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-670 I officially blew out my account. I got in a trade yesterday late on a short position at 92.81 and also at 93.23 in extended session. The extended session was a mistake where I meant to change the limit order to buy on the 92.81 short position but I pressed sell instead of buy so I...

After Delays.. I came back and realized what I missed. Just did one last quick scalp. +5 (took liquidity on it to get out) Sold Short 93.30 14:59 Bought Cover 93.26 15:00 I wished I got in earlier on this. Oh well, I got out since I saw it was far down the slope already.

+54 Lucky day. Real choppy. I was extremely lucky in that I was using the stop button again and the mistake went in my direction for once. Fortunately it set off when I wanted to put in a limit order. GS: Sold Short 95.68 11:41 Bought Cover 95.87 11:45 Only Bad Trade. Pushed my...

Thanks for reading my journal. It says that your journal has been moved or deleted? I'm new to this game. 2 months experience. I'd know what my issues are and I'm trying to step out of my comfort zone to let myself become a profitable trader. I am glad that I have improved since the...

+18 Profit after Commissions/Fees (Lots of trades = Lots of Commissions but better than Scottrade) Missed the opening running off down on GS due to taking my mother in for surgery. I initially had a great trade to start off but also had two bad trades today but it only should've been one bad...

May not be able to hit the market today. Gotta take my mother to have her surgery.

+13 approx. probably less due to a few market orders. Today was a tough day. Definitely grinding it out on a choppy day. I had one bad trade and it hurt: Sold Short 97.96 13:28 Bought Cover 98.20 13:38 Again, I was itching and not drawing the most conservative trend line from...

LOL.. so you were referring to yourself in the third person.. like Ricky Henderson did. LOL. I thought you actually had someone coaching you. I make reminders in my journal all the time and talk to myself but never in the third person. LOL. Sorry no offense, just didn't realize it until you...

I didn't read through the whole journal but is this coach a consistantly profitable trader? If so, why doesn't this coach have sit down sessions with Lucias during trading hours and trade there with him? Also who's money is on the line if it's not Lucias'?

-220 Another rough day. The stock was just not trending at all. 3 bad trades sunk me again. Sold Short 102.47 11:23 Bought Cover 102.85 11:40 After all that winning yesterday. I just got sloppy with drawing the trend lines again. I got in at a point where it it did not allow me...

+8 Couldn't help myself. Did a last quick scalp. Bought 100.40 15:40 Sold 100.45 15:40 The intent was to hold on a bit but the way it was moving like crazy downward made me be content with getting out. I was happy with the scalp. I missed out on a earlier one (15 min prior)...

I would love to be a Canadian citizen and get the free health care. Screw those health insurance companies here. I would short their stocks at every opportunity if I could. There's no other reason to leave other than for warm weather vacations. :D

Well, today my ACH went through so I did a few trades. Calling it a day even though the market hasn't closed. I figured after all those up days that either yesterday or today would be a shorting day. +86 Sold Short 103.49 10:01 Bought Cover 103.22 10:03 Really lucky on...

Dustin, Very interesting thoughts. I wish I could use trade ideas but that is a service I cannot afford right now but would consider in the future if I do well later on. I know that the market doesn't have the volatility as in the past but I'm doing this because the job market is tough...

Thanks man.. you too.. I recall reading some post you did before on scalping and that it has helped you. Hope that it holds. Good luck. Do you trade actually trade penny stocks? High volatility with them but can be very profitable if done right. I was reading about Tim Sykes' blog on his...

Also isn't .03 cents on 100.00 stock the same as .30 cents move on 1000.00 futures contract move? :confused: Correct me if I'm wrong because I don't trade futures. My game hasn't gotten to that point.

If I was looking at other stocks, I could probably find more setups to scalp. I suspect that this is what Lescor is doing with trade ideas. I think he has a program set up to buy for him on those ones. 15-25 cent moves would depend on the stock. If DePietro was trading Apple or Google, 15-25...

I do .03 scalps if I sense that there is not a lot of movement in my favor. I do it to just get out basically while getting out slightly ahead. If the I think it's got more room to run, I let it go a little more. Those .03 trades have saved me many times because they allowed me to get out...

While waiting for the ACH to take place. Another paper trade day with 14 trades and only one negative trade. I used mostly limit orders on the paper so that's probably as real as it can be trading paper. I did this in two hours as I usually wake up later. My ammo is mostly scalps. This is...

You're right.. emotional hinderances get in the way. I hadn't had a losing trade in two weeks which was something I didn't know how to handle because I was losing everyday before. I had a goal everyday to make a certain amount, once I got there I stopped. Being new to this game, I was...