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Bob, I've attached a sample of the streaming news regarding CNC. Donna

Major drawdown day; even my long term holdings tanked. Every one of my intended swing trades from the past 3 days was profitable before reversing, reminding me why I wanted to switch to day trading in the first place. The main issue is you have to place loose stops with swing trades on...

OK, I will volunteer to be the trader who makes anyone's losses last week look trivial :( :eek: :mad: :D :D (You can find the very gory details in my journal...)

POT killed me today. Looks like a test of the 200 SMA...

But it was advance warning when that article was originally written (2006). I remember we refinanced our house back then and it had more than doubled in value in a a little over a year and I thought, Whoa, that's not right, something's gotta give.

I had this problem, great paper trading, but an irrational fear the act of actually trading would somehow jinx the strategy. However, it had to be done and the first time I finally pulled the trigger, I automatically entered my stop based on max loss per trade and watched the trade turn against...

Wow, nice advance warning - July 2006.

I see that Alan Farley also considered CSIQ a strong swing trade after Tuesday's bounce off its 200-day SMA support. I did not, however, intend on holding through the end of the year :eek: http://www.thestreet.com/p/_search/rmoney/energy/10431283_3.html

Jon, Support and resistance constitute the "head game" of those who are playing the same game as you. Trading equities, support and resistance levels within your trading time frame tell you where the majority of people playing the game wished they'd gotten in or out of a position. Support is...

I've heard the 200-period SMA referred to as "God". Believe or it may smite you:eek:

After a strong selloff period in which CSIQ was not even on my radar (those were the shorting opps you describe) it found very strong support Tuesday around 26.60. Wed I traded it for the first time ever when it failed to make a new low after dropping early that morning. Excellent trade. Later...

Reviewing CSIQ swing trade put on last week @ 30.92. Was looking for an initial target of 32.50 and a holding period of about a week. This trade came within a hair of my max loss per trade but it didn't breach near term support (26.50), and in fact found higher lows off that. Unfortunately...

Uh oh. Are you insinuating my mind might not be right? Now I'm starting to worry. I feel my hormones fluctuating. 'Scuse me while I inject some testosterone so tomorrow I can put on some "market-on-open" trades instead of waiting for those perfect setups :D :D :D :D :D

I've been with ETrade since 1997. Their customer service is incredible. I'm rarely on hold more than 10 seconds. Their reps are knowledgeable and go out of the way to be helpful. In fact, not long ago I called with a question and the guy answered it and then asked if there was anything else he...

ARCA reserve. Fortunately the stock gained 20% in a couple days, so the slippage on the buy didn't bother me so much after that.

It was tricky even on a stock that printed 150K a day, took quite some time to get filled at my limit, showing 200 shares at a time. First time I traded the stock, I accidentally hit market instead of limit and the slippage was 2.5% :eek:

ROTFLMAO!! I read The Master Swing Trader and thought the same thing "Someone needs to translate this." I found myself reading the same sentence about 5 times, then ended up just looking at the damn chart he was referring to. Something in there must've stuck, though, because I now have an good...

This really made me laugh. When swing trading became too iffy for me this spring with the market bouncing all over the place and anything less than perfection from a company being punished, I decided day trading was the only safe way to play. What a great feeling it must be to be flat at the...

\ Thanks for your kind words!

I would imagine it's a necessity. Just try to trade 10K shares of a stock priced under $10 without immediately affecting the market and you have some idea of what the pros are up against.