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I have a regular 9-6 job, and do not plan to quit it before I am fully convinced that I can make a decent living by trading. So My trading hours is 8pm-midnight or 7am to 9am Eastern Time. Anything I can trade? Which broker? I don't mean to jump into trading right away, but i want to know the...

Thank you all. Got it!

New in trading. Only doing paper trading now, and found fees can eat up a big part of profit for good days, and for bad days, fees just make things even worse. My trading habbit: 2K-3K shares per trade, 20 -30 trades a day (40-60 round trip transactions), only intraday swing. Which firm is...

I was referred by a forum member to this thread. It was indeed a good read. I am new in trading, but I guess I am kind of mix of step 1 to 4. Does every successful trader follow the same route? I'd like to challenge it. Maybe market will bite me really hard (it bite me really hard once, and I...

Hi, Eagle, Thanks for the reply, it is really nice to know those things. However, my original questions remain unanswered. Is it true that once the trailing stop order is triggered, it becomes a market order? If so, it maybe dangerous. Also, what does it trailing to? Does it use the...

New in trading. Want to ask few basic questions on trailing stop orders. 1. For stock A, the current price is $19.00, I entered a 0.10 as stop parameter for sell orders. If the stock goes up to 19.4 and then pulls back to 19.30, (it is down 0.10 from last peak 19.40), so the stock will be...

I have no ideas what you guys are talking about. can anyone give me a tutorial? or a link to help me undertand what you guys are doing? I am a tradre wanna be. After reading some MSG in thsi threads, my impressions are that you guys only trade for openning, maybe gap up or gap down stocks...

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I undersatnd the meaning of MACD, MA, sort of stuff, but what is the meaning of the zeron line. Does it mean that on t hat line, the difference of 26 MA and 12 day MA is zero?

Disagree. No matter how hard people try, there are many people will fail. Some say 90% will fail. If they quit their job, what's going to happen if they fail? Not making a penny, or even losing money. To some extend, the market is like a zero sum game, if there are winners, there got be...

what is the holding time? My best picks for 1 day, 1 week and 1 month are different.

Hi, Mark, Thanks a lot for the advice. Well, maybe Ameritrader does have a simulator, but I just don't know. I will give them a call. FW

Thanks Wayne for teh kind advice. My money is already in TD Ameritrade. Any place else other than IB? TIA, Freewilly

If there a place to open an free account? I am very new in trading. Thanks in advance, Freewilly