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Completely demoralized. Was up $100 at noon. Decided to keep trading through lunch, instead of sitting out, and got my ass handed to me the rest of the day. I'm embarrassed to admit that I lost 217.46. Wow. How could anyone lose money on a day like this??? Unreal. Trying to keep my head...

Break even today, was down 60 bucks at one point. I have trouble pulling the trigger on highly volatile stocks like RIMM. I'll sit and watch a stock move $1, all while my finger is on the trigger. This is my very first month trading and I've improved drastically since the beginning of the...

+22.50 for the day, +71.01 for the week. I guess there's hope for me yet. *edit* Sorry for the dumb question, but: What is LFT?

Can someone explain why ADBE is showing a crazy looking chart like it is? Is $43 some magical number I don't know about? It looks like it wants to pop up explosively at any second. But, of course, it doesn't. I don't have a position, I'm just wondering what the veterans make of it.

I hope no one in here bought Dryships at 84.19 LOL

LOL yeah...like the world will stop and wait for IB to get their sh!t together.

I guess this is a wake up call for people who don't use hard stops. :p Now that I think about it, does a stop loss sit at the ECN or on IB's servers?????

Ditto in Orlando. Glad I didn't have any open positions at the time. WOW. I would've FREAKED! :eek:

+18.50 My nuckles are still white. :eek:

Forgot my blotter...

I'm done for the day. Market rallied, then went completly flat. +56 no negative trades! Merry Christmas.

-67.76 Thank you, Market, for today's lesson! :D My tight stops kept me from making 300-400. Gotta love it. ...and my vote for most retarded stock goes to CELG. See ya Monday.

Raped. Again. -246 Too depressed to upload a blotter. I got blasted from the word 'go' today. First 2 trades: down almost 300. Walked away...slowly. Came back when I cooled down and only traded 200 shares at a time . I scalped my way to a smaller net loss, but still upset with myself. I...

whitster: That was a nice post. Thanks.

mgabriel01: it looks like GS is bouncing back. That's a heck of a loss you're willing to take with that stop loss. I keep mine at one or two dimes. You're talking dollars! :) Thx for the replies.

Alright, I have a question for the veterans: If you were to have traded BIIB this morning, what whould have been your stop? 0.20? 0.30? Was I right in raising my stop to break even (even though I was stopped out, instead of riding it out for a nice profit)? Please criticise and ridicule...

Okay, here's the lesson I learned today: I was watching BIIB. It looked SO strong, I bought 500 shares. Set stop at .20 below. BIIB goes up and I raise my stop to break even. BIIB goes down JUST far enough to hit my stop and then fly back up. Argh. So, I keep watching. Spot another entry and...

-15.50 Only made 6 trades for a total of 2000 shares traded. Scaling back a little as I learn. Would have been positive if it wasn't for DRYS. I'll never trade that stock again. I've never seen a stock whip up and down as violent as that stock does.

Bah! -63.25 for the week. Oh well, WAY better than last week. I'm learning!

First time poster. I'm a newbie daytrader. I just opened up my IB account on the 4th of this month. Anyway, I registered to ET after reading (skimming a few pages of) this thread. It's a great idea and kinda makes you more accountable (if that's possible) for your trades if your have to post...