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I only very recently, days ago actually, increased my IB account to $50k. I started there in May with $10k. I am not sure there even is a minimum. Commissions are laughably small at my level. I don't even notice them. If I ever get up to $1M, it will be some time in the fairly distant future. I...

BTW what are you using for a screener? Without a decent screener you are just fumbling in the dark. You need some sort of screener to put you onto stocks in play. Don't rely on tips! If I want to put more buyers on to a stock that I already own, that I bought while it was still down in the dirt...

He might be referring to OTC stocks, based on another thread he started.

LOL!

Sounds like somebody trying to learn calculus before long division. Go on Amazon and search for "day trading" and "beginner" and see what comes up. Give the "For Dummies" books a miss. They make me feel like somebody with no prior knowledge of day trading decided to write a book on day trading...

So far I have done all day trading, no swing trading. I am liking IB. I am just starting, only been live trading since May, but I did do a lot of comparison shopping. If you run Linux, then you want IB. TOS is maybe in general a better trading platform than TWS which is IB's platform, but IB is...

Hey, thanks for that.

Right on. Thanks. I was going to start out with the same size positions I was using with the $10k account. I wanted to keep my balance, now that I am finding it. The only difference is I don't have to worry about do I trade and set the PDT clock back, or wait for an even better setup, or trade...

Okay my deposit finally cleared the bank, now I have transferred $40,021 to my $10k account for a total of $50k. Well, actually it was standing at $9979. When I got locked out by PDT, I was at $9920-something. I don't know how more money got into my account. This happened one other time. Not...

Another daily dose of 60s sound.

S-Trader brings up another good point. Look how far it is from your SMA collection when you bought in. Just another way of looking at it.

So you bought when, exactly? At 1055, after the big bull candle? That is chasing the stock. Taking an entry so late in the up move is risky at best. When you see that formation, wait and let the price move sideways a bit, with decreasing volume. Watch for it to level out, maybe give you a...

Okay, so we have all heard and repeated the percentage of new day traders who fail to become profitable, and this is commonly stated to be around 80% or 90%, depending on who you ask. Well, 74% of all statistics are just made up on the fly anyway, right? But anyhow, I think a majority of the...

Oh okay. I did notice my post was deleted. I just didn't want any innocent lambs to be lured to the slaughter on that "sure thing".

Oops. Sorry about my post. Didn't realize I was violating, and I won't do it again. I meant well.

Ooooooo, nice. Never seen that kind of data before. Honey Badger and Diamond Dragon are taking the lions share of the cookies with them when they leave the table? Is this list current, or have all the big players already bailed? I see some guys have taken more than one slice of the pie. Bouse...