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Lost money 4 out of 5 days this week. It will be tough not to jump in exuberantly with real money again but I vow to papertrade only next week. -1916 today -1819 for the week

Kind of a personal question contrary, but there was that one time two summers ago...

Am I misreading something or were volumes on TSX and DJI spookily down today? Is this not a bearish indicator?

Ugh. -708 on the week (-0.8%).

I wish trading were as easy as that test:( Another fun one at: www.mensa.org/workout2.php

Ok for me to jump in? -695 yesterday (Fri) +1,144 for the week +6,779 for April I use E*trade for my RRSP accounts (IB doesn't have RRSP) and they were down in the morning. Even when they got going I got an error message that stopped me from getting out of a bad trade until 2:30 pm...

The Ugly I have sold when I meant to buy (and vice versa) at least ten times (so embarrassing). Over and over I have taken a position expecting a stock to move in a certain direction and maintained my position even when the priced moved against me, finally selling in disgust just as the stock...

Thought I'd throw out an update, rep the girls here, though not much to report. I'm trading $12k on IB, but I've traded up to $100k in the past month (no, I didn't lose it all, just parked it for now). Have been making bits of money here and there and I'm up overall, but it's been a bumpy...

Just curious -- has there never been a successful female trader posting on ET? Love you guys btw. Overall, smart and funny. Now if only you all had abs too...

Robbman – Thanks, I need to heed that advice. Whenever I’m reading up on this stuff, I seem to skim right over the risk management stuff. Not very glamorous. 1nibbler – Thanks for the advice. But uh, did you just hit on me? So tempting to comment on your name… Today was a good...

Deaddog – lol…pretty brave for a guy named “dog”. MandelbrotSet – I am definitely interested in futures and options. From the talk on this forum it seems to hold more promise. But not yet. I need to get the basics down first. In the meantime I’ll try to have a look at some...

Hey thanks tomahawk. I'm going to do that, but I'm mixing it up with a little bit of real money on the line too. Kind of like playing the nickel machines at the casino (only I won't be wearing diapers).

I have decided to try trading, despite warnings from all my friends, despite the failure stats I read about and the real life examples here on ET (although my guess is that most of the people who fail just quietly stop posting). Before you get too worried about me, dh and I made a small...

I just caught something about the possibility of a "bank intervention", perhaps during the Easter Weekend. First, I'm not sure what this means - just buying up US$ or something else? Would this buoy the market or dampen it? I tried to Google it and found speculation about Easter Weekend...