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+$1150 There are days where every trade seems to be timed wrong and day trading seems like the most difficult job in the world. Today was NOT one of those days. My timing just seemed right on and my confidence level was so high. VRTX opened lower, and displayed a lot of indecision as it...

+1150 Happy to start the month positive! Had success scaling into positions today based on S/R levels. Holding POT and CSIQ - swing trades. Good weekend, all!

Jon, Congrats on having accurately identified three of the most common trading mistakes in your trading. Now the real challenge is not to repeat them :p Donna

It would've required idiocy, not balls, to short it ahead of earnings, but the gleeful drop gave me a nice bounce play off support for a very quick $3800 yesterday. MA is a rock-solid company, and the panic reaction is handing investors a solid entry price IMHO.

Better than expected; now stop all this chatter and get to work :p

Hands down the funniest thread on ET, I'm ROTFLMAO, and if I'm dead tomorrow it's 4D's fault :D

Thanks, Bob! Congrats on your month, too, though you are used to those kinds of months :) Your support has been great and you are an amazing trader! Donna

And hopefully you are short :)

+3400 day, one of my best ever :) MA reported good earnings, but a huge write down due to a lawsuit tanked them in pre-market and it continued down at open until it tested its near term support just below 238 and pivoted. This is one of those rare gifts the market gives traders, like when...

Market gift from MA helped make this among my top days ever, despite having left $2200 of it on the table :mad: Put on CSIQ swing trade (swinging seriously against me) w/target of 32.50. Bought VRTX puts ahead of earnings when I saw the CEO, CFO and two VP's had sold off shares. Earnings...

Waiting for the pic of your 10-monitor setup :cool:

Clarification: through 110 resistance, not support.

-$1994 at close after -$3000 early this morning. Not unexpected at all. Details in my journal.

-$1994 on the day. Set a buy stop on CNC prior to open at 23.07. Immediate rally took me out with serious slippage for a $527 loss. Must’ve been market-on-open buy orders lined up for that surge. Set a stop on BIDU puts because they were gaining in pre-market and I needed to cut the loss...

I looked at the options the other day and they are too illiquid for me, so I don't have a strong opinion on RBCN in particular. However, when I buy puts (rather than straddle) to short on a high probability earnings play, I generally choose slightly out of the money because the premium is...

Great strategy, agreed. Stops get triggered like crazy at S/R levels and MA's, setting the stage for powerful reversals after the shakeouts. I've profited well from this, and gotten shaken out as well, learning a lot in the process.

Up $1375 on the day, but things may not look so good tomorrow: July 29: APWR hitting new lows, so I went long at the retracement following the first failure to hit a new low (23.60). I set no stop because the price was solid and I was willing to hold overnight if necessary. It then dropped...

+ 1375 I'm having trouble trading my top picks early in the day and also with letting profits run with looser stops (left tons of $$ on the table with APWR and CLF). Holding CNC short and BIDU puts overnight. May have to cut the loss on BIDU puts if it continues toward 350 :(

To me, a good ROI is enough profit after taxes to attain your goals. My goal was to make a living off my $130K trading account. I never earned more than $35K a year in my life, so .5% - 1% a day I've been averaging is well beyond my goals so far. Talk to me in 5 years; by then I might feel...

Thanks, z0r. I have to make this work, or I have to get a regular job, so I've put my heart and soul into it, and you wouldn't believe the mistakes I made the first four months.