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I'd like to have the history file back, if you still have it. Lots of good stuff in it.

I left $600 on the table in the last four days because I jumped the gun. Got out early on 3 trades, before they reached my targets (and they all did!!! $&!t!). For me right now, holding on to winning trades is the most difficult part.

I agree. It is risky to work for someone else. When you do, you are, to a large degree, abrogating your resposibility for your own financial success and placing it in someone elses hands. In either case, working for yourself or someone else, if you fail, your $crewed, but when working for...

I hadn't thought about it before but these low interest rates must be wreaking havoc on retirees. Low interest rates mean low returns on CD's and money market funds, places long considered safe havens for retirement capital. The low rates will have a tendency to force money out of these...

Grey, I quit a career myself and am going for broke with trading as a career. Started in April and am just beginning to make some money, very little so far. This is way harder than what I used to do, and a lot riskier, I can see why 95% fail at it, but at least I can see some light at the end...

This is fascinating. This is the Graal.

I voted for "They don't keep their emotions in check". Since I work alone "they" means "me", so I can't speak about others. I trade certain indicators, but my emotions get in the way sometimes. I was in a trade Tuesday that was going against me at the time. Another one came up but I didn't take...

Go to StockCharts.com and use SharpCharts indicator window "Average True Range" and set it at 1 for the daily dollar range for the current day(if it hasn't gapped from the previos day). Open another Average True Range window and set it at 10 or 15 days for the average daily dollar range over...

The only way would be to have an edit log on the post. IE "Edited 11-09-01 09:33 AM" "Edited 11-09-01 10:42 AM" And also have a seperate thread or category called something like "My Trades". That would really make some interesting reading.

Long time-frame economic trends like employment statistics, and housing prices have little or no effect on trading positions that last only minutes or a few days. Investors are more concerned with economic trends. Traders are more concerned with things like volume, volitility, support and...

Quiet But Deadly Your writing was excellent IMO. That's the way it struck me when I read it. WOW. Tony Thanks for the inspiration (The pictures on the other thread, etc.). The American Dream, something to aspire to.

It's an hour later and LARGE volume has come on again (for the entire last hour). The Price dropped 2% in the first two minutes of the volume and has been holding steady for the last hour. Volume is 20x what it was in the previous hour, but after the initial 2% drop it has remained remarkably...

A question on tape reading. A stock has just gone down about 30% over the last 2 days on 3x normal volume. For the last 2 hours volume has dropped to almost normal and the price is climbing very slowly and steadily (but hasn't risen much). Everytime a little bit of volume comes in the price...

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I'd like to hear some trading strategies too. After all, that's what this board is all about. Helping each other to become better traders.

The new page looks really good but I liked the old one better. It was more straightforeward. Maybe the format of the old page could be used in the new page (on the right) and still keep the new border (on the left).

"Who needs a prop firm?" I think it's a personal choice. Maybe even a fundamental one.

What I do is cut my position size down to a level where I can tell myself that if I loose a trade it is really no big deal. For instance, if I'm trading $10,000 positions I will cut them down to $2000. Then I say to myself "no big deal, I could have four losses in a row and still loose less then...

Read reminiscences of a stock operator. Set up a small account at one of the discount brokers like Datek or Scottrade so you have a streaming realtime data feed. Download Medved Quote Tracker so you can watch stocks in realtime. Use Stockcharts.om for your historical charts. (Quote Tracker...

Exit techniques on loosers - What has worked best for me is to look at the price action over the last few days. I can see two kinds. Definite extensions where the price will go up a large amount and retracements which I think of as "wobbles" where the price will go down a little bit and then...