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+50 660 shares totally no discipline play today. turned all good trades into, as usual, disappointed results. I never know when should exit. Today, one second after I sold ABV, FDG, the price bounced huge. Missed all these bounce. Weekly Summary: Like the week before, up 4 days, down...

+240 1060 shares At 2.00pm ET, I placed limit orders to buy STTX, JRCC and MFLX, but none got filled, I did not chase the price. Missed huge bounce from the low also on others like DVN. Like yesterday, I took too small profits otherwise would be a huge winning day. Anyway, I am happy today.

+112 1460 shares Tried fixing yesterday's problem and but got too cautious. Entered at the right time, but exited too soon, missed huge bounce for almost all my good trades ASFI, RIGK, LOJN, etc. Here are my trade:

-74 1300 shares loss on POWI and LTM. need to control my emotion and not to over-trade on one side of market here are my trades today.

+46 870 shares losing long stocks, but made a few from selling short KBAY. I made a stupid mistake this moring pressing a wrong button "closing ALL" when I really wanted to just close one position. here are my trades today...

+39 590 shares missed nice trades long and short on a few good stocks. entered a few at the right time, but did not know what I was thinking at the time I exited and missed nice bounce on Long NTMD and short on ISSX. feeling really bad after that for the day. ok at least not lose today...

When is the next? Dow since 1960 -------------- date open close change percentage 19871019 394.50 360.20 -46.1000 -11.3463 19871026 312.80 298.90 -29.6000 -9.0107 19980831 1646.75 1499.25 -140.43 -8.5645 20000403 4494.89 4223.68 -349.15...

+168 1190 shares roller coaster day. up down up down and ended with some gain. Lessen of the day: Following my exiting rules to maximize gains! Worst trade of the day: bought CBST at 19.94 and sold at 19.44. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1...

+40.00 on 1370 shares Got troubles with N, NETL, NPO, LWR and CNVR all day long. Worst trade of the day: bought N at 45.10 and sold at 44.06. I am happy today to be able to make some (small) gain in such a terrible market. --------------------------------------------------------------------...

+150. on 870 shares. bad trades in the afternoon. buy oil in the morning and sell short SNDK in the afternoon. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 10:36:12 10/04/2005 BUY 80 shares of DNR at 48.39 2 10:53:35 10/04/2005 BUY 100...

Troubles continued to me. Still struggling. Missed good trades but hold losses. When can I become truely emotionless and stick to rules? Today's lessen: Don't break rules to enter and to exit! -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 10:57:43 10/03/2005...

Hi, Here is my trading summary for the month. It is interesting to see what is happening to a struggling day trader here: the problems, the huge efforts, and tiny gains, and long-term goals... Have a nice weekend. aqtrader The whole trading records attached. Summary of Sept...

Boring today. Missed selling short FORM, NIHD etc. Hit by THX. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 12:03:30 09/30/2005 BUY 60 shares of THX at 68.09 2 13:03:33 09/30/2005 BUY 100 shares of BBG at 36.73 3 13:19:23...

not a good day. missed great buy signals on DNEX, CPKI when they bottomed out. some gain from only selling short YHOO, NVT and MCHP. covered all short positions when DOW up from +25 to +71. Lessen of the day: Be patient but don't miss good trades in strategy. 4 short trades. 4 wins...

hurt by WSSI otherwise it was a good day. 10 trades. 6 wins and 4 loses. was down over $100 at a time, but ended with a small net gain. Lessen of the day: don't ignoring volume warnings. here are for the day: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1...

great thread to learn. I have been learning day trading for 2 years now. Still struggling. But think I have found my strategies. Not sure how to actually exploit from my winning strategies (at least by back-testing). So, only play small. A normal day today. Nothing exciting. Nothing...

Chart looks great for going long. If shorting as day trading, it really does not matter the price is year high or year low. The major factor to win is the intraday price/vol patterns. I think it is better not to hold short position VLO overnight. aqtrader

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This Sept looks doing great so far. In history, September looks terrible for all major indexes. Jan and Dec are usually great. To find out how bad or how good a month of year is, see the attached doc. Which month is the best/worst of the year for major indexes in history...

I do a lot of day trades. Though I did not make that much, I did some simulations over 10 to 20 years of data using a few thousands of stocks and using multiple trading strategies on both market directions. A well disciplined day trader can make average $2k per day assuming: 1. having trading...