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"I AM trading the plan=holding until it comes back. " a plan should be focussed on protecting CAPITAL. Good luck...

"I have lost too much (on paper at least) to get out. I will continue to hold Trade the plan...

Summary Week Ended Friday 1st March 2013 3 stock trades: 1 MKS – 89.46 BPS 1 RBS + 12.86 BPS 1 XTA + 133.38 BPS Stocks net + 56.79 BPS All long trades, all intraday. 1 index trade: FTSE + 3.2 BPS I traded 3 days. Thoughts This week was volatile, stocks sold...

Summary Week Ended Friday 15th February 2013 9 stock trades: 5 BLT – 283.02 BPS 4 BP – 26.48 BPS Stocks net - 309.5 BPS All long trades, all intraday. No index trades. I traded 2 days. Thoughts This week was a bit difficult. Poor enties and exits. Stay...

Summary Week Ended Friday 8th February 2013 3 stock trades: 1 BLT + 24.97 BPS 1 STAN + 45.94 BPS 1 XTA + 19.71 BPS Stocks net + 90.62 BPS All long trades, intraday except STAN. No index trades. I traded 2.5 days. Thoughts This week was a bit quiet, spent most of my...

"Maybe I shouldn't use stop. Without a doubt, it is the stop that lost my money today. Without stop, I would have made money." Or maybe your entry was poor, and your stop limited your loss, preserving your capital so that you can trade another day.

The market is a very tough environment. Good luck.

Summary Week Ended Friday 1st February 2013 7 stock trades: 3 ANTO – 298.78 BPS 1 BLT + 8.88 BPS 3 RBS – 79.33 BPS Stocks net – 369.23 BPS All long trades, all intraday. No index trades. I traded 2 days. Thoughts This week was poor, just cannot seem to...

Ok, now I realise that this thread is a wind - up...

Summary Week Ended Friday 25th January 2013 2 stock trades: 1 BP + 30.72 BPS 1 XTA + 37.67 BPS Stocks net + 68.39 BPS All long trades, all intraday. No index trades. Thoughts This week was pretty quiet after last week’s poor trading. My exits were poor, the market...

Hi Pachira, I just maintain a list of stocks I watch day in, day out. At the moment there are 16 stocks on my list, all large cap stocks on the LSE. I keep a daily spreadsheet showing important levels on these stocks, and I have a rule to never trade anything NOT on the list...

"Got killed by a short position in crude oil. Lost $8500." Can I ask what your intital planned risk was when you entered the trade ? I would guess it wasn't $8.5k. "I was thinking: now it's time to go down, because there is no reason for oil to go up, except some market manipulators."...

Summary Week Ended Friday 18th January 2013 11 stock trades: 5 AAL - 771.32 BPS 1 BLT + 24.18 BPS 3 STAN - 88.49 BPS 2 XTA - 199.24 BPS Stocks net – 1034.87 BPS All long trades. No index trades. Thoughts This week was pretty much a disaster, due to my holding two...

Summary Week Ended Friday 11th January 2013 11 stock trades: 2 ANTO + 43.48 BPS 7 BLT – 105.73 BPS 1 MKS + 17.04 BPS 1 STAN + 4.34 BPS Stocks net – 40.88 BPS All long trades, all intraday. 1 index trades: FTSE + 1.64 BPS. Thoughts A poor week’s trading...

Summary Week Ended Friday 4th January 2013 11 stock trades: 3 AAL – 296.17 BPS 5 BLT + 17.51 BPS 3 XTA – 80.03 BPS Stocks net – 358.68 BPS 3 long trades, 8 short, all intraday. No index trades. Thoughts A very poor week’s trading, I was short too early on the...

"It seems the account balance is not real money, just a change of numbers." Is this paper trading ? Or real money. If the latter, stop IMMEDIATELY.

LSE will close in 25 minutes, so I think I'm done trading for 2012. Wishing readers (all 2 of them) a Happy New Year.

Hmm... Monday's session should be interesting in the light of of that move on the US futures.....

Summary Week Ended Friday 28th Dec 2012 Just 2 stock trades: 1 BLT + 1.86 BPS 1 STAN + 12.15 BPS Stocks net + 14.01 BPS All long trades, all intraday. No index trades. Thoughts A pretty quiet week, LSE closed for 2.5 days dues to Christmas. I traded 1 day...

"Someone told me to go with the flow and said Apple is in downtrend, I should sell instead of buy" My advice (I know you didn't ask for it) is this - Don't listen to anyone's opinion when trading, after all it's your money, not theirs. And good luck with the trading. Regarding APPL, I...