Recent content by GrowleyMonster

Toss up between psychological and order filling speed. Onr or the other, depending on the trader.

Very very true. Latency and particularly the actual liquidity of the underlying will surprise a lot of extremely successful and enthusiastic paper traders when they first jump into live trading. That of course doesn't mean paper trading isn't important or that it is irrelevant. It is a NECESSARY...

I have a whole shelf of various trading books I no longer need. They are competing for space and I will probably ebay the whole lot when I get around to it. Is posting the listing here allowed? Honestly though for JUST day trading stocks, Andrew Aziz's "How To Day Trade for a Living" pretty...

What basis? Past performance including today. Psychology. And Thibodaux, our pet crawfish, told me. I asked him. He waves his claw when he agrees. My crystal ball seems to not be working correctly. Seriously, I base a lot of trading decisions on what has happened a lot or on what has just...

Ah ok. I asked Mrs Monster and she was stumped. She is usually right on top of all that stuff cause she has a pretty big 401k and she also trades options a lot so she is usually all over information releases, statements, govt and corp reports, etc. "No Growley, don't trade today! Jobless report...

Thanks fr the heads up. What happens then? I don't have a problem with taking a short position if the charts are telling me to. I can't trade Wednesday, anyway but I am all over it tomorrow.

It gained 295 points today, half of it in just one hour. I think it is reasonable to expect a small pullback overnight and then another good rally tomorrow significantly better than 50 points, yeah, unless there is some bad bad news. I did good today trading 3 contracts MNQ. I am very likely to...

"Rubble?" Like what Putin is trying to turn Ukraine into? I agree, the amount of rubble keeps going up. When this war is over, I don't suppose he has a plan to rebuild all the stuff he destroyed? Not with more rubble, I hope.

When anybody stands up and says "God told me this" or insists that God wrote the Bible and then told him what it means and what parts are the important ones, you know the circus has come to town. Again. When religious kooks are so convinced of their absolute rightness that they call out and...

McDonalds needs a Jared. Preferably one who isn't a pedo.

I did. My father was a dictator and my mother was a tyrant. Grandpa was a despot. Yeah they loved me but there was no question of who had the power or whether our family was a democracy or not, or even a market economy.

Set up a free TradingView account. Great charting. and I think you get all the basic indicators in the free version. You can connect to quite a few brokers, as well, but not IB, sadly. I wish I could easily trade my IB account with TradingView. I do have my Alpaca account connected to TV, though.

Wow. Good reasoning! Cuts right through all the BS.

I'll go first. Out of the main ones, MES, MNQ, M2K, and MYM, I have pretty much only traded MNQ. Not much of a reason, I'm afraid. I was told that was the one to trade. I want to try to set aside some time for paper trading the Micros when we have some major projects completed and I am not quite...