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Thanx man......I just felt like I had left over 5k in profits on the table this month by closing my trades to early and hence this time when I should have closed, I held.......Apreciate the support....Tomorrow I will be smarter with more DISCAPLINE

ya things were looking ok, with exeption of the last 2 losses and I know that....My madness came when I thought, hey I make 5- 10 cents on msft with 1000 share lots....I can make alot more if I increase to 7000....Geez that would be 7 times my profit :eek: ...guess I should have factored in that...

InandLong: Thanx Bro

Hey man...Thanx ALOT....I really am starting to feel a bit better and your right, and believe it or not, deep down inside I know all this, but threw it out the window because I wanted a home run and wanted to make up for those winning days when I left hundrends each time on the table........Your...

Ok heres a general idea of how Sept started and then ended... first day of Sept Trading..... .... + 220 Second................................ - 160 third.................................... +260 4th...

Not looking for sympathy on here....Nor was the thread inteaded for that purpose.....Trying to make sense of how I let my emotions get the best of me and why I made the mistakes I made....I know that I made numerous ones.....I appreciate everyones comments on here, and I am just trying to make...

thanx Futures, good advice and I will defenately have to look at my risk parameters .......Ozzy man, good to hear from you, I have missed your posts...Have you been on holidays?..thanx for the encouragment.... Turtle....How was my MSFT an excellent long at 26.13 when it proceeded to drop 16...

Futures: What should my risk / reward ratio be?

Thanx Futures, will defenately read the book....I guess I am just really pissed becasue I have had a BIG problem closing out my winners way to soon... and not bailing out of losers fast enough...It seems like when I see Green on my blotter I want to close it and then I leave a stupid amount of...

Thanx BSAM

Today I lost 2k, but the rest of the week has also acumulted many large losses and the revenge got into me to trade more size and try to recover.....

thanx that makes sense to me.....It wasnt the "moves" that really killed me but my indecision to stick with a plan... ( Amat was more or less a few SEVERE f*ckups....tried to buy and ended up short, tried to cover, shorted more......ect...).

I am still confused, if the 20-30 cent move is small and i am on the wrong end of it twice or 3 times with 7k...That adds up to alot of losses either way....:confused:

What do you mean by my risk?......Keep in mind guys, I have only been trading les than a year and am still trying to figure out were I should have mental stops in place....Can you elaborate please

Thanx Futures I started trading MSFT with 500 lots awhile back and was doing good...Guess I fell in the trap of if I can make $100 trading 500 shares, I can make 1k if I increase my size 10 fold.....Whatare the right times to trade larger size?

Well today I offically became a statistic....I have joined the 95% of traders who fail ....My story begins like this. I was a product of Swift trade a while back and moved on to bigger and better things....Rebating just wasnt for me...I joined a prop firm and have been trading with them for...

I just wanted to say how GREAT this thread is....I read it often as it gives us young traders some inspitation to succeed...Awesome job guys...!!!!!!

GO REDSKINS :D

Do a search in the upper right hand corner....You will find an ENDLESS amount of threads dedicated to Swift...Including payouts and commish, and almost anything else you can think of...I'm not sure but I think the payout is 10%.....Look at trying to be remote with ANY one that will take you if...

Why would you feel like a traitor :confused:...I mean does the company feel bad that they FORCE you into tons and tons of trades in order to make commish?...