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P/L for week 7/16: +11k on 520k shares -3, +8, +0, +5, +1 Overtraded a couple days (160k, 100k shares), but still resolved to keep my mind and equity focused on the best setups. I had overnight shorts throughout the week which kept me biased to the downside, but of course I end up taking...

Are market makers actually sitting there with thousands of contracts offered at .01? Hard to believe.

Like RN said once before, you have to WANT to be disciplined, nothing can force you to do it. I'm still at a place where doing the right thing is hard at times. My instinct for protecting my equity just isn't automatic like it should be, whereas I'll take to risk like a duck takes to water...

P/L for week 7/9: -12k on 100k shares traded +5, -3, -2, -12 Traded from home for a couple days, then got whacked adding into a loser on friday for a 12k loss on a single position. Such is the risk of larger position size when discipline is not one of my strong suits. The lesson...

The risk/reward just isn't there for those looking for pennies, nickels, dimes -- hasn't been for a while. But the lack of liquidity has its advantages as well.

I am also extra wary of the afternoon session; when one considers where intraday "noise" comes from in terms of say a daily time frame, it's usually the afternoon into the close that is most deceptive, with the open being a close second.

It's just not enough in the intraday time frame to trade equities purely off charts, the traditional patterns, s&r, etc are all much more prone to noise; of course they are essential in showing where price has been, but for comparison's sake buying a dictionary isn't going to make you the next...

Imo, any chart on intraday time frame is too slow, unless you know the stock back to front already and just use it as a reference for the recent past (what charts are good for really). Remember, on an intraday level, you are going up against traders who trade a stock each and every session...

If you mean averaging down, it's might be true at times but that's usually how I also get killed as well. It's the main reason why I stayed below 2k shares for so long, since every time before I had asked for a higher max I would get crushed eventually on an avg down gone wrong. This time...

P/L week ended 7/2: +12k on 320k shares -2, +1, +6, +2, +5 Key adjustment for the week was raising my max position size to 4k from 1.5k shares; +1 if you can figure out how it helped.

Down 7 afterhours, didn't CNBC mention alot of oom puts bought a few weeks ago?

P/L for week 6/25: -7k on 460k shares +4, 0, -3, -9, +1 Again, discipline fails. This month is shaping up to be my worst in a few years, no doubt I'm definitely feeling pressure, even when having a decent day, to "push". I've changed certain parameters that I think have hurt me in the...

Whatever happened to single session options?

P/L for week 6/18: +2k on 400k shares +3, +1, -3, -1, +2 The mental re-grouping continues; reworking one's stance towards the markets in general as well as day-to-day trading is not easy to accomplish overnight. Given your edge, do you "know" what your ideal day looks like, meaning your...

Put it this way, there's nothing to be gleaned from a chart from how I trade, any points to be made would all just be retrospect and "obvious" in hindsight. And yeah, I'm not giving anything away here edgewise -- not that you would want to know anyway given the performance. I'll give an...

The biggest losses are usually: me getting caught wrongfooted off a news event when volatility is high, and just not taking my loss or worse averaging down; or me getting whipped back and forth by programs and succumbing to frustration trades; or me making a big bet on market direction and being...

P/L for week 6/11: -11k on 320k shares -10, -5, +5 -1, 0 First half of the week just a continuation of previous before I finally settled down. Nothing more to add from a personal standpoint. For the rest of you out there: the more I try to convince myself that "you don't need to know...

Thanks for the reminders and encouragement, this lesson has been a repeat lesson years in the making, and the culprit has always been success -- or at least my reaction to it. I've never been able to just keep cruising with what's working, I've always been one to keep pushing my game, cuz in...

P/L for week 6/4: -32k on 250k shares traded +10, -32, -2, -8 Well it was bound to catch up to me, there were just too many days last month where I needed to fight back from a severe drawdown -- this was finally the one that really got away. And so I throw my hands up in surrender for a...

Anyone recommend an out-of-box laptop under 1k? Nothing exravagant, decent screen size is only priority.