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It is sort of interesting and funny that people will post when someone loses in their journal. Sort of making one feel superior I suppose. I am by no means a good trader. I am purely treading water as I try to improve. I do like constructive criticism but I do find it interesting that people...

+14 Sold Short 116.50* 15:00 Bought Cover 116.60 15:05 One losing trade. Theoretically 2 bad trades. Thought it would try to go back down but I opted to just get out. It psyched me out and could've been positive had I waited. I hate it too when I only get a partial order. I had to...

Wow.. you're rich!! Wished I had the guts to hold overnight. The anxiety would just kill me. The ends justify the means I suppose.

+12 A lot of overlap today. Tough to figure out what's going on. Tried some with the trend ones. I don't like the scalps but a day where there is a lot of overlap, scalps seem ok. I just wonder when I will get back to where I was last week. Tough to get any traction. Sold Short 117.24...

Wish that I could, I'm not a computer science guy. There are a lot if this happens, then that response issues that have to be programmed in. I don't know how to do it. Theoretically, one could make a lot of money if they know how to design a program to seek through the market for the best setups.

I do want to be profitable. I realized the mistake of one of the setups I used couple days ago. I don't like the anxiety. That's part of why I want to get out so quickly. My account is running on fumes so that is additional reason why I want to just take small profits. The problem is that...

+11 Bought CAT 113.92 15:38 (300) Sold CAT 113.93 15:38* *Another accident where I pressed the wrong button again and entered on a market order. I was lucky to get out with a slight loss due to fees. Bought 117.14 15:54 Sold 117.16 15:54 Sold Short 117.47 15:58 Bought Cover...

-.070 Was mostly watching the market before I fell asleep. I was too emotionally exhausted from yesterday. Didn't get any sleep after the market closed yesterday. Missed out on a good opportunity at that time today. I made a mistake in entering the price on one early. Didn't mean to...

-110 Nonetheless. couple real bad trades. I have no patience. Tough week. Sold Short 113.40 09:57 Bought Cover 114.53 10:08 My bad trade was that I was trying to time the overshoot. It's dangerous to counter trend trade. I learned something new about it today. I don't know...

-35 Real upset at what transpired. My main loss was during a sudden power outage at my house. By the time, I powered everything back up, I was down from my profits. Felt like I really didn't deserve this one. I'm really emotionally drained from this. This is the most trades I've done to...

+16 A whole lot of nothing today. I was pretty much watching the market all day. Couldn't pull the trigger. It is what it is. Sold Short 109.32 12:06 Bought Cover 109.29 12:06 SPY Bought 130.77 11:36 Sold 130.80 11:36 Bought 130.69 11:42 (300 qty) Sold 130.71...

Nothing really wrong with shorting. It's function is there to preserve the market. There's a lot of shell companies out there that lie to just get their share prices up. Those companies do not deserve to have high prices. If you are just a day trader, it doesn't matter since you are out by...

+13 One last one. Sold Short 111.34 14:07 Bought Cover 111.26 14:07

+22 Cutting it short so that I will end with a positive week. Getting out with a lot of small gains at a time. I don't care, don't want a losing week. I'm sure Lightspeed loves me with all the commissions I'm giving them on the tiny scalps. Sold Short 108.68 09:32 Bought 109.08...

What is Shopster's P&L first few months of trading in his life? You don't have to read this thread. This thread isn't designed to entertain you, it's for my own notes. If you want to something more exciting to do, go throw your big bucks at some stripper. All I care about right now is...

+6 Sold Short 109.34 14:11 Bought Cover 109.30 14:11 One last one I did as I came back. Don't think I passed my interview. Got too nervous as I fumbled my words a few times. I always think that it looks bad.

+6 Bought 109.38 10:08* Sold 109.40 10:09 *Only got a partial fill of 34 shares at 109.38 initially, then it pulled back. I was stuck a bit and waited till I got all 200. Unfortunately that made me wait so I bailed out early Bought 109.06 10:23 Sold 109.09 10:23...

+23 Was experimenting on doing higher volume today. SPY Bought 130.98 10:08* Sold Short 132.53 15:22 Sold 131.00 10:09 Bought Cover 132.47 15:22 Bought 132.66 15:42** Sold 132.68 15:43 Bought 131.23 11:46(400 qty) *** Sold 131.24 11:49 GS Sold...

-38 Tough day considering I was up early and could've stopped. I started trading other 100 level stocks. Couple bad trades where I doubled down on V was a bad deal. Bad Trades: V Sold Short 100.16 (200 qty) 11:33 Sold Short 100.41 (200 qty) 11:39 Bought Cover 100.46...

+4 SPY Sold Short 131.26 10:22 Bought Cover 131.23 10:24 Not much going on. Was hoping GS would keep going up big so that I could short but oh well. Don't think I'll be able to trade Monday. Have to go to do an event.