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I don't know why you keep asking me. I'm not the one that one should be following. LOL Like I said, I'm not a profitable trader, only on paper. If you really read all the way through the journal. I talk about it. Don't pay attention to the Day Trader Rockstar stuff. Like I mentioned...

Today's fake paper gains .. I really started to bored half way through and went back to bed for a couple hours .. I get so tired of the paper trade. It must've been a while since I had a losing day with the paper. Don't count the one SPY trade for 1000 shares. I went to SLV for a little bit...

+1 Handle, that is one of the most real, honest, and down to earth responses from veteran traders I've gotten. I think often people nowadays have become too self-serving. Some are just sociopaths where they don't care about anyone else but themselves. The fact is that we are not much...

First, I try to trade with what I know and what I'm familar with. I'm not a pro by any means, not even close. I'm right now trying to get the mechanisms of trading down. I don't know the ins and outs of futures trades. I know there is leverage, etc. I heard too that you can lose a lot with...

To everyone here that loves to criticize. Everytime, I ask that question (whether they were consistantly profitable day trading without mentoring 3 months in) of people here, people all stay quiet and yeah I know why. Probably because they've all lost their asses in the beginning. Some are...

Actually the losses would not be that bad for recent times if I didn't have that day where I ended up holding overnight where it ended up being a -700 loss. You said you have a day job. It's good to have a day job to fund your venture but you really also have to have a lot of screen time to...

Wall Street Trader. Are you promoting your own bad music song production efforts? LOL So you were consistantly profitable in 3 months when you started without any mentor? No answer = answer. I don't know of anyone consistanly profitable after 3 months after they began as a day trader...

I just sent you a PM. A lot of issues and what I'm trying to do, I've talked about here on the journal. It's a learning experience for me too. You should see all my other losing days. -32 looks like a winner compared to those days. I actually had a chance to make that a small gain day but I...

-32 Was doing paper trades and was +28 in 20 min so I went back to the account and did the real thing. I could've scalped out on the losses but tried to hit the HR. 2 Bad trades. I'm on the cusp of blowing out my account again so why not? They fooled me to doing an ACH earlier this week...

Thanks for the input Paper trades get boring for me but that is what I have to do. I thought I resolved some of these button pushing issues for a while only to have it come back today. I'll do paper trades for the rest of the week and some of next week. There are logical explanations for the...

-155 I think I'm done for a while. I'll be doing the paper for a week. I need to get certain things down such as button pushing. I'm not a morning person and it is hard for me to be clear headed in the morning. Small gains wiped out by big losses. Bought 94.84 13:26 Sold 94.73...

Good luck on your journal. Keep posting to it and give the numbers. People will read your updates and give feedback. Don't post paper trade results because we all know how deceptive it is. If you paper trade, I suggest doing limit orders only. Market orders on the paper trade will give you...

+38 Lightspeed has a whole host of issues. I have call them every morning now with their system being a mess to make sure that I can trade. I have to get them to go through all my P&L and ACH to make sure I have more than 25K where I am right on the cusp. Ridiculous. I was very cautious...

Thanks for the input. I no longer trade off the 1 min chart. I just use the 5 min chart and will occasionally look at the 3 month one to see where the day may be headed. My first bad trade. The move was so fast up that I was surprised. By the time, I put in an order to get out for +.03...

-76 Doomed today. As usual 2 bad trades doomed me. So much info. to pay attention to. Sold Short 89.25 10:47 Bought Cover 89.41 10:54 Basically got in good. It was going my way and got greedy. I didn't have a stop order in. It moved fast down and fast back up. Could've had a...

+66 Only one bad trade on the day. Every drop down will have a pullback. So after losing -670 on Thursday, here is my pullback. LOL Sold Short 87.55 12:28 Bought Cover 88.58 12:28 I accidently entered on what I thought was a limit order. My previous order was a market one to exit...

Don't want to ruin Lescor's thread but I would much prefer to have socialized health care here. I don't care about paying higher taxes to get it. I don't make much per year anyhow. My mom just got discharged from the hospital after surgery. Her surgery was considered outpatient. They...

I guess people like new areas if it's something different than what they're used to. I live in the Peninsula near Palo Alto. I dig So. Cal (not LA) but San Diego and Orange County. Very nice scenery down there if you know what I mean. I lived in Pacific Beach down in SD for over a year a few...

Thanks man, I might do more paper trading next week even as my ACH comes through. I get bored with paper trades. Profitability isn't hard with paper. BTW.. Are you in Huntington Beach in CA? Is that what jas _in_hbca means?

Believe me, I hate doing ACH's and don't have much left to do it. I only really have one chance at this before blowing my life's savings. ACH is not any solution for me. I only do it to keep my account alive. It is mostly psychology for me. I do well on the paper. I had another plus day...