Recent content by btaylor966

I would hope there might be more hope here on this board. All I seem to hear is there is no way to make an investment and get a return on it in the stock market. Jesse Livermore made and lost many fortunes from what I read and maybe he was not a happy man for many reasons, that I do not know. I...

Slapshot, I do realize it will take time to learn how to properly trade but what if you select some really fine companies and not trade so much and just hold on? When do you decide its time to get out rather than hold on to a roller coaster all the way to the bottom. I think one problem is...

The answer to your questions are as follows: Why 95000, the amount of cash I had in a self directed ROTH IRA. This is not all I have in the ROTH and we own several pieces of real estate as well in the ROTH that produces more income that I hope to trade. My living expenses are taken care of...

I have been papertrading until about a month and a half ago and then started a real money account at Think or Swim. Needless to say I was doing well with papertrading but not with real money now. I definitely do not want to lose all of my money here. I started with 95000 and now have a bit over...

I am a new trader and do not want to go through even a couple of years, I have been looking at MACD's and Stoastics and now Candlesticks. Am I under some kind of illusion that this will work along with trending?