Recent content by sfbayarea

I concur with BMK on this.. I have a margin account and so everything is in this stock. In fact, I owe the brokerage 12k for holding more shares than I have in cash. My day trading profits do go to pay off the loans however. This is done slowly as I don't make large sums of money trading. I...

Thanks BMK for your response. So for my situation, I have bought and kept shares at various dates of that stock, while I have also day traded the same symbol. I have done a ton of trades for that symbol (A lot). This is in the same account. So do I basically need to go back and do a spread...

Hi All, I'm an active day trader. Before this year, I day traded all the time on my only trading account. I held no positions going into this year. However this year, there is a stock that I wanted to keep long term. I have over time accumulated a 10k share position on the stock in my...

I can see the black swan event happening in both directions because sudden news can come out at anytime and kill what would be a normal trade. These black swan events usually happen with extremely high volume as whatever the event is can override normal trading conditions. I have thought about...

So the guy never had a losing day for 9 months straight? If this is true, then I need to shut up and let this forum thread die.

I have taken mental stops before when I was down too much. But then I realized that stops whether actionable or mental are the source of my losses. Don't get me wrong, it is very mentally hard to trade without stops. I recall when stops used to kill me especially on barb wire formations.

That's what people have told me here before. Believe me, I have found something close to the Holy Grail for trading. I have been blessed and feel extremely lucky to find this. So far, I refuse to lose and it's been two months now. Obviously, what I'm seeing and using to trade and what you're...

No Risk/Reward Ratio. I do not use stops because I do not like taking losses. I do occasionally take losses due to wrong button pushing or reading something wrong and I get out quick because I did not mean to jump in, other than that, no stops. My profits are a mental game, I still sell...

Not new here... After losing for 5 years, I believe that I've finally turned the corner. I haven't had a losing day this last month (pretty much the previous month before that too) and so far made up for the losses of last year. I believe I've found something very close to the holy grail of...

Just curious, how many winning days do people here need to see from a 90-100% trader to be convinced this trader is legit and has found the holy grail? 90-100 winning days in a row?

Just as the thread name says, I'm curious what the readers here think and how much one would be willing to pay to learn the techniques to be 90-100% always positive trader (essentially never or rarely have a losing trade). I've read some high frequency trading companies never have losing...

Been a long time since I've been here. I use Lightspeed and still do. The platform is good. Much better than Scottrade when I first got into this stuff. Lightspeed charges around $21 a month for market data and $100 a month if you don't generate $100 in commissions. The $100 is not a...

I was very depressed about posting trades on and after the 13th.. since I lost big in two days. But the rest of the month was hard work to get it back. 03/13 -650 03/14 -184 03/17 + 65 03/18 + 51 03/19 +116 03/20 + 75 03/21 + 75 03/24 + 89 03/25 + 92 03/26...