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Yeah absolutely. I have built a swing trading strategy in the past like this and I'll do it again for this day trading strategy. After some initial demo data collection, I'll start trading with real money and continue collecting data. Journaling never stops.

Yes, should've mentioned that. This is one week of trading. But by your logic, every strategy would have to be tested for atleast 6 months. Doesn't seem practical.

Thanks @easymon1 I'll do that

Who are you referring to?

Back testing is not an option so I need practical numbers. I haven't seen any practical answers yet.

Yeah but they're pretty much the same. So no usable pattern there.

Hi everyone. I want to ask professionals and statisticians, how do I know if I have enough data in my journal to make a decision? I've done about 70 trades with a new strategy and in my journal I'm seeing a pattern (see screenshot). The graph is about my trade distribution across different...

It had nothing to do with the penny stock at all as it turns out. Well, it was hard to borrow because it was a low float penny stock. But the reason for error was I was going net short on the position after accounting for stop loss quantity.

I wan't borrowing, I was selling the shares I already had. Did you read qlai's post?

The hotkey was set to sell half of open position if thats what you're asking.

Thanks for the advice and help. I'll test it out tomorrow.

I think Metamega and qlai are correct. I think I'll need to cancel stop, close half position and recreate stop. Or is there a better way? Is this how you guys do it?

Hi, I started trading live today and ran into an issue with selling a stock. I bought PIXY at 4.61 using a hotkey. When price reached 4.76, I attempted to close half of my position using the hotkey but got an error 'Hard to Borrow'. I also tried the Sell button in the order window, same result...