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no...glw came off of my rake...if you see the daily chart its lower bound was about 20.00, I loaded up short before that about when the DIA dropped below 117. If you see today it gapped downa bit, I don't hold overnights but today its still a nice trade short.

that screen shot didn't come out as well as I wanted. so here is the blotter saved to excel as I usually do for my records. That screenshot is saved as a bitmap, but posted as a jpeg. Could anyone tell me how to get a better one next time? Thanks

that is 1428 gross minus 110 comms and whatever sec fees are taken away as well.

I read this post and thought I would start posting my daily PL. Here is from today.

the last two days were very good days on the short side. hopefully these measure will continue to be a "band aid" thus creating more downward pressure building up. too many rules and controls seem to eventually lead to larger and quicker moves we can profit from this either way

This ban ends Wednesday. I haven't opened a trade with a buy in over 430 trading days, and I believe I have seen some trading changes that could be related to this short term ban. We will see how trading develops on Wednesday this week. As a short seller exclusively during the past two...

This is another great response, thank you.

nice post....i live in a ritzy town, i live in in on the cheap side, and i like working in the morning and having the rest of my day free. I don't care who knows how much money i make, i still buy my cars with cash, and like to have cash in my wallet to pay for everything. That's the best...

Anyone who has had a huge trade probably experienced this. Why does it happen? Well, when you add to a position already going in your favor, you put more stress on the guys holding positions going against them. I experience this when I add to large short positions, you bang it down...

Nice post. Thank you for taking the time to be detailed and complete.

From someone who did it all of the ways, I will tell you, that the period where i had no extra job and just traded, was the best period of my life. Early this year I had the opportunity to do some lucrative consulting work for a firm. I took the work initially and my trading suffered. It...

From someone who did it all of the ways, I will tell you, that the period where i had no extra job and just traded, was the best period of my life. Early this year I had the opportunity to do some lucrative consulting work for a firm. I took the work initially and my trading suffered. It...

I started trading at 32 and last year, 2007, at 39 I seven folded my accounts. The best trading year of my life. I am now much better than I ever was at 30. In my 20s, I was traveling and playing tennis, I have develop successful teaching and coaching strategies in academia and tennis...

This situation is SIMPLE. You have your list of short stocks in your rake. If the market opens down, you enter your positions on the open (shorts). You cover the losers and add to the winners, monitoring the market all day long. If the pullbacks (rallies) in this potential down day are on...

Sometimes the most difficult things to learn are: 1. living well in the face of uncertainty (it surrounds us in all aspects of life but in trading it seems more apparent), and also knowing that the greatest trades sometimes lie on the outliers, where there exists the most uncertainty...

I meant that trading is the most important thing, trade and improve your skills. If you can have a decent life or live well and practice by trading small, then trade. Lots of traders seem to worry about their results (if they are bad) and wonder why they are not a trading success in their...

Great points. You gotta find backers or investors with the same tolerance for heat as you have as a trader, if you choose to have backers or investors. That's also why there exist agreements where capital is locked up for a year or more. You don't want capital pulled out when there is a...

Well once you have a system, however you get one, trading is kinda simple and the tough part is that it can be boring. It goes against what the middle and lower classes are taught to make money by "sitting there" "doing nothing" but watching your screens (even day trading is boring for me)...

You sure have a lot of posts, is that what you mean by your numbers? If so yes I would say your numbers are phenomenal. Just kidding don't get all steamed now. Maybe don't take it so seriously, this is a chat room where most people here do not make a living trading. Its a chat room...

I wanted to see if the interest is there to start a group of traders(not trading together, not financially affiliated) who might be interested in focusing only on the positive aspects of their business. If any of you have done this in other areas of your life, you would probably know better...