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I am going to start part time classes in Baruch (a city university of New York) toward a degree in finance, next semester. Instead of reading book after book after book I suppose I may as well go to school and actually get to network and socialize instead of lock myself in a room and cram away...

Thanks! That was a picture perfect set-up, do you have some sort of scanning software or you look through charts manually? I have questions but I will wait until you post other examples :-) Preferably a variety of set-up's of course, but the CLS example was a high percentage set-up for sure.

August was a disappointing month in every way. My offense was completely shut down as I had a hard hard time finding my shots and making them, and my open game was nowhere near the caliber of July. There were no 4 digit games either way, and for the most part it was a matter of patience...

I think a lot of you are missing my point here. My point is that I am not happy with just learning during the market hours, I would like to learn SOMETHING when I am not trading. The financial market has no limit, and I would like to enrich my knowledge and prepare for the future when I will...

I am going to turn 22 this month, and I have accomplished absolutely nothing yet, I feel old, I feel incompetent . . . My weaknesses are shown before my eyes under a magnifying glass, and one question haunted me during the entire weekend: If you are so serious about trading, why stop at...

Commissio: Thanks a lot for the reply. As Magna said, if you can, please share it on this public forum but for my own sake if you have to e-mail me privately that's fine also :-) E-mail me with an AIM name or something and we can talk. My questions: 1) While I understand...

Super light volume as everything felt like thin ice today. There was a HUGE opportunity to make money this morning as positive economic numbers triggered some buying. The problem was, there was no real volume, and that made it very very difficult to take serious positions. I missed a couple...

Commissio: I e-mailed you the other day, my e-mail is te_bai@hotmail.com, thanks :-)

Don't get me wrong, I am not looking to find new trading styles. I do believe I can use two styles at same time, I really want some additional depth to my play book. So far everything I do starts with futures go into index and finally stocks that follow indexes. Have I perfected this style...

This is what I am talking about to be in the groove, it is so important to win small yet consistent games so when the opportunity arises you are at the bleeding edge, ready to unleash your full strength. After losing 3 straight games, I was way too conservative today, while I pulled out a minor...

I have been doing a lot of thinking over the past a few days. There is no secret that the best of the best traders are still making serious money in this climate. I did some survey at my firm and it seems best performing traders are those who either trade a basket of stocks that don't follow...

Any time something is not working, you gotta find out why, and I believe despite of a small loss I have found the truth behind my recent shooting woes. Changes are expensive for traders, any time you add a new indicator, a new play to your book, you are going to take hits. Last week I added...

To all: First of all, I am a small potato trader, and while one day I will sure break into swing trading, now is not the time. I am not ready yet (capital/experience/etc.) If I can fully extract my potential as a day trader, with my current position limit (3000 shares, 16 positions...

MGB: The only way you can post a journal day after day is when you truly don't care how others look at your performance. Then there is no pressure from others. I write the journal for myself, not for anyone else, posting my performance on this board keeps me honest. I guess if...

Another ugly game but for whatever the reason I feel like I have lost purity in my touch. This is the hardest week of the year as undoubtly people will take off for vacation right before labor day as they prepare for fall trading, yet I am increasing my size and shots at the worst possible...

Turn off all lights in the room also help, high resolution, high refresh rate, a good diet is important to, I also suggest taking a hour off during the dead zone and do some exercise. The body has to be as strong as the mind . . .

There is a reason why IB is still possibly my only choice if I am going to trade with my own money as a newbie. No ticket charge and 0.5 cent per share for anything more than 500 shares? Hello? Wake up, there isn't a firm on this planet that can compete with this at least not until you start...

Second worst game of the month to open up the final week of August. Should never trade against the clock, I had an appointment this afternoon at 1PM and I managed to more than double my deficit from 11:00 to 12:30 in a fruitless attempt to cut into that loss. What was a minor scratch turned...

4 OF 8, sorry . . . Due to extensive number of transactions with pare in/out's, I count the number of positive/negative stocks at the end of the day . . . Commisio: Do you mean hammers/shooting stars, or something more complicated?

Just when you thought it will be a boring Friday game, it was a broad market rally that completely caught me off guard. That and the lack of courage on a key second shot with MMM turned what could have been a bang into a blah. This is why my game still has a long way to go, I can not control...