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I'm so pissed right now but here is my question, I had a short that I was up $200 I was in at 8.85 and was covering at 8.79. The bid ask was 8.78-8.79. When I went to cover, I got filled at 8.91! So i ended up -$200 on the trade! I used a market order to cover but why did I get filled so...

Does any one know how to do an average of more then 30 numbers in excel? The function AVERAGE(A1:A30) can only do up to 30 numbers and I want to try to do and average of around 120. Am I missing something? I don't know why I can't figure it out.

I was wondering if anyone has some good guidelines for proper use of buying power using 4:1 margin. I read in the Turtle Traders rules that they used 80% of their buying power. So if they had 100k in BP they would use 80k. If their buying power dropped to 80k then they would drop the BP to...

-$1078 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Stoped out on one trade and chased another and got bit... sucks to start a month like this. Seems like my losses move against me alot faster then my gains move for me.

Doing better since adding more buying power. I wouldn't take small profits before because I would still be a net looser after commissions. Now those small profits can still net me $100 or so. Also working with a mentor a couple days a week so it's going good.

Ha Ha Ha, everyone point their finger and laugh at Casper.:mad: Would have had my first $1,000 day ever but I still had my order template pointing to my paper trading account. So I made $1,010 in fake money:mad: :mad: :mad: When I realized what had happend I switched to my real account...

Took a break for a while and paper traded. First day back with some added buying power.

These two guys are walking near a river when they see this piece of shit floating down the river. All of a sudden the piece of shit starts talking and says "Hey guys, come on in the water is fine!" So the one guy turns to the other and says "You believe that shit?..... How does snoop dog...

I can tell you personally the transition didn't work well for me but my trades are all discretionary so it might be a little different. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51909 I found out that that the fills you get paper trading bear little resemblance to going...

I've been trading with them for a little over 2 months. No problems here. They are expensive though, $25 to wire money in, $55 to wire out and I pay on average of $29 for a round trip. A 100 lot round trip will cost around $23! It's the only game in town for some one under 25k to trade...

Lost alot yesterday, basically put my self back a square one. I have yet to come up with a good exit stategy. Yesterday I wanted to let my winners run and was +100, but stuck to my stops and wanted to let it run and it reversed and took me out. Today I took profits earlier and the price...

1 gap trade -$170 1 10am rule trade +$349

Took profits before I hit my stop loss and should have stuck to it because I would have been up alot more. I can't complain to much, could have been down.

Limiting my self to 1 trade a day. Trying not to blow up my tiny account.

Does any one know where I can find historical intraday charts? The oldest I can find is 10 days. I've been taking screen shots of charts when I trade them but I just started doing it. I want to go back and look at my old trades.

My first positive week since going live on July 1st and a good end for the week for me.

Faded the gap up on OVTI. Shorted 15.22 @ 9:41 Covered at 14.88 @ 9.48 I was looking for it to drop under 15 and cover there. It passed through 15 and kept going, covered when decline stalled.

Should have been alot higher but hit a wrong button entering my stops.

Just an arbitrary price target of a $1 from my entry. That's why I was saying it was just luck/coincidence that it was almost an absolute bottom.

From the low of the day up until a little while ago. I had a buy stop at 31.81 and got filled. The price dropped to 31.80 and then rebounded a little. I thought it was neat to get out at almost the absolute bottom.