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    Trading Dummies

    Here's the stocks I'm watching from the open. I usually also watch anything that looks decent that's making new 52week highs or lows (ala MaoXian). Long: AMD, CPST, IMDC, FDRY, DKS, A Short: TEF, AVII, VOD, BCSI, SCH, GCI, TGT, AKS Hopefully everyone has a good day today!
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    Trading Dummies

    I've traded it about the same amount of time as you. Up about 5% which is great in my opinion.
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    Trading Dummies

    Great trade! Nice R/R on that one... Just curious, I'm guessing you didn't see ASEI on your radar until mid-day... it would have been a killer trade had you entered on the break of the 2nd bar. How long have you paper-traded and how are your results so far? Pete
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    Trading Dummies

    Well, not the greatest day today... once again a tight range on the indices. Ended up with -1.5% ROI on 9 trades today. Stopped out on Longs: VRTX, PCH, MWV Stopped out on Shorts: KNX Broke even on EYET long & small winner on HMT short. Only 2 decent trades, a 1R trade on AVII & 2R...
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    Trading Dummies

    I will say that TI does cause headaches... I think it's just a matter of getting the parameters tweaked properly though. That being said, I've got a decent set of parameters right now but I do have the problem of getting too many results... gotta work on that. If anyone knows of a scanner...
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    Trading Dummies

    Well today was fairly non-eventful. Ended up taking 11 trades, 1 ended up right around b/e, 5 stopped out and 5 for small profits. Today ended up down about 1.5% ROI. For the 3 days I traded this week, I ended up with a very respectable 2.98% ROI. I'm not going to post any charts (from...
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    Trading Dummies

    Yeah that looks a bit better... today's been fairly slow but I'll see if it gives any decent signals. Good Trading!
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    Trading Dummies

    Now for the loser. With GM restating financial results, and the gap down, it was definitely in my scope for today. After making a small doji on the 10am bar, I had looked to go short on any break. This bar provided very very low risk entry, with a stop only $0.20 above. The trade looked...
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    Trading Dummies

    Ok, here's my attempt at posting some charts. Today went quite well using the dummies technique. I had made 9 total trades, with 5 being winners. All done on 15min charts. I'll highlight one winner, and one loser. Here's the winner. SNDA had a gap down on relatively high volume...
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    stop orders do you use them

    Is it possible to have a stop order at Swift? Or just mental stops...
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    Trading Dummies

    I agree Babak. As long as there's market interest in the stock, you could use the dummies setup. The key is making sure the stock has some sort of reason to move, such as sector strength, news, earnings etc... because I can see a lot of scratched dummies trades if you get in while the stock...
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    Trading Dummies

    Oh, and yes I was talking about your OSUR chart post. Pete
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    Trading Dummies

    I think trading dummies set-ups such as that are a fantastic idea, at least until you get a few months of dummies under your belt. I would trade with the trend when the gap is in the same direction. I personally wouldn't go long at all on the chart you posted earlier, no matter what. It...
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    Trading Dummies

    Hey New Guy, I'm just going by your chart (I believe it's 30 min). I think Babak will agree... the first candle is quite bearish, although the gap was up. This kind of makes you wonder what the direction will be. I think for high % plays you want to have a nice bullish candle at the open...
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    Trading Dummies

    IMHO, I would have probably scrapped watching PGIC once that first candle became so bearish. The gap was up but that candle made it too range bound to bother.
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    Swift Trade - What's new and exciting..

    This is the key part of the post... Swift offers buying power that a lot of new trader's cannot even dream of. You also don't have to trade for pennies or credits at Swift, the only limitation is not being able to hold positions overnight (company policy). If you have a good intraday...
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    Trading Dummies

    Hi guys... first time posting pretty much. I had been credit trading for about a year, but finally got burned out by it. I've read over this thread and all the links, and absolutely love the simplicity of this strategy. Today I had 3 stocks on my watchlist: QCOM, AMGN, MRK The MRK...
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    Nasdaq Totalview, opinions wanted

    This doesn't really work when I've the order could sit there for hours. Who knows if an order has been pulled in front of me, or if it's been hit, etc... That just won't work.
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    Nasdaq Totalview, opinions wanted

    Ok, so just to confirm... You cannot see the actual depth of BRUT orders? (ie. I have bid at 1.50 placed at a time of 09:29:00, I want to be able to see where in line this order is... whether it's got very little shares in front of it or a lot of shares.) The reason is for credit...
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    Nasdaq Totalview, opinions wanted

    Ok... so what is your trading software? I'd like to hear from the Nasdaq guy in regards to Totalview and the Brut book.
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