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I wrote a custom software package for my trading over the past few years. It is always a work in progress. Attached is a screen shot from my app. It is the screen where I spend most of my time. First, a little background. I take the universe of stocks and narrow it down by price and...

I use this one. It's very good and I know of no others in the same price range.

I am likely planning on going flat into the long weekend as I don't want to take a risk and give back my unrealized gains. My feeling is that this recent bullish activity over the past day and a half will last into tomorrow morning, but who knows about after that and especially Monday. So...

Thank you. Same here. It really limits what I can do in so many ways.

Thanks for taking the time to type that. I want to display as much as I can and give full disclosure. I have been reading a lot of threads in the archives and have seen over and over again that "no one posts their actual account". The reason I want to do this is because I think being on the...

I would like to start a journal with full disclosure, including printing out my account screen from IB (see attached). I went in and blocked out the account number. Is this necessary? Can anything be done with the account number by an unscrupulous person, or is it necessary to have my ID...

Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond to this thread in the last 24 hours. I have a lot of new ideas to distill, and am looking forward to doing so. It looks like things got a little passionate there for a while this afternoon. Today I ended up $560 in three positions I bought...

I appreciate your reply. I size my position based on this formula: size = equity * risk / ADR In my case, I use a risk % of .02. I then take the minimum shares of this, or 20% of my account buying power, or $30,000 right now (with margin). So generally, I'm in positions for 300 or 400...

Thank you for your reply, Jack. I am looking through the cutting nature of your post to the real content to see if it applies. I think the key is the absolutes in your assessments of my trading. I do not miss my targets all the time and never go out on stops, nor do I never pick stocks that...

Thank you. I am going to look closely at the suggestions given forth by lindq, easyguru, and yourself. I will look at the charts of my recent trades and see how/if I could've done better by using a more specific target and/or scaling out. And peterf had a good point about it being practice.

Thanks... What do you mean exactly?

Thanks for the replies. I trade with a target. I have been buying pullbacks in strong uptrends (or shorting the opposite) and set my target for generally half of the distance back up. I set my initial stop for below the low of the day or the low of the previous day. My account is only...

I am having a hard time adjusting my exits for the market. I've been doing very well picking stocks and predicting direction, where nearly all of my picks move in the way I want them to. The problem is exiting correctly. Too many times lately, I have seen my profits erode. It really...

If you are in XP, right click the desktop, click properties, select the appearance tab, click effects, and select ClearType as the method for smoothing screen fonts. Good luck, Dickie Greenleaf

I don't understand -- you have been doing this for 10 years but went through your startup capital just now? Thanks for clarifying, Dickie Greenleaf

The calculations for ROC and RSI are not that complicated. I am not familiar with the E-signal scripting language, but could you calculate the formula for the ROC manually and then calculate the RSI of that manually? Look at this site for formulas...