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    Trend Days

    AMAT, BRCM, AAPL, BGEN all below their all time high. Here is my logic. For short term buy only extremely high probability set ups. In short term trading why not buy only those who have recently surpassed or just near their all time high. The higher is the probability they will go up because...
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    Trend Days

    JEF, THO, SBUX, LM, ACMR, AMSG, EXPE, RATE, IACI, KRON, URBN, ORLY, EXPD is what I have on my list.
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    Is a mentor necessary to have success as a trader

    What you are desribing is different from someone saying give me 10000 USD and I will mentor you or my fees for mentoring are 10000 USD.
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    Is a mentor necessary to have success as a trader

    I have had lot of personal experience in my former career (senior management) in mentoring. I found good mentors early in my career and later mentored and continue to mentor some managers. Mentoring can help a lot. But the question is whether it is paid mentoring or free. I have seen many...
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    Daytrading Without Stops

    If you daytrade without stops soon you will stop daytrading.
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    Reading the archives...

    Its a package deal you get occasional good ideas with lots of noise, snake oil, spam, self promotion, sense of community and great soap opera from time to time( see the thread Dangerous and Sad situation). The amount of noise is also a function of market phase it is correlated to current...
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    What are you favorite books and/or websites on strategy trading?

    How I Made Two Million Dollars in the Stock Market Author: Nicolas Darvas Simple mechanical system with entry rules, stop loss strategy and exit told in a very simple easy to understand language.
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    Greenleaf's Journal

    Obviously you have a method which is working for you, so you may not want to change it. But here are some of my observations after watching your picks for sometime. Your volume criteria takes out some of the likely major movers. For your account size and holding period if you pick stock with...
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    Dell Refurbished

    I have two Dell refurbished computers and had no problem at all for last three years .
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    Greenleaf's Journal

    I am intrigued by your long and short selections. Out of your long GNSS, ALKS, GRP were in down trend. Hovering close to their 200 EMA. While some of your shorts look like just minor corrections in strong sector stocks. Some of them might be consolidating for move up and have not broken EMA...
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    Incorrect Entries?

    If you use a channel breakout system then stops like this are used. Where the stop is placed at the lower boundary of channel. Long term trend following system need to have wide stops to ensure you catch huge profit when you are right.
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    what f*ck just happened

    Heard it was solly who sent extra zero order
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    Most Active List

    http://www2.barchart.com/vleaders.asp
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    Other firm than IB?

    That rule is not IB rule, it is applicable everywhere unles you use margin.
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    Exiting Positions

    1 it might be because the market momentum has declined and breakouts from pullback do not go far. which is what happens during consolidation or prior to trend change. 2 take partial profit it is on half position or 1/3 rd and then on the next portion and let a small portion run. 3 select stock...
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    Windows XP message popups

    http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta try this
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    Panther Project Journal

    spam through journal
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    Stock/Market Selection

    Good point. My stock selection is strategy specific. 1 For trend trading I only trade companies which IPOed in the last ten years. And whose last five day trading volume is more than 30000 everyday. ( this list has around 700 stocks) 2 For value and options strategy DJ30 stocks 3 For swing...
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    Google tool bar beta

    Two new tools from google http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php Has some good features Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups. AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button. BlogThis: Create a weblog post pointing to the page you...
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    POLL: What kind of stops do you like?

    Stops based on S&R and MA
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