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I work 6 hours a day. I swing trade only. The market opens at 4am ish hawaii time, so by the time I wake up, I can already enter orders in for the day. I have about 2 hours before I have to start work.

Noise Trader, It looks to me like your bid line is just a moving average of some sort or deviant of it. Is the bid line one of your proprietary indicators?

I recently authored a TradersCue strategy. I will use it to track my trading biases. And to keep my friends who I discuss stocks and positions with in the know as far as what I am doing. Its a free subscription. I evaluated collective2 and they charge a lot of money with a shitty looking...

it has specifically to do with software that is either written poorly, or uses opengl. get a non-oem mother board, this should solve all problems.

if you need realtime radar capabilities, radarstation is very good. It would be easy to re-create things from Trade Ideas or your own indicators if you know basic programming concepts.

There is alot more to options than that. Read a book, or take a course. I took Market Compass' option course.

look for retest lows i think

Vtrader, I traded with them last year. Good guys. Min 25k accounts though. They do alot of options and you get haircut margin. Risk management is handled by seperate firm which is a good thing. Very good guys who started it, I know em all personally and I recommend Vtrader.

Dr. Z Wow, I wish I had been there. I may be coming up with some buddies early next year for the snow. Hope it will be a good winter for it. I will be sure to give you a call and we can go for food. I wish good trading 4 you! Aloha

Been taking a pretty serious hit. I decided not to buy otm premium. I got into LLTC today on the long side. Biggest loser is GM right now. I don't really have a big winner. Seems like everything went against me as soon as I got in, I still have time until April expiration though. I...

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account live this am. positions: I am long calls in: GM, IACI I am long puts in: EBAY, AMZN, ADBE, MU I am long stock in: TQNT

porgie, it seems to me like you set your reward / risk ratio < 1, maybe even less than .5 Is this correct? Doing this would give you a high win rate but your losses would be large. But if you have been doing it for 5 years like you say, and are profitable, then you must have a real...

thanks therudeboy, I will take that under advisement.

Here are stocks from my universe that I will be watching next week. cd, ko, nem, xlnx, aapl, ntap, rhat Out of these 7 stocks, only NTAP meets all of my criteria for entering. So barring any unforseen delays with IB, I will trade NTAP on the long side Monday morning. I am waiting for...

Phxtrader, Thanks for posting this journal. I am starting an account with IB with $3000 as well. I will mostly use options to swing trade. I wish you luck and I will continue reading. Aloha, Jason Lundy

Maverick, Your comment is very appreciated. I have been trying to figure out whether to trade hard deltas or soft deltas. The only difference to me is that with soft deltas, I will make my money from premium only. I am definitely not thinking my soft deltas will turn to hard deltas. So I...

My universe of stocks is defined as: price 20-35 | daily avg vol > 3m price 35-50 | daily avg vol > 5m price 50-1000 | daily avg vol > 8m I am looking at stocks establishing a trend < 120% relative to prior moves in the opposite direction Or stocks that have an established...

I stopped out of PFE at 26.00 with a .10 loss (entry was 26.10) I am exiting COST at 54.99 with a 5.24 point gain (entry was at 49.75) I am exiting PDCO at 36 with a 1.75 gain (entry was at 34.25) I am exiting my paper trades because tomorrow I am live. I have a margin account...