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what the f.....TXN specialist held my cover short order for 3 minutes, then gapped it against me 65 cents and filled me at the high. a 75 cent loser!!!! i was busy wathcing the other 8 stocks i got filled in and kept wondering why i hadn't gotten a fill back. the bid offer was something like...

got out waaaaaay too early. i cut my size back to just 200 from 400 after the debacle last week. of course, i knew it would happen, lose when trading 400 and make money on 200, but i could not afford another day like that. plus, i need to work on my exits, especially when i have a lot of...

here are the significant ones. 09:32:28 Bought 400 AOL 13.52 09:35:26 Sold 400 AOL 13.40 09:34:30 Bought 400 LLY 49.00 09:37:50 Sold 400 LLY 48.61 (0.39) (wasn't watching this one closely as i was paying attention to the others) -- i got out on the low print, and it bounced from...

ouch.....i'm speechless -43 -39 -27 -12 -12 -5 -2 +10 7 longs, 1 short. -$1.30. and with that, i'm negative with this strategy.

i'm very frustrated with my own poor trading. 1 winner 1 loser plus 2 scratch trades. on one of the scratches i oversold, so not only did i exit a trade that started moving as soon i got out, i shorted it. it cost me twenty cents (plus the 50 cents i missed out on). i waited for the other...

avalanche, i used it today, and it worked well. this was my first day using a squawk box and i found the crowd noise to be helpful. every time the market broke to new lows this morning, the noise would pick up noticeably. meanwhile, on the brief 2-3 point retracements, it was quiet, indicating...

i got hurt in NKE on 24 cents in slippage on 3 of the 5 lots i traded. then i gave back profits in two. so i had two scratch trades and a loser. should've been up about a quarter overall, not down a quarter. very, very poor trading on those two. i've created a large watchlist, and shorts...

that's funny, because TXN is the stock i was talking about! i was long, the offer spread up something like 60 cents higher. i immediatedly threw out an offer 15 cents below the offer. it printed the block and i did not get filled, even when the bid went above my offer. it came all the way back...

thanks stockman, that makes sense.

upset, nah i wasn't upset at in the least bit. :) sorry if it somehow came off that way. i knew you were right, i was just curious about why. thanks for the help. one more question, why do you think he doesn't he have to fill me at the block print? is this because he has two minutes to fill the...

ok. why do you think, if you do, it is more likely that i'll get filled on a market order on the block print, but not a limit order?

i used to use NX exclusively, but in the last week or so, i'm starting to think EX orders are better in some cases. for example, say your long and the offer spreads up 60 cents and you know that a block print is forthcoming. i've noticed that if i put in a NX sell limit exit in the middle of...

3 of 6 --- +25, +22, -1, +3, -5. (take out another 3 cents for commissions) i blew one of these very badly, should've been a quarter point winner instead of a scratch. oh well.

maybe i should rethink if this strategy is for me. i'll give it two months or so to decide. i don't think i can justify holding through a 30 cent shakeout, when the winners seem to be about that large (though sometimes you can get a half, and even more if you turn it into a longer term day...

here's an example from today. JPM - opened at 30.71, and i was filled long. post opening, it went 4500 @ 30.70 x 30.72 @ 62,900 offer of 62,900 stepped down to 30.71 i market out when bid at 30.71 gets taken out, filled at 30.65. 59,000 steps down to 30.66, then to 30.65...

-9, +14, -3, -3, -27. these include commissions, not a good morning -$115 on 500 shares a piece. my exits weren't the problem. sure they could've been better on a couple (when can't they be) - but, if i had waited on the others, they would've gone against me more. if a stock goes...

ahhhh....that's a great heads up lescor. i was well aware of the MOC imbalances related to window dressing and the rebalancing of the russell indices going into the close. however, i didn't look for the closes to be so skewed for the large caps, because on a normal day, imbalances are normal...

how did everybody do today? me, not so good, 1 win 4 losses (let profits slip away in 1), but i've been up 4 out of 6 days, so i'm not complaining.

quest was one of andersen's biggest clients, and like WCOM, went to KPMG. andersen billed Q $11.9 million versus $16.8 million for WCOM. i can't tell over what period this is by the sheet i'm looking at.

4 fills -- +70 cents. i had a major problem not being able to get out of my positions because i had my Order Entry set to default OPG (to make it easier entering the pre-market orders). i SWEAR i changed the default back, but no dice. could've been better, but i'll take it. don, those are...