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All those avenues offer information that will prove helpful once in a while. It's good foundational material. To become a profitable trader, you will be well-served to spend some time with someone who already knows how to trade profitably. This may be a bit hard to find. Teaching trading is not...

Give your stop more room.

These videos are quite well done. I note that I have a robot that does exactly the opposite of the Breakout. I trade BreakIN's! My robot returns over 100% annually on many stocks, and even more on SPY and IWM. My point is that you can make money with two seemingly opposing ideas. (I am assuming...

There are probably several terms for this phenomenon. I call it "chasing."

I day trade ES with a computer program (an automated strategy). I don't know anyone who makes money reliably by manually day trading ES. I recommend you avoid it.

You have a lot of work to do before you are ready to trade for a living. Your mind is not right at this time. Sorry, but that's my opinion. Tough love. Rule # 1 for all traders: NEVER trade with money you "can't afford to lose." You already violated that. Stop it! Almost all of your "rules"...

I have tried thousands of EMA and SMA crossovers. None of them work for more than a few weeks. I use TradeStation, so I can automatically check, for example, every combination of moving average crossover between 2 and 100, or 100 and 1000, in a few minutes. Some crosses are better than others...

To all who try to use news to trade: News FOLLOWS price, not the other way around. If you are watching price movement and there is a big move, wait a few minutes, and several news services will publish stories about the stock you are watching. Note that the stories occur AFTER the move, not...

You may as well ask if breathing is good. If you are a human being you are greedy, period. Whether it is "good" is a subjective judgment. You can judge it good, or you can judge it bad; either way, it'll still be part of all of us.

If you torture a chart long enough, it'll tell you anything you want to hear.

I have been aware of this technique for many years. I learned it (and much more) at Landmark Education in 1991. Best course I've ever done. Their website is www.landmarkworldwide.com

I made about $6,000 when the Swissie revalued a few years ago. It was pure dumb luck. I just happened to get on the right side of the trade a minute before it happened.

I prefer to do it by hand. It seems to have more impact on my behavior. I don't journal every trade, and I never journal automated trades made by my computer strategy. When I notice that I'm having second thoughts, or feeling especially giddy about a trade, I'll write about it. It usually helps...

You asked to be corrected if you are wrong. I'm correcting you. I did not solicit. I said, "I am NOT looking for more accounts to manage..." FINRA, NFA, and CFTC rules do not apply to private individuals helping one another if one is not licensed. I used to be a Registered Investment Advisor...

I suggest you browse to www.meetup.com and see if there are trader meetups in your area. If there are, these are valuable people, many of whom have decades of trading experience they are willing to share. I attend four such meetups every month, and I have learned mountains of stuff from others...

I am working with three accounts at the moment, and producing about 80% per year. I am not looking for more accounts to manage, but I would be willing to discuss it with you to see if we have a mutually agreeable basis for doing business. I need to talk with you at least an hour, and ask you...