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Down $35. I struggled so hard. If it weren't for the specialist giving me a charity print on MRO, I would have been in more pain.

There's always someone out there making money, I realize that. But, this is the first real "bull market" I've ever traded, and I'm actually making less money than when things were "mediocre." However, the last two weeks have been way, way more difficult for me. Are you guys generally...

+$43 yesterday -$75 today. I've been having a rough two weeks. It's been a see-saw. I'm getting a little frustrated. October and early November were really good to me, with lots of +$200 [big for my account] days. Now, I'm lucky to make $30-$50.

-$62. 4 losing days in a row. I'm the Anti-Steve Tvardek. Beating the market, but churning a lot too. The market is going "up" every day, but I keep losing every yp day. Maybe I need a mental shift to understand these up days, because this is my first real bull market.

-$7. My usual stocks were so dead it was ridiculous. Thank god for ABT and UNH being in tight but scalpable ranges. Otherwise, I'd have been in the hole.

I don't wish any bad luck upon anybody, but if your streak never ended I'd have been convinced you were some kind of immortal. Good job man. You are truly a role model to beginner traders.

Haha, where were you when I was new and tried KBH? That stock kicked me pretty hard a few times. Don't need the uptick to short it either.

Down $36. Was down $122 to start because I f'd up the opening on a stock, but came back with a few solid hits on UNH. Volatility was garbage today. Need to post here more regularly. Crossed the line from the red to the green for my entire trading history last week.

I made the colossal mistake of relying on open book this morning for an opening order. Since we're on the thread of tape reading, ... how do you guys play the morning on the NYSE? I've never been able to make money on the open, and want to try some strategies using 100s.

Not too terrible. Trying to make some connections with some traders in the area to discuss trading, of course. What do you trade?

I'm with Genesis, remote. I started off with Assent over in West LA for a prop shop, but they got snippy with me when I requested commissions as nice as Genesis. They had me at .008, if you can believe that. I'd have been better of trading with Interactive Brokers from home at those rates...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this request, but has anyone ever tried making feature requests for LASER? I emailed their support thing, and only got a response once. It'd be nice to have hotkey options for NX+1 and NX-1 for buying and selling, like they have in Anvil's Assent...

I am being truthful. I didn't tell any lies. Well, "making a living" for me => $100-$250 a day. For me, that's break-even with living expenses. I've got a fallback cash cushion if things go wrong, but so far things haven't gone wrong. There's a steady uptrend in profits per day, even when...

I'm in Westwood/Century city. Trading from home. Just wondering if there are any other NYSE scalpers in the area. I'm a low volume, profitable trader. No glamour here, but enjoying every second of trading.

Where do I find such places? I'm currently profitable, and I wouldn't mind an entry-level place.

Yep. Very low. I'm not going to pretend I'm a hotshot. I make $100-$250 a day. I'm scaling it up slowly.

I know this sounds dumb, but can you explain this? I want to understand what impact the options market has on stocks.

I make my entire living trading nothing but a $5000 account. I use quite a bit of margin -- far more than 4x that an IB will give you. The best way to go is to be serious about this, find a trading group that does quite a bit of volume, and tag along with them. Or, join a prop shop like...

I'm trying to constrict my EFS formula tests to a specific range of time. I can't figure out how to do that exactly. It seems like if I scroll back then the formula just gets applied on the historical bars of data that e-Signal pulls. Is there any way to constrict these EFS formulas to be...

Fortunately, I don't have a wife. :-) I know better than that. 50% odds of success, and you can't cut your losses necessarily. I just had to deal with mom and dad. Who, btw, aren't talking to me in hopes that I'll fail and snap back to my senses. ;-) I'll win.