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Yes. Many. A lot worse. It appears that you limited your losses very well considering you jumped around trading one thing after another. Choose one or two things to trade and master their nuances. The technicals will be the same no matter what you trade, but the knowledge of short...

I knew Robert had offers somewhere up there above .37 after price pulled back from that level. He made me promise not to look at the chart of BID in case it attempted a final push near his offers (I have a notorious "death stare" that causes anything I would like to short to drop immediately out...

It looks like you shorted a pullback in an uptrend. You can try fading a run up in an uptrend (not my favorite move), you can short once a double top or lower high in an uptrend is established (happens right around 10:00 am and this is my favorite move), but don't short the PULLBACK to the trend...

Of course 'tis I asked schiz this question, I who cuts all my winners short! "I shorted here earlier. Good or Bad?" Not bad IMHO. Once just about 50% of that previous bar retraced leaving a lower high after three strong pushes up. I'd say that's a good short and should be held until at least...

+$494 Mainly in sim today with CL and ES. Maybe another week or two before going live. Working the bugs out my amazing ability to cut winners short.

I shorted @ 81.05 and covered @ 81.01. Gotta learn to let winners run esp on such a strong setup. That's why I'm not trading live yet. If I cut winners off like that all the time, one loss wipes out my gains :confused: :confused:

I was just gonna ask if you guys trade this low vol midday mush. I guess no one's making a big move until Beige book. It took me 10 mins to catch my last .09 cent move. I don't have that kind of patience!

As soon as I saw that big hammer left on my 5-min chart I figured something was up. Had a good trade from 79.87, but it would've been killer if I hadn't trailed my damn stop.

OK, I think we all gotta give BP credit for that one :cool: I'm learning bad habits sim trading CL. If I trade without stops, I make a lot more money. Hmmm.. looks like I won't be going live for a while till I figure that one out.

Yeah, or at least buy puts to protect it. Damn.

Come on, who would hold that many shares long overnight pre-announcement? You use option spreads to play that game. What kind of firm ya'll working for???

I posted on Sunday night where this current leg would go: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2749285#post2749285 And I'm not gonna tell you where it's gonna go next because you're a mean trader and I'm a reversion to mean trader. :D

http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicCalendar.htm

Don't you know, you're only supposed to PRETEND to cover; price always drops after we cover our shorts. (I covered my sim short @ 80.32) :p

I scribbled a note about this trade, never put in a buy stop order, because price dropped that day, and then saw the breakout on the hi ticker today. Beautiful call. Hope YOU got this one!

These breakouts are really padding my sim account nicely :D

+$320 I was planning no live trades today, strictly spent the morning sim trading and analyzing price action on CL from pre-market through the opening hour (I'm looking to trade CL and ES exclusively in the near future). Then I saw DNDN hitting the hi ticker like crazy. By the time I looked...

NFLX had a strong break through previous resistance today on no particular news I can find. They face quite a bit of competition from many sides, and I'm curious what the appeal of the stock is at this price (P/E of 35). I'd expect a P/E like that on a retail-type company where the...

Pre-market trading is a loser's game. You want to wait and see the reaction of potential buyers and sellers to any pre-market gap before trading. When I was very new at trading I bought a put contract for a company that was reporting earnings the next morning. It was a low-cost gamble based on...