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    How long did it take for you to be profitable in daytrading?

    Since someone mentioned this link: http://www.trading-naked.com/paul_rotter.htm I'll take an excerpt out: "he had to work hard to make it. he blew up in the beginning of his career, which was painful but also educational - he learned his lesson and with lots of research, seeking...
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    How long did it take for you to be profitable in daytrading?

    Movement of stocks are both up and down . Plenty of movements everyday. Are you sure you can be in the right direction of the move more than 50% of the time ? you can be right 90% of the time with a gain of 1 percent each time, but the other 10% wrong, if you don't get out on time, you...
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    How long did it take for you to be profitable in daytrading?

    Many who aims for 1% consistent rate a day usually hold on to their losses and lose 10% easily, with capital tied up until they are forced to sell to cut loss.
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    be humble ... giving back to society

    Be a good family person. A good Dad/Mother, a good husband/wife, and good brother/sister, a good son/daughter, and you'd be contributing so much to society. Then, go further, be a good friend, and good neighbor, ... simply, a cool head. Edit: I have just realized that as I typed the lines...
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    Can't bring myself to leave my job.

    after year. After two years. But what guarantees that you won't be taken over by greed and make weird mistake after that ?
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    How safe is it to be online without a firewall/antivirus

    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article622421.ece
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    How long did it take for you to be profitable in daytrading?

    People might take 6 months or one day to be profitable. But 9 in 10 will lose all in the next 6 months or so. :-) :-)
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    People like that steve tvardek. Where did you learn DAYtrading??

    Lippy, do you scalp one penny at at time or 10 pennies or .... ? Thanks. Cause each round trade at IB cost 1 dollar for a 100 share lot. I figure you don't scalp 1 pennies.
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    Report: Markets 'Are Like 1987 Crash'

    Market will turn South later today. But I do hope it will not crash. :-)
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    Can't bring myself to leave my job.

    What's the best profession to get stock option ? Accountant ?
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    Lay, Skilling found guilty...

    I wish the Law could get this money back and give it back to the people.
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    Bulletin from IB: charge of 2000 USD for "intensive messaging". Fraud?

    Merkur, it could be that you are making too much money, and IB wants some tips from you. If $2000 is not too much, perhaps you should let them have it . LOL . On a serious note, sometimes, making too much money could be viewed as a threat to the big guys.
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    Bulletin from IB: charge of 2000 USD for "intensive messaging". Fraud?

    I'd like to see the title remain as is. Thanks.
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    Report: Markets 'Are Like 1987 Crash'

    You guys are cracking me up. Yeah, I think this time, it's for real. :-) Black Wednesday it is. Your wish will come true. By my power, I grant you this wish.
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    Report: Markets 'Are Like 1987 Crash'

    :-) They said similar things about stocks last time it crashed . :-)
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    Report: Markets 'Are Like 1987 Crash'

    These days, crashes ususlally take several days.
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    I'm a victim of serious online fraud at brokerage

    Only 13 months in jail ? Too light of a sentence.
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    Lay, Skilling found guilty...

    Bush will be out of office in 2008. I hope Bush won't have a chance to do so. I hope Lay will be forced to give up this $900K/year benefit.
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    I'm a victim of serious online fraud at brokerage

    I used to use AB Watley, and noticed some of their seemingly dishonest practices. So I switched to another broker, and chose a pro trading platform in which you could only enter trades only with the integrated software, not through the browsers. Whenever I was away, I shut down my PC. And...
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