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i also liked the option of a main page with all new/recent threads.

lescor - glad to see you're still doing well! for individual stocks - check out ICPT's movement. not related to mean reversion, but for point movement. there's people who made good money after the news came out - both long and short.

i had a bit more than that amount when i started almost 15 years ago, and i already had a couple years under my belt of trading from my day job. i wouldn't recommend it, especially since i had favorable conditions at the time.

tj - nearly all of my trades are intraday, so the only fear is a trading halt. i cut back any end of day positions to much less than my normal size for that reason. i also almost never hold common stock through earnings. i've had a periodic takeover when i'm short, but it's rare. the...

liked the first post, i also have found a time stop valuable; if a trade doesn't work as it should within a certain time frame, i get out. sometimes, i'm wrong on it. but more often than not, that time stop saves me a lot of problems trying to get out of a 'bad' trade when everyone else is...

good post bone. keep it real.

if i can jump in, i found the first question to be essential to my trading, and after that, the second. i learned part of the third one - if i feel super confident on a trade(s), i'm on top of the world with a trade, it's like my internal clock is telling me to get out of at least half of it...

congratz hafez, i've got another 10+ years to reach your level. i'm not swinging as large as your friends, but i'm comfortable with my trading size. each day, i cut the stock universe from 10,000 stocks to somewhere between 5 and 25, and watch those for my setups. never would have thought it...

yup, the bull market is strong. stocks with better than expected earnings gap up and run. stocks that "should" pull back don't, and stocks that gap down during the day are often starting down and giving clear "bullish" intraday patterns. so the easiest money is to be made from the bull...

very glad he won, didn't think he did anything wrong. curious if he'll win when he goes after them for his legal fees.

hey, i could be wrong as well. i'm going off fuzziness as well. was just learning how to trade (fade) stuff then, and remember shorting YHOO intraday when it entered the S&P because the RSI was 100 intraday. i don't think the RSI dipped below 100 the rest of the day...and the stock didn't...

think it was emulex (EMLX), wasn't it? didn't know it was someone who worked for a wire company, thought it was just a bogus press release that got issued by an individual. at some point in my career, i stopped going long falling knives because sometimes there would be cancelled trades so if...

best of luck with your recovery don...

i haven't looked at exactly which threads are in there, but 1) it's a good idea so new posters can have an idea what's been posted and 2) a quick overview shows some things that i knew were good (and a couple really bad ones avoided), so i suspect the list is mainly solid. good job.

aew - you stated something about your work ethic, will work harder than everyone else, etc. i am not doubting your belief in that statement for a second. however, i have heard virtually the exact same paragraph from other people. if you're going into a corporate environment and say at...

other people have posted similar stuff before. although college is NOT required to be a self-employed trader, it is significant if you ever want to move up in the corporate business world. basically go to uni while you trade on the side. if you can successfully trade, you'll have a ton of...

jesse - i was IN a bunch of tokyo joe's stocks, not his chatroom. i remember when the stock he pumped on friday was on some major publication, i think the ny times, over the weekend on some french data (? it's been 15 years) and it exploded. people congratulated him on his great pick and...

i'm a discretionary trader. i had my big breakthrough when i minimized my largest losses, so i know what you're going through. i found a few different things that happened when i had my large losses but the ones which were most important are: 1) i ignored my rules and either went in too...

i'd doubt that he's out. if there's a squeeze, the volume will be much larger than it's been. also, i'd expect his other holdings to go opposite his position (ie. when he had JCP long, expect it to go down; i know he's no longer in it) as other people on the street start tightening the screws.

no investing with friends. no investing with brokers. no no no!