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"You have not even went through the necessary initial learning curve of losing money as you learn the ropes and everyone goes through that." You have not read my original post. I have been at this 3 prior years before the I started back again. I was make about only about 200 per day on avg...

Hydroblunt, I don't how you're as a trader but stocks lke VLO, AAPL, and SNDK are the exact stock you should be trading. How else are you supposed to make money without the volatility inherent in these stocks? Let me assure you that I am not BSing anyone here. Another thing is its not...

Guys, thanks for the advices. I know what you mean by getting cocky and ruining everything. I am actually a very pessimistic person so I am always trying to see if all this is real but still manage to mess things up. I was up at the peak of $4500 today at 3pm. All the trades I made was a...

I know exactly what you mean about revenge trading. I did that quite often when I wasn't doing well and quit trading to start my law career. What I realized now is that because I don't let the winners run as long as I should I should not let the losers run too much either. Before I was...

Guess what, it has not stopped. Its incredible. Now, I only make about 6 to 10 trades per day and come out at least $1500 per day. No more going in for few pennies anymore. I realized I miss the bigger boat during the scalp trades. So I wait little longer and trade less and so much less...

These are all my trades from yesterday. I was actually bit antsy and frustrated because I could not trade first 1/2 hr of the day because Ameritrade server was down. There were trades I could gotten into that would brought about $500 to $600 but just sat on my front of my computer. I actually...

"One cannot tell how well you are doing if the account amount is not known. I wouldn't be too impressed if you are playing with $50M and only make a few hundred a day (just an exagerated example)." I started with $28000 (which gave me $3000 cushion above the daytrading minimum equity rule)...

"If you are making good money trading and you have no idea why or think it is a fluke then you will lose most of the money back...guaranteed." I would be lot more confidant if I can get this run I am having for at least one more month. These days, I am really afraid. I actually felt worst...

"hello kid do you ever look at how the futures markets are trading or other indicators of intraday market or sector health when daytrading ?" I know I read that I am suppose to look at the futures market but Ameritrade does not have it. But on my second laptop where I have 2 charts (all...

Here is a list of trades I made one day and sent to a friend of mine who was in disbelief 2 weeks ago. I think I was up like $1500 or $1600 that day. I also made so many trades that I had to take a huge nap after 4pm. So tired. Anyone care to comment. I feel like I am definitely overtrading...

"why aren't you smart enough to realize that you could make extra tens of thousands of $ a year in commision savings by switching to IB which is more suited to active/pro traders." I am getting $7 trades with Ameritrade now. I gotten $8 trades for a long time but now I was able to haggle $1...

Here is the deal. After averaging about $200 per day daytrading for about 1.5 yrs, I started trading for others recently with small amount of capital. Earlier in the year, I had used all my capital to pay off the school loan thinking I give my law degree a go. But I fell back into trading...