Recent content by buckoboy

My most successful strategies are not overworked. The number of variables that go into a stock screener are best when kept to a minimal. Its easy to create a successful backtested strategy when you tailor it with 20 conditions. This is a sure fire sign the strategy was created for a...

Lescor - I just finished reading your entire thread and have to say I have real respect for what you are accomplishing. I have a question that I hope you can answer. In a post, you mention you will open trades and step away from the computer for several hours. Can you discuss how you...

I'll check out Stock Market Wizards. Is there a book in which you base your trading style? The reason I ask is because I've been trading for 3 years now and have recently fallen into a huge downhill roll. No mater which way I trade, I can't get it right and am personally becoming skeptical...

Neke, What is the greatest lesson you learned since you started trading? What are you doing now that you didn't do in your early years that lead to your success?

Good luck! As you progress on your journey, I'd love if you could compare the differences between stocks and futures. Not just technically but also psychologically. Are you quitting stocks altogether for now and concentrating solely on the ES?

What a day...won't be forgotten anytime soon. Sold at the bottom of FAZ and then turned around and bought FAS and got stopped out. I need a break!

Preach on brother! LOL

I feel your pain...every minute thinking, this has to be the bottom but it never happened. I threw in the towel on my FAZ trade a bit over $35. Discipline needs to be king!

For FAZ, where did you buy in, and are you still holding? I trade it religiously and usually don't hold for more than an hour or two for a quick profit. But right now I am in your boots. I bought in at $45.40 on Thursday. Until now, I never try calling bottom, but at the time it made too...

I went to covestor with my issue that their performance was not accurate and I just received a post back that states... "...yes we are nearing the launch of our new performance system. The main reason this occurs is because cash is not accounted for. With the new launch this will be taken...

Does anyone use these websites, or is there a better way to track performance?

Never feel you have to make your money back in the same stock you're losing money on. By holding onto a losing stock, you are telling yourself you don't know how to find a better stock out there. That kinda like holding onto a bad girlfriend hoping she will get better. Dump that stock's butt...

I want to know the best/most popular website to track trading performance. I have been a member of Covestor.com (profile name NateBZ) since 12-1-08 and do not like how it calculates returns. If I make a 5% profit in a single trade with 50% of my portfolio, Covestor will show my portfolio...

You only need two stocks to follow, one for the up market and the other for the down market. Take a look at my commentary here and you can even see how I'm actually doing with my theory put to practice. After reading, click on Fact sheet and look at me verses the market...