Recent content by LaChenille

Started trading live (too early) in December. This is not the job I thought it would be. My biggest mistakes so far have been: 1) Not leaving the office when I reach my stop out for the day Fortunately, I do eventually leave and I am beginning to learn the valuable lesson of...

Closed -96.00 yesterday. I'm still in the simulation mode so the money is not real. Because of that, I've decided that it's better to keep trading than to call it quits for a day (after -50.00 for example). I'm very interested in the SMB Capital Trading Blog. I'm reading One Good Trade...

Another positive day, net $25.40. Long FCX, was up maybe 12 cents and let it ride down to +3 cents and figured I'd take a profit instead of a small loss. Well, it shot down another 4 cents (-1 cent from my initial position) then made a huge move up. I did a bit better on the other two...

Closed positive today, albeit barely. 2 for 2 in the morning and 0 for 2 in the afternoon, net $5.60! Anyone else a little surprised by the 2:36pm eastern candle? I hope I was the only one who got a little burned by it.

INFJ Counselor Idealist.

Hey, thanks for the question. There's really no idea-sharing or training class at my firm so I'm on my own are far as developing strategies (my older brother has been a day trader for about 5 years though). So far, I've tried scalping on the 1 minute chart. I would have to leverage...

3 losing trades in the morning followed by a nice trade in FCX. I was marginally positive but then lost those gains between 1:30 and 2:30 when I was basically churning my own account. I took the small short squeeze in the end in FCX but still ended the day -11.00 before commissions.

Losses in SPY and POT in the mid-day afternoon session wiped out positive trades in CAT, FCX, and MON. Net -61.20 I seem to do better in less expensive equities.

The company that hired me transitioned into new ownership. In addition to that, the 7 and 63 took more time than expected (I did score over 90% on each one though, so I did not need to spend that much time preparing). On Monday I start my 4th week in the office trading on the simulator...

Introduction: I begin work at a proprietary trading firm very soon. The U4 is sent and I'm waiting for confirmation so I can schedule the 7. I hope this only takes a week. Background: Since the beginning of the year I have been day trading with Tradestation software. My strategy has...