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What are some good rules of thumb for stoploss setting for swing (overnight+) trading? I'm using 2:1 profit vs. loss targets but because I cannot watch my trades all the time intraday I set trailing stops as I can throughout the day so I don't end up flat as often, at least that's the goal...

"Is what common? The site issue is beyond me. The software has been flawless for me so I am not sure what happened with Janko. I have not had one single downtime or problem on the newest version which is now over 2 months old." Thanks DATTrader. Relieved to hear that. Actually I have weird...

All I have left to do is fund my account (retail). Is this a common or uncommon problem?

(which killed the fasterpussycat btw :p ), theoretically if you shorted a stock all the way to the very bottom which I believe is .0001 on OTCBB what if the company ceased to exist? Would you now own the short sell funds and the original holder just be out? Or must you cover at .0001? Not...

You sure you're old enough to trade pussy? :p

Kind of ironic that an anti-spam site spams to promote the site? :eek:

Quote: BullFighter: "....you will notice that this board is all about people helping other people." That one sentence sums it all up. Its the only reason I surf here daily.

------------ Quote: Kicking What's wrong with using Hotmail with brokers? "Don't leave the Hotmail account as permanent. It’s not the place to be permanently exchanging finance info" ---------- I'm just overly cautious about financial information like you might pass back and forth...

Mail servers do suffer from problems sometimes. Some cannot handle a lot of traffic and crash or bog down. My ATT cable email server goes down religiously at certain hours and I can't even retrieve my emails. That said based on your entire post I'd say that's a line of crapola. Open up a...

I'm no expert compared to the rest here but it seems to me this is yet another logical reason to have more than one brokerage account. Unless there's some cross checking (how?) you can spread your day trades out to keep under the min. round trips per 5 days at each brokerage. I say "another...

Thanks for your comments. This wasn't as cut and dry as I imagined but there's a lot of reasons. Have a good weekend.

No offense but you just listed a few of your picks from last week. I'm glad you had a good week but you really didn't explain any methodology. I can read a good/bad story and guess too. In fact I did that very thing for about 2 months and got crushed. Do you have some specific do's and...

Perhaps its because I don't know proper interpretation of news but NEWS GETS ME KILLED everytime. I stopped trading on news and now simply pay attention to it for general information. Its nice to know if a stock position you're in just had the company discuss an SEC investigation ;) When I...

I see this figure everywhere from advice replies to broker margin-maintainence policy to books on trading as the suggested minimum price stock to trade. What is so special about a stock just because it's trading at $15+ vs. a $6 stock or a $8stock for trading? I'm not actually trying to buck...

Is this outage issue with IB mostly for Globex? If I'm trading stocks only is IB a problem broker regarding outages?

This has been a very educational thread. Thanks to all the folks who posted information and links in this thread. :)

I do prefer a mental stop. On days where I can sit at my desk all day this is what I do. But placing a stop when I have meetings or am needed on the floor (engineering company) makes me feel a little safer. I recognize I'm kind of trying to trade like a full-timer on a part-time basis but right...

Thanks Magna. That was the info I was seeking.

I'm pretty new myself here but do yourself a favor and click the green "brokers" link at the top of your screen. It lists many and has ratings and comments from users. Apply common sense also since its possible to stuff the ballot box in a good or bad way there.

Think I just discovered where I want to trade! LOL