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    Bright Slashes Rates for 2010.

    is their a bright trading office in Denver, or would it be a remote trading opportunity?
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    I know it will. still learning "traders psychology". I am a Work in progress. this year I am even from the lack of banking profits. Someday I will learn my lesson. Damn little greedy monster in me. Fortunately I dont do this for a living, just supplement for the time being
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    Thank you dead dog. As someone(me) who has been struggling with this exact moment of the trade, this was a helpfule thought. I lost out today because I was waiting for that extra $50 and risked the other $200, and by days end had gave it all back. Next time I am taking it when this...
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    I struggled with this again today. Bought TCK at 42.50 and it was around 43.90 at the close...strong buying allday and bullish chart, so i left it out there for tomorrow...coulda locked in the profits, but the little greed monster got a hold of me. hopefully I dont regret it.
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    Intraday trading and Percent-Risk Position Sizing

    id be curious as to how you manage that too, i dont think i could cover my trade commissions with that low of a risk to make the trade worth it. perhaps i need to change brokers. can i ask who you use? sorry huggiebear dont mean to be asking ?'s on your thread, ill stop
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    Intraday trading and Percent-Risk Position Sizing

    when Im swing trading I use like you do, 1-2% of my balance as the risk. Im still getting adjusted to doing a "little" bit of daytrading, so I am using a smaller risk amount because I havent quite got the hang of it just yet. Sorry I couldnt be of more help. On the swing trading, I...
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    TCK - what happens tomorrow?

    http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TCK&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p23348187778 Bought in today at $42.50 and left it in the mkt. I thought about taking profits but I got greedy cause I think it can run again tomorrow...I felt that technically it looked decent, and fundamentally, they just had great...
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    any good reads on options?

    thank you all for your responses, I will check them out. GLTA, happy trading
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    i think i am going forward with this strategy...."sell when the little monster inside me wants to wait for more profits"
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    any good reads on options?

    thanks for the unput lt
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    any good reads on options?

    I am wanting to learn more about options for protection against a stock purchase...can anyone recommend a good educational read for me on this so I can learn more about the options market? Thanks for your help, sg
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    this is a hard lesson to learn, everytime it gets to where I am thinking"should I sell"...I should. but sometimes I dont becuase I "dont want to miss out" if it runs. Then I kick myself. Still working on this psychological aspect of my trading.
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    GS, Buy or Stay Away?

    sounds like the vote within the sec to push the case could have been political to set up Obamamania on the Fin's. either way, im out of this one for a while. thanks to everyones opinions
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    Protection against gaps

    nothing you can do. An example: I bought CSIQ recently and was trading a gap down. By this I mean I bought CSIQ long and entered on 21.25, with plans of exiting at 22 to close the gap. Had a stop loss set at the previous days low. All was looking good, the gap was closing, and tehn the...
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    Clarification on stocks trading above/below $1

    Interesting Tommintj. Why then can I buy positions with the fourth decimal point? For instance today I did a market order for C and bought it at 4.8485. I didnt do a limit order(when I do a limit order it wont let me enter more than 2 decimal spots), and that 4.8485 is what the market let...
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    Clarification on stocks trading above/below $1

    my understanding is both above and below $1 can be traded down to a fraction of a cent. I have bought some at the fourth digit to the right of the decimal point, for instance 32.8899. Just my experience
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    GE has been ramping up lately.

    I bought some Ge around 7.14 back in march of 2009. It was purely a "if buffett bought it around $20 then I shouldnt be afraid to buy it here". it worked out, i sold it at $16 a share a while back...but I am wanting to get back in since it looks to be trending. what are your thoughts of a...
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    GS, Buy or Stay Away?

    i think i have decided to stay away and go look for a different stock, different set up. Just too much unknown here...
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    CNBC needs to go away!!!!!!

    all of these 24 hour news channels need to go away...with so much time to fill they will pull at even the smallest of threads to get a story on tv and fill air time
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    comtex smartrend

    Anyone ever used this service? I see articles all over the place and wondering if anyone has had any luck with this service.
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