Recent content by northstar

All rubbish.

Powerful - yes... Blind and Stupid - yes... Even Ben Bernake has no clue.

Day traders normally use 1 min or less to get in and out of stock quickly. Use candlesticks graph with volume indicators.

All traders have lost their money at some point but that's the point of learning our mistakes and not to repeat it again. Stock market trading is an acquired skill by learning the trade and listening to other peers like the people here. If you're looking to do 50/50 bet or something like that...

Doesn't matter if MM knows if you have stop or limit orders. 2000 to 5000 is like pennies to them since they trade in much larger numbers. MM have advanced system to place buy/sell orders that most of us don't see it until it's too late. They do that to throw us off forcing many traders to...

Most orders gets filled at the opening so I tends to stay away until around 9:45 unless if I know for certain the stock will go up. I don't like to trade inside the channel during the lunch time since the risks are too high.

I usually do the uptrend trades in the morning and short the downtrends in the afternoon because of profit taking.

I have made and lost 20K in one month but that's not stopping me. I'm new at trading and I had made pretty good trades. One rule is to use trailing stop loss order to prevent surprise trap door when the stock tanks quickly. At least you'll be able to keep your capital and not let your emotion...