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Stock opened up and immediately declined. I rode it all the way to $9.35 and decided to put a .15 trailing stop on it to secure a $.17 gain per share in case it were to go up. It continued down to $9.26 then shot up and I got filled by my broker at $9.43 for a $.24 gain. Hmmm there's that...

Alright, my new method is to short at the close when the price at the close is less than the pivot point for the following day. In this case the pivot for VC tomorrow is 9.79 and the close of yesterday was 9.69, so I placed a short order at the close but I got filled at 9.67, no sweat. I...

Short 925 shares of VC at 9.67. Stop loss is 9.82. Profit goal is 9.54. We'll see tomorrow.

areyoukidding, You are a complete moron. Stop starting threads that are worthless observations. If you need someone to talk to bother your mommy. You're polluting this website with utter garbage.

Terrible month of September. Below are the trades I made. I made many mistakes this month, one was trading a stock I shouldn't be trading, CTTY. I decided to once again optimize my backtesting strategy. Now I will only be trading VC, and I will be setting a 15 cent stop loss. I backtested...

Does anyone know where I can get historical intraday charts for a specific stock? I am backtesting a strategy and it won't be complete unless I can get a look at what the chart movement for the day was. So If I wanted to look up January 25th's chart for the day because I see it was a big...

can we not talk about indeces until the dow breaks either 10k or 10,800 and the S&P breaks 1180 or 1280. Until then its a worthless discussion, we've been in a range. When the dow gets down to 10,200 you buy when it gets around 10,600 you sell, when S&P gets down to 1210 you buy at 1240 you...

+118 1100 shares of VC Bought at close yesterday for 9.09 and sold just now at 9.21.

+161 today shorting VC.

+134 on tuesday shorting VC.

-84.44 today after commissions. Rough ride on CTTY today.

+173 today after commissions. My first post on this thread, I don't have a blotter so I will post my order entry screen.

Haven't posted here in a couple months, attached is a summary of the trades i made in July and august. Had two terrible trades in July and one in August that killed my profits. All three were mental errors and shouldn't have costed me the amount they did. But take a look. I will post my...

This is silly, everyone should know an accountant:D . Do you think traders that churned out over 500 trades for the year know how to report that just because they made less than 50k that year? I wouldn't trust anything from an accounting firm that is starting to look like a mickey D's. Plus...

Yea well, short amount of time won't happen. But there is a start, that should keep him busy. Unfortunately it takes time to make money """Consistently"""

You people are losers. If anyone thinks they need to blow up an account to learn how to make money, you obviously did not do your homework before starting to trade. Since no one here can offer advice because they all lose, here's how you can start with 5k. *Open a margin account with a...

You have too much time to do that amount of detective work.

Who cares? People make money trading, it happens everyday. If you don't believe it can happen for you then don't trade and move on. As someone said though, trading is just like any other high paying profession (Acting, Athletics, Music), you need to be the best to make the cream, but you can...

Profitability is one penny or more produced at the end of the year to go into your bank. If after 5 years you can not produce 1 penny or more from trading, then why continue to do it? Profitable traders after 5 years should be 100%. Maybe the question should be; what % are making a living...

Go back to school for Finance, get a job at a financial institution (goldman Sachs is good) as an analyst. I think most of trading is psychology but another aspect is being good with numbers/math, maybe you are good with this stuff, but your degree doesn't tell me that at all. If I was a...