Recent content by flyingdutch

I often trade pre and post market. During premarket it's easy to check where the action is because the "Daily Volume" starts with 0 for the day, so it's just a matter of sorting your list on volume to see where the action is during premarket. But how to detect what is moving postmarket? You...

Notice that nothing in my reasoning is based on what happened AFTER the disaster date. Just put a paper just before "disaster date" and you'll come to the same conclusions. And yes, IF I would have taken the short (which I wouldn't be to sure about), I would have made a bundle. Unfortunately I...

hmmm, now that shines a different light on the situation. I agree that everyone makes losses from time to time. You cannot be right all the time. But if you want to make money, you'ld better be sure that you put everything you can into your favour before entering a trade. So let's have a closer...

after the numerous replies here, where other people say that they know XYZ who'd lost Yk$, the things that are missing is: "what was the account size?". I'm sorry but whatever trader you are, for a prop firm, a private trader or whatever, if after 4 years you blow away 65% of your account on ONE...

If after 4 years of trading, you take a loss of 65k on a 100k account (including margin if I understand it well) than, you just have missed some very basic principles that separates the (few) winners from the loosers. It also shows that you haven't learned even the most basic principles about...

After all the more complicated questions I answered to before in the last days, finally this is an easy one. Now before answering I have to make some suppositions: 1. Capital is not a problem 2. In both cases you are a winner and you know exactly when to get in when to get out, how to do...

If you are a day trader (and isn't this site supposed to be dedicated to that?), than I would say, with less than 50k, don't bother. Your subscription fees to professional services, commissions, slippage, a couple of drawdowns, and you're out of the game. I think a "decent" start level would be...

Have you read the smallprint or other "general conditions". These are normally hidden somewhere very deep into a site written with a 6 point size, with lawyer language that noone understands. Is there a minimum account size required? a minimum trade size, a minimum number of trades? What is you...

Have you read the smallprint or other "general conditions". These are normally hidden somewhere very deep into a site written with a 6 point size, with lawyer language that noone understands. Is there a minimum account size required? a minimum trade size, a minimum number of trades? What is you...

I also do daytrading, so cannot say anything for swingtrades. A daytrader can only surive (and in a good case make money), by trading "thin stocks". If you trade "thick stocks" (MSFT, CSCO) you're just having a nice time, but not making money in the long run, or veeerrrrryyy slllooooowwwly...

Sounds a lot like a virus/spyware problem to me. However, the fact that you have changed the disk puts me at doubt. How did you replace it? Did you "ghosted" your old disk and restored it on the new one? Or did you start from scratch, clean OS, reinstall aps etc. In the second case, you clearly...

because, if you are using 3-4-5 screens it probably means you are running several memory extensive applications. Personnaly , when people ask my advice for e setup for DAYtrading, as far as memory is concerned , I would set thge absolute minimum limit to 1gb. (I'm running with only 2Gb, but it's...

For me , stop levels are closely related to : -risk/reward ratio -which is related to the ATR -the position size -your account size and the overall risks you want to take. Without going into too much detail (because I think I could write a book about it), here's in short how I use...

Sorry, I don't qualify. Only 9990/month..:( TFD