning too many stocks. How many stocks should a new guy focus on during the day? How many charts should I...

I too had to have a fast XP machine with six monitors. This is what I did... Print out all the spec's from trading computers dot com Take it to your local computer shop and tell them you can get it on line for 1600.00 but you would rather give them the business. (Would they like to bid on...