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+1.5% riding DRI news on the opening. Which ends with me up a little less than 5% on the week with 4 out of 5 winning trades. What have a I learned so far? 1. Beginners luck makes me want to trade more frequently and other catastrophic decisions. Already I can feel myself saying things...

It's almost a relief to get a loss! Again, all of my small caps were fading, so I tried to jump aboard EBAY's rise. It turned around and I sold after losing half a percent rather than playing the fool's game of waiting for it to turn. Better luck tomorrow, maybe.

SNX had a positive earnings report and then crashed on the open... usually good for a bounce. Which I missed by a few seconds. It didn't fall far after that, however, and I waited until it grouchily surrendered 1% and I got out with a pleasant profit. All this good luck can't last.

Grabbed one of the volatility stocks I've been watching, HRBN, in the middle of its opening spike and have been riding it around all morning. I'm exhausted and sold it with a 1.5% gain. I thought I'd avoid limits and stops but it seems in stocks like these they may be necessities. Since I'm...

...and for my first micro cap: MSFT Oh wait. None of the smaller stocks I was watching were going much of anywhere and I saw the big boy spike a percent, hopped on, and gained about 2% before I sold happy. Three cheers for up days.

Since my dividend stocks are likely near some near-term highs, I'm opening a day trading account separate from my investment account with enough equity to profit on one percent moves. I intend this to be fun rather than some get rich scheme, so I've put together some low-impact day trading rules...