Recent content by bbot23

The natural gas report for UNG seems to make the etf move at least 10-30 cents every thursday at 10h30. Are there any other news that make an etf or stock move so much when they announce it?

Disagree as well. I think the skilled trader is able to profit even with random entries, so long as he knows when to exit.

It probably fits retrospectively, I didn't look at it, but that's just because I'm more of a conservative trader: I like trading stocks that have very thick inside bids and offers on normal days, and then suddenly explode in volume. The beauty of those is that you can see the bid or offer...

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25mil is not insanely abnormal, and I only look for top absolute volume. EP had close to 1mil in the first 15 minutes, which is not special. Just don't force it. If the top volume before 10 is still Citigroup, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, SPY, etc, then move on. The special thing about an...

Just screen finviz for top volume and if there is a symbol in the top 20 that you don't recognize, check it out. I don't trade every day, I don't force trades. The point of this post was that it's not necessarily a specific formation and/or combination of signals that give you a statistical...

You're not trading the right product. It's not that you lack discipline, focus, passion, money, or time. It's not that you make mistakes from time to time and have no "edge." The stock you're currently trading just sucks, and you keep going after it even when it doesn't put out, even when...

Is there a way to screen for volatility? My way of trading asks for maximum volatility, but I'm having a hard time screening for stocks that qualify. Usually I look at 1-min charts for the previous day on some arbitrary stock list and choose the ones that have the most and longest, alternating...

I have been day trading at a proprietary firm for years but only until recently I started looking at potential ETFs to day trade (a few weeks ago) and I have some questions... 1. How do ETFs go up or down in price on hardly any volume? Sometimes I notice that the holdings of the ETF are going...

The other day I spent some time looking for random trading-themed toys/gadgets/accessories. Trading is such a big part of my life, I figured why not buy some useless junk too? Here are some websites I browsed: http://www.wallstreetgifts.com/...