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It's always nice to wake up to profits. That's the nicest part of holding overnight. My one share of TSLA on my IB account cost me $1829.65 and it is up above $1900 and now has a stop under it with $40 profit locked in. My 98 shares of TQQQ in my Alpaca account are doing well, too. Since buying...

I wouldn't count The Donald out just yet. I think the Dems are doing a good job of capitalizing on weaknesses and perceived weaknesses of the current administration, but I think POTUS still has a few rabbits left to pull out of the hat. He COULD win though I wouldn't bet even money on it. Trump...

That's best, of course. It is pretty hard for some folks to raise that much disposable cash, though. And some peeps just don't want to put that much money into it, but have all the time in the world to trade up. Also, learning to trade live, with real money, can be a perilous process. If you...

Well I paid over $20k last year in "trader education fees" and I don't even know who I paid them to. Probably you guys. Thanks for the lessons. If the total cost to a highly motivated and reasonably smart wannabe trader is less than what he would lose going at it solo, then maybe it is not a...

End of trading. $13024 total equity. Before the closing bell I put the rest of my cash in TQQQ so now I have 98 shares, no margin and I am up $237 or 1.85% and yeah it coulda been better but that's not bad. And I think I am looking at $50 to $100 improvement in the premarket tomorrow. My high...

Okay, so I bought back in, 50 shares TQQQ and right now it is down $6 for the position. Meanwhile there was some grumble about RUMBL and on the big computer with the teeny weeny IB account I bought 30 shares and stopped out for $9 profit before it plummeted. I can't trade TQQQ on the IB account...

Darn. The lunchtime slump hit early and stopped me out. That's okay. Still profitable. And I might go back in with all cash before the closing bell if it looks good for an overnighter. Nasdaq still has a lot of juice left in it. Pay no mind to the bold blue line. I was just extrapolating from...

In at 0900 with 190 shares TQQQ @ $129.86. All time high a few days ago was $131.93 I think. If I sell there, that's $393 profit so that seems like a worthy goal. Then again, if it goes up $4 from my fill price my profit will be $760. A better goal! Anyway I will get what I get. And now the bell...

Just the slow ones. No big loss.

Honestly, I don't see why it is worth anything at all. I am holding some, nevertheless.

It has been called inverted firecracker for centuries. You dishonor this noble candlestick by calling it anything else and it will haunt you and jinx every trade where it appears to you.

Mostly I did it trading ABCD or Bull Flag type setups, pharma stocks under $20 sometimes under $10, lots of general penny stocks too, loading up, trailing stops up tight. Talking up to 100k shares. You can do that, paper trading. They are gonna fill immediately with no sliding and sell just as...

Exactly. Paper fills are perfect. Exactly as you order. Real world fills don't work that way. I traded my IB paper account up over 1M LOL! If I could have done that in the same time period with my live account, well I would probably be too busy to be in this thread right now.

That's a good one. Traders and investors who know they are trading the hype will be quick to dump the stocks that have little substance, when the market declines heavily. One would think, anyway.

It's the fills. They are always perfect in paper trading. And in paper trading, nobody is watching your orders.

Just interested mainly in what everyone anticipates shorting when the bears take over, mostly. And what stocks it might be bad to get caught holding.

I agree. I have been in voluntary PDT exile with my small account since I resumed trading a couple months ago, and I started out trying to save day trades by letting promising stocks ride overnight. My picks have more often than not leaned toward improving overnight and into the opening candles...

I don't suppose it does pattern recognition, or mean regression, anything like that? Looks very simple. Maybe too simple. If I ever have time maybe I will check it out. What I would really like is for IB's API to be as simple and well documented and work as good as Alpaca's API, and for IB to...

I am still in my TQQQ position though it is not doing what I expected. After much up and down in the premarket I was a few bucks in the red, then it took a pretty hard stabby plunge, putting me almost $200 in the red. The fear factor was definitely there. WTF is the Nasdaq DOING? My eyes and my...

and now the day is done. I finished at $9048.80, up from $9010.80 this morning. At my peak I was up $248. So I gave back like $190 or so of my hard won profit. Sounds like a pretty crummy day, right? Even though my P/L is at a so-so .42% increase. So what did I do wrong? Mainly I did not...