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Would it be too obvious to refer to the last posts as examples? What benefit do people in general get from this website? I am very confused...

I am not an experience trader by any means, but as a general observation since I joined et.com I have noticed a few things... Experts who are never wrong, skeptics who can't make money and can't figure out how anyone else can, and cryptic figures that may know as much as they claim or much...

My bias is clearly short as you will see in a second. I am feeling more and more comfortable with this style of trading as time progresses... making more and more rules and seeming to take much better trades on average. I *think* that I actually may be *decent* at what I do. Caring less...

I know I said I would do a recap of all of my trades since going fully paper, but today is not the day. Simply too too tired. I would, however, like to reflect on some of the things I am seeing in the markets lately and some trades going forward. I will also reread my journal for some of my...

For a while I felt like yourself. Sometime 5-6 months ago I realized I was a gambler. I knew some very basic things that I learned from several books, but I thought that simply because I had some knowledge, I would be successful because "I can overcome the market", "im smart", "I deserve to...

Really want an entry on ABT tomorrow. Did very well with my HLYS entry today. Not doing so hot with counter-trend trades, but my size is considerably smaller on these as I havn't been successful in this feat before. The only rationale i have for taking the trades is that im attempting to get...

Never gone to one... was going to go to this one, but ending up going to the one in las vegas.

Sold off a lot of my long positions... havn't been doing the journal thing but will start again soon. Went short on a few stocks... distribution signal and double tops have made me a bit bearish. I still feel I may be too early, but I'm testing the waters. Account Equity is a bit screwy...

Was going to place some limit orders yesterday but was way too tired. Missed out on some profitable swings... but in my defense... market doesn't exactly look great right now so I figured if I'm going to hold back on entries it might as well be on a crapshoot day as yesterday. A lot of...

Buy high sell higher.

Well... today was sure ugly... but nothing really tells me that the bull market is over. If we get penetration of the 50 DMAs in several of the indexes and some MA crossovers going, I'll abstain until I know the direction. The 20 DMAs on the indexes all got pretty messed up... support was broken...

Great advice. I went to the RISE conference in Dayton Ohio with my school this year and heard mutual fund managers talking about some of their negative years as great because they outperformed the market. It was sickening... its sad that some people actually pay money for some of these funds.

Read your journal up to the last page... your methods are very close to mine although I do not use much candlestick analysis. I use O'Niel's methods for stock screening and then find setups I like and take them (mostly pullbacks via Landry entries). Anyways, forget what you read on yahoo...

Banked half of my position on DSUP. Raised my stops on both PPD (because 20 DMA moved up) and AIRM.

Cross verification is great... but it usually only matters when you use it with different tools. Trend lines are one tool, but there is also the price bars themselves, volume, fib levels, lagging indicators, oscillators, etc. Cross Verification occurs when these things are telling you the...

Not tooting my own horn here... but the 3 stocks I have left in my holdings, PPD, AIRM, and DSUP are holding exceptionally well in today's down day. DSUP even rose 3 %... it's nuts. Hoping to finish this month with 10% +. We will see... depends on the next week and a half of trading.

To say that you can forsee what a stock can do simply based on TA is rediculous. Traders make decisions based on reactions... they don't try to predict the future. Also, what in the world makes you believe quants draw trend lines all over charts? These are people with phds in concrete...

Gotta admit... I am low on ideas the last few days. Managed to get TC2000 up and running and did a scan. Found nearly nothing... CLF is far out from the 20 DMA,and shows signs of euphoric buying so I am reducing my positon to about 3/4 of what it usually is. (probably should even go to 1/2)...

Doing very well so far following my strategy for buying breakouts/pullbacks... at least for the amount of time I put into my actual trading (not the learning part, the actual execution, research, etc.). Up 5% on my portfolio since I began using my strategy about half a month ago. If I end up...

I think there is confusion here between fill time and time it actually takes to take a trade. I don't think the thread starter is going to clarify or actually knows himself, however.