Recent content by Vel

Wow, I take it you've been burned pretty bad and suck at the trading thing considering you're advice. For someone that obviously must hate the system, you sure have a hi post count

I told my best friend. He at least has faith in me. I'm not one to back out of anything I say i want to do. It was only a few short years ago i was totally physically unmotivated to change my appearance, which was a 175 lb, overwight and out of shape guy. I said i was going to change myself, and...

yeah very good tips. I find it odd actually how much negativity there is from people in the daytrading thing, however. I was in an IRC chat today after hours looking for newbie advice. All i got really initally was once again "Oh you're not gonna make it, only 3% of anyone who daytrades...

ok guys..So let me ask a question..If there was one book out there that could encompass most of what you know about daytrading, has it been printed yet? Also..if you could do it all over again, for absolute ease of learning the whole market and everything..How would you start off? For...

I'll have to disagree with you on that one. I've heard all the skepticism, and It's my opinion that all the horror stories and general stories of loss happen because you're just an idiot and don't play it safe. I know when people make comments like you just did, they do it to scare you so...

ok guys thanks a bunch for the pointers. I have basically decided that in all honesty, day trading is going to be the only career option that I would be able to handle. I want to make a million bucks in 5 years. I'm a genrally unmotivated person but something happened in the past week to...

yeah, eventually what I'm going to do after reading some books is sign up for one of those online training courses like at mtrader.com. Anyone suggest anythign esle?

thanks guys. See I don't even know what an ecn is or a spread. All I really know is..watch the news, buy low, sell hi.

it's the net i expect nothing more.

I'm new to the whole stock thing and am just messing around with software doing paper trading and learning as i go. I'm using software from realfasttrader.com. Anyway, what I'd like to know is, can I place an order, and have it filled before 10 am or can you only buy and sell starting at 10? Say...

well i actually will hopefully be setting it up using realistic money. For instanc,e yeah they might toss me 200k in my account, but I'm only going to be using probably 5 k of it to simulate what I would actually make if I did have 5 k to blow, tho' I know they say don;t start unless you got...

I'm currently using Lycos investment challenge. it's killing me. it definately won't let me do what i want to because it takes a half hour for an order to go through :( Are there any simulations out there that actually work on real time?