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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Today I made 0.5 per a share out of 6 trades. However, I think it is not efficient enough to make money. since my trading size is 500shares. Even though I made $250 on these trades I end up paying about $75 in commission. But actually I am very happy that I made some money. :> In japan...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Hello Today I made some trades. Mostly, I tried to scalp since I had missed entering a good setup because I had headiche ajd couldnit stand watching the monitors. So I took medichine and rested about 4 hours. The first an hour from 13:30 to 14:30 after I woke up, I was trying to catch up...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    What I really dont understand in this website is that for example if a person have 50,000 USD in his margin account, will he be able to trade when the cost of all trades exceed 50k(200k?since its 25% of total cost during that day?)? (condition : this person above exits the previous...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Thanks nkhoi I just talked (via chat from their website) to IB representitive and the person said that I need to wait another day to trade more often.... He/she said that my account status is sufficient to be qualified pattern day trader status(?) which I really didnt understand but then...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Hello, AAAintheBeltway Its good to know someone is actually reading my journal. :) Now I realize that real trading is 20000000000 times scarier than paper-trading. When I was paper-trading I could enter any setup that looked good. However, in real trading, I froze up.... There is a...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    there was a mistake INTC 500 shares Bought @15.21 sold @ 15.39
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Thank you for the response, AllenCook :D I just made my first trade. and like someone advised me to start small, I decided to do so. INTC 500 shares Bought @15.22 sold @ 15.39 the reason I entered long postion atm was INTC, and Compx were making Higher high and Higher low so I entered...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    thank you for the replies I really appliciate and am very encouraged. today looked like a great day to trade. I was so excited to trade and yesterday i couldnt sleep enough (i almost vomit).....and this evening(morning in NY) I found that my money was not in the account yet.....even I...
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    the reason why I havent tried to trade Asian stock or index futures is because I ve never seen them before and paper-traded Nasdaq/Dow stocks for long and I am very comfortable with them. But thank you for the advice. I am going to look if I can trade it with my strategy. ojo
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    North Korean Nuc. Program

    USA must protect japan we have a contract to do so!! Thats why Japan has been paying all the wages and expenses for the american army and navy in Japan!! this is the most dangerous situation both japan and USA encountereed since WW2!! help Japan!! ur Wife!!
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    Aphie's REAL Trading Journal

    Hello Im also going to start trading tomorrow and will have a journal "a newbie trading journal" here the post you made earlier in this journal is helpful to me and I wish mine to be the same to the others :>
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    A Newbie Trading Journal

    Hello some people maybe remember me that I made a few posts regarding wether I should trade in a prop firm or by my own. and alot of people helped me to figure out which suits me the best. I thank to all the people who answered my questions, made helpful advice, and gave me further...
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    about tax...

    Sorry I couldnt get the connection until now. I am on vocation in Singapore with my family The food is really nice here
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    Nvidia Multi-Monitor Cards

    I think Matrox has good for multiple monitor solution If you dont play games then you pick G200 multi Quad (something like that) get it from Ebay... I think its about 159 now its PCI so you can use it with your AGP card or you may grab 2 G450 PCI version does the same job and better...
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    Flat Panel Monitors

    for CRTs Sony's are great For LCD I would pick Sharp's the latest ones
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    Flat Panel Monitors

    I wish if I could use the monitor on Pcs without modifying something I forgot but I read "how" somewhere It looks really cool
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    Mem Upgrade

    I have never had problem with using cheapest RAMs Now I have Athlon XP 1.4Ghz system (266 bus) and I combine with PC100 and PC133 SDRAMs and using as PC133. I think that PC100 and PC133 use same mem modules. but its all depends on mobos What kind of motherboard do you use?
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    Motherboard upgrade

    long time ago On windows 98 I ve done that before. Celeron 566Mhz (overcloced to 850Mhz ) to Athlon system but I had to start from formatting my HDDs (there were recognision problems) I think on Win XP (im not sure on Win2k) You can do it without reinstalling the OS I really love WinXP...
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    What is the best intraday market

    Hello I like KLAC it moves alot :> If I have really alot of money I would trade QQQ since I heard that there are no effect on prices by my order but I dont know about it so much.
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    Which is better...

    " I don't know how seriously to take you Ojo. Having paper-traded for so long should have seasoned you to realize that your method will be ineffective sometimes. " What I am doing on paper is very simple (as I wrote, Its Support and resistance but different way to draw lines) I found this...
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