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The book, "Low Stakes Power Trading" had some really cool strategies for making those kinds of nice gains without risking too much money. I'm new to options but I'm probably going to start paper trading them soon.

The solar sector has certainly been looking good lately and I like your choice of SOLR compared to a lot of others. Looking at its chart though, SOLR might face some significant resistance near 9.00 so you might want to consider scaling into your long-term position in chunks in case it either...

That's a very interesting article. At this point, I'm kind of unsure about AIG overall. Given its price action the last couple of weeks, it might be good to wait and see if it is able to hold above 37.50 or instead breaks down below 35.00 without major buying interest waiting down there.

I think I'll remain pretty bearish until we close above our June high for a few days.

StockVision is great for technical stock screening for swing trading (though doesn't contain screening for fundamentals).

You need to read the contracts of the individual firms you are considering in terms of how long the lock-up period is and how often they do payouts. A one-year lock-up would mean you would not be able to get your deposit back for 1 year.

Questrade doesn't open accounts for U.S. residents.

ZION was one of my favorite stocks to day trade from January-August 2009 (both long and short), but I stopped trading it when it became much less volatile intraday.

That was actually one of the main ones I had in mind. I watched their videos for a year when I first began, along with purchasing StockVision partly for the great chat room there. TodayTrader also has a lot of free content out there as well.

Oh yeah, good point.

It seems like a lot of these types of things have been failing recently. This might be a little better than the famed 'death cross' though.

I would definitely steer clear of paying a lot of money for trading education. There are tons of great free resources out there online and some great chat rooms and webinars you can get access to for just a little bit of money. Feel free to private message me.

I think volume has become somewhat overrated. A lot of people were fooled by the low-volume rallies we had earlier this year and missed some nice moves. With that said, however, good volume can be powerful confirmation for your trades and a sign of when it might be a good idea to load up with...

I would think all of that is priced into the stock already.

I forgot to add in my post that a useful short-term trading book to check out is The Market Maker's Edge by Josh Lukeman. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Jesse Livermore is also a classic that's a good read.

NFLX actually behaved pretty nicely around the pivot point levels today. It could be a nice one to watch tomorrow.

Yahoo Finance is a good place to start. If you click on "Major Holders" there it gives a stat for the % of shares held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners (e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=AAPL+Major+Holders).

You can definitely add multiple quote sources but I'm not sure if there's a way to automatically have it switch over during a lag. I normally just switch to my backup quote sources manually. If you already maintain a long-term investment account with someone like Fidelity, that can be a good...

That's great that you're starting so young. I wish I had. I think the best thing to do would be to watch over what experienced traders are doing and what setups they are trading. That's what helped me the most when I was starting out. You can find various trader chat rooms in google. My...

It explains why some prop firms may require a Series 7 from all their prop traders vs. none of them. The Series 7 requirement never made much sense to me in the basic prop trader context and seems like the result of rules that got over-inclusive. On the other hand, some traders consider...