Recent content by HuntingBenjamins

You guys are REALLY raining on the parade! :D God knows there are plenty of guys (dare I say millions?) who have figured something out. Only reason I put up with this nonsense is nothing I ever became good at came easy so even though the shenanigans are crazy I figure I eventually will get a...

Would love to hear others war stories in dealing with and learning to trade on the stock market. Could be good entertainment. I’ve only been doing this for about 9 months and in that time I went from 40% up to 15% down. Bound and determined to put some kind of rhyme or reason to it. God knows...

So…how’d that work out?

P.S. If that particular stock takes a dump tomorrow…I won’t feel bad for anyone. Just saying…

I gotta post this in case any other newbies make the same mistake and get pissed off at themself. Many things I’ve done in this journey turned out to be lessons. I actually read a few books over the last few weeks that were great and provided me with some valuable information. Nothing you read...

I did try shorting once just not my thing. Still getting comfortable with what I’ve got going on. Not to mention the one time I did short there was some clear market manipulation going on with the particular stock I chose to experiment with. Just bad luck in the one I chose. Got out once I...

I’m just swing trading

Funny you bring this up as the entire win/loss ratio thing has made it onto my radar several times this week in my reading. I chose these numbers when I started out because the math was easier but just recently am learning I need to take a better look. Based on your response I need to need to...

Sorry don’t mean my whole account. I try to stick to about 500 shares on something. Lately I’d start by about 200 and then adjust depending on the trade but keep mis-judging that and some will do the full run of the swing before I get 500 in it. This is a new technique for me though because I’m...

Yeah I got a new friend who suggested it to me and he does rather well momentum trading. That’s why I’m investigating that type of trading. I just can’t make it click yet but in a leap of faith I tried a few that were suggested and they all made money. I just ent into them small. On HUYA I...

I should also mention that up until August my swing methodology was through support and resistance markers and that did work pretty good for me. My problem was not getting out soon enough when things like August happen. However, I took a break for a couple months and have been trying more of a...

The stock was HUYA. The support on this one was at 3.40 but I considered it on a run. Then it biffed it. When it sank below $3.40 I assumed there was something going on with it that I just didn’t realize and I was already down 5% so I just got out of it….only to discover that this really was...

Thought I’d update you guys. Well I did really good from the time I started last April/May. I was up nearly 50%. And then August happened. All the reverse miracles happened (when negative things happen that shouldn’t be able to happen…but then they do). My 3 months of gains were nearly wiped out...

Now certainly wasn’t the time to do it. I lost 98% of my “wins” for the year between august and September. Got a good lesson on the whole thing about learning when to cut your losses. Saw a lot of things that my rookie outlook wasn’t expecting to happen. In fact things that there was no way it...