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It is all very cloudy.. I dont think that most people really understand this business.. including those who post here on this site

Hi ! I have been trading for almost 2 years. During my first 6 months made about $4500. Next year I made $50 000, from a $31 000 account. Many people it seems like make a lot of money trading stocks, my question is who are those people who lose big money ? If someone makes $10...

Hi ! I am interested as well ! Count me in !

Yeap happened to me the same it is 10:51AM est and still cant log into my account

Well it is not an actuall ticker of course. My point is that on Monday the stock jumped after hours 1.5% from the monday's closing price according to Yahoo Finance. But I did not see any change in price in my TWS. Is it possible ? Why it is so..

On Monday I bought ZYZ stock. After hours: TWS showed bid: 32.30 ask: 32.38 And it was not changing all the time up to 7pm. At about 5pm I went to check news on Yahoo Finance for this XYZ stock and saw after hours the stock jumped 1.5% Anybody can explain this ? I would appreciate it...

I am sorry if you are so smart then probably you could guys drop a line and explain why... I am not a professonal.. so it is normal that I dont know this. I dont see anything stupid about my question. Let me ask it a bit differently. I bought stock XYZ After hours: TWS showes...

Hi ! Yahoo finance shows that after hours my stock is up 1.5%, I have an open IB platform TWS and after 4pm IB showed the same bid and ask price all the time. Does anybody know any explanation to this ?

Well markets go down.. they correct a bit.. then they go up again. POssibly beginning next monday we will have the start of recovery. I agree with Doug Kass that we will have the year end rally

That is what I am talking about Echo, I agree with you << As soon as you close the position, magically prices will move through this price point and you end up feeling like a fool for having been played one more time.>> But also I am talking about not just intraday. Lets if you buy a...

Well it is just a question that has a reasonable thought in it. But thanks for reply, it seems like you disagree… You don’t know that for a fact you just believe that it is so.. I respect your point of view.

Hi ! How much information market makers ( and other big guys ) know about your account and your positions ? For example there is an XYZ stock. Does the Market maker know how many people are short that stock at any given time. Do they know how much leverage is used by traders or...

Very good question ! I would like to know this as well.. Anybody has any idea ? And please if you dont have to say anything valuable, then please dont write here at all..

I think it is a personal thing when to stop trading. The main thing when you trade is to be involved 100%. If you feel like not trading or you feel relaxed then better dont trade. it is my personal opinion of course. for someone else it might be different

I trade stocks. I entered basically two numbers one is proceeds ( box 2 from 1099B ), and second number I entered is total purchases. I was thinking maybe IRS wants to have the information about all stocks transactions I have done. And I thought maybe that's what TurboTax implied when it...

2006 was my first year of trading and now I am doing taxes, I use TurboTax. The software offered me to import my investments… My question is do I have to do this ? If I don’t import then whats going to happen ? I already entered info from form 1099, do I have to import data...

How I can find how many share the company had one year ago in the third quarter ? Does anybody know where I can look up this information ? Thanks a lot..

Hello ! Where can I see a number of deluted shares that a company had in the 3rd Q. one year ago ? thank you for help..

Thanks for reply Alanm !