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+775 today - was down 800 shortly after open

Turning off the real time PNL on my IB screen was the best thing I could have done for myself. +1198

Blotter.

Finally figured out how to post blotter - I am sure I will get some flack for doing it today but at least I know how. Best day yet for me +1083. Can't wait to read this later - I am guessing a lot of you guys really racked up.

I need to learn when to take profits - twice was up about 350 just to have it all reversed. -125

+78.37 - slowing it down a bit - moved from futures to the DIA SPY and QQQQs as well as options

-275.32 today - have an option position hurting me and the other ones cannot make it up

Terrible. Was short at the open and stopped out only for the market to collapse 5 minutes after I was stopped out. Then tried to buy the ER2 dip and that killed me. Got some back in some options trading later in the day. -964

Didn't like the action early in the day so I just quit after an hour and did some other work. Was a good thing I probably would have just continued to lose in the chop that was most of the day. -225

Congrats to those that didn't get the wind knocked out of them on the last 15 minutes of the day. I was having a huge day for me until then - greed got the best of me and I lost my discipline being up about 2200 as I was before the end. +774.68 on the day - and given that I just watched the...

-171 for me today - but that includes some overnight options positions that may work tomorrow - long some INTC 30 puts and some QQQQ 52 puts

+2046 net for me today - long one stock (worked), long call spreads on same stock, 5 ER2, 7 ES, 2 YM

Better for me than as of late... +455

-1700 - like watching a car wreck in slow mo

Congrats Szeven - that is freaking amazing. As for me -$25 trying to slow it down a little...

+839 net 8 ES 5 NQ 11 YM 4 ZN

I worked for a hedge fund for the last three years and for a mutual fund company a few years before that. I did lose more than I wanted on my first day but I also followed my discipline pretty well for it being the first day out on my own and feel comfortable given my strategy and my account.

I have entered the trading world officially today. Was up this morning but defintely didn't end that way -990.

I am not exactly sure of the rules, however I am in the same situation. I just left a hedge fund as a member of a broker/dealer to start out on my own. I do know that (this was about 4 years ago) I left another broker/dealer when they closed their office in my town and I had a two year grace...