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Hi Sammy, Thanks for sharing. I've been a frequent reader of your journal for a while. Great Work! Could tell me some more info about your deal? I am retail like yourself and was curious how you were able to get .004. Are there other costs as well or is .004 it? Do you get rebates for...

I question some of the logic and experience of the recent posts. No one yet has mentioned how pyschologically difficult IT REALLY IS to "give yourself" more money simply by increasing size. This is such a fallacy it's actually funny that people believe this. This issue is completely...

Got a good move on VC, should have added to it on the way up instead of pussing out. Been trading RIMM like shit lately - its been faking me out for the entire week. Still holding a base position in VRTX. Sold ADBE in after hours yesterday for a good gain.

Hi DT, Yes, the integration is good and I really like the platform overall (I have no affiliation - I am a retail guy and I really could care less) . I cannot say enough good things about the platform and they do have a direct interface with TI that I tried for a while but unfortunately have...

Haha. I pity the person who tries to study this stuff in hopes of a market application. John M., in response to your comment about it being stupid to treat the market as a stream of numbers to find a "signal". While I know what you mean I will say that if the numbers are going up then I'll...

I didn't trade anything yesterday expect a short on XOM that I got a small profit on. A lot of these trades were around longer term positions I have been holding the last few days. PLAB and JMDT had nice moves today. Still holding a large VRTX position that is moving a bit. Will be selling...

Good article OWP. I just got out of two properties in Santa Barbara CA in the last 6 months and another one is currently in escrow. I made over 120% gain combined on the properties. I can only attribute this to luck and some good timing, I wasn't really expecting such a rise and by most...

Starting young is a good thing and maybe you can keep your mind from being altered by the monetary structure imposed on you while grow into adulthood. But, when I was 16 I didn't know sh-t about my true self (you'll know what I'm talking about later) and this is more critical than any trading...

Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I live in SB (Montecito) and you have no clue buddy. There's actually quite a bit of decent reletively affordable real estate near San Marcos/154 in the mountains that is actually 20 minutes from downtown SB. There isn't too much nasty traffic...

I think you're right. My take on this is that a healthy ego is one that removes the bias created by emotion and can accept mistakes without anger and/or frustration. I think we all experience a discomfort level while in any trade - at least I do. I get uncomfortable quite often. Why? Because...

So true.

Hi Sammy, I think you have it right - this is essentially what I've been doing lately. Cutting down my size while trying to let the moves work themselves out over a day or two. Nutzo, This market isn't exactly directional IMO so I could understand how one would probably think that it...

What does Ex-D mean? Thanks, Mike

Well, I cannot compete in volume with anyone here but I had an average day. Been trading fairly small and infrequently lately. Still holding some stuff from yesterday and holding leftover TASR and VRTX from today. Mike

In your first part I'd say that timing isn't really very important and testing an entry point with samll size is. In your second part I think that certain failing traders deperately need to do something and this is an emotionally based decision making process not a logical/rational process...

Man, you have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about. Luck has nothing to do with it. Also, you might want to think about random entries and money management a little harder. That Gorilla probably grasps this concept better than most people here. Mike

I agree with the poster who said most of what is said here so far is a bunch of cliches. Never add to a loser is a cliche because a loser isn't a loser until you realize it and the same can be said for a winner. If you make perfect entries and go "all in" with every entry and are profitable -...

Hydro, I remember you gave me some grief a while back when I posted a trade on this forum for a long on NMTI. I went into the red on that trade right off the bat and it then it bounced back within a few days to my entry.I doubled my size at my entry and then added 1k shares more on the...

Goodpunk, C'mon.. It's only been six months. Did you really expect to acquire a wealth of knowledge in 6 months? It takes years. As in plural/many/several years. Brokerboy is right - its not you - its your style and that can be easily changed.

Only retail buyers can drive up the price. These stocks are on thin ice and the insiders know it. There is no confidence in the market as a whole. People with longer term horizons are generally weary of buying into a very hot housing market. Anyone with common sense sholud be weary of buying...