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+47 gross I'm shutting it down for the week. I'm green, so I'm happy.

+62 gross It was a pretty boring day, so I'm glad I got a little bit.

Studying for the 56 will not give you information that will make you a better trader or give you a much better understanding of the markets. There are some mildly interesting sections about how stocks and the markets work, but in no way will help you trade. There is a section about options, but...

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+9 gross I tried a few things, but nothing went for me, so I took break even on everything. I'm done since it is a Fed day. Yeah, I thought about limiting myself to 3 trades per day. I may do that at some point. I'm going to see how only taking pre-planned trades works out first...

+77 gross I'm calling it early, today. It was a good day. To help get a handle on my overtrading problem, I've decided that for the rest of this week I will only take trades that were planned the night before. This will keep me out of rash, spur of the moment trades.

I think I spent about 40-50 hours studying for the 56. I primarily used the Pass Perfect study material, but I skipped the Options section which is a fairly large section. If you already know how to calculate profit, loss, and break even points on options spreads then you don't need to study...

-81 gross That was a bad day. It seemed okay for a while and then things went sour.

-10 gross I'm calling it early today. It's Friday and I don't like this sloppy market action.

+53 gross It was a pretty boring day for me, but was able to get a little bit, so I'm happy.

+5 gross I probably lost a few dollars after commissions, but pretty much a break even day. I had a few small losers from chop and then one winner that covered them all. ofthomas, despite your presumptions, I do keep fairly extensive statistics on my trading. I keep track of things such...

+34 gross It's not much, but it feels good to not be red after six losing days in a row. I'm not feeling too down. I know this tough patch will pass and that I have a good run coming.

-36 gross No relief yet. I've got a good run coming, though.

-44 gross Wow. This is a bad run. I'm on my 5th losing day in a row. I'm taking tomorrow off from trading. I'll be back on Monday.

-71 gross I'm having a very painful start to the month.

-94 gross I came into today way too anxious to trade. I should have laid off for a while with the big gap, but just went for it. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and I was chopped up. August Review: August was a month that was not too dissimilar to July for me. It was full of small...

-8 gross Just one trade today. It did nothing. With the holiday weekend coming up, I'm done for the month.

-42 gross It was a tough day for me. I took a few small losses in choppy trade.

+32 gross It was a bit of a frustrating day as I was in a couple of things that just wouldn't move, but I made it out of a big gap day with a few bucks, so I'm good.

-35 gross I took some small losses and couldn't find anything that would go. I only traded the morning.