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hi all I'm back again, since my last post in another thread (Seriously thinking turning Fulltime trader) dated 15/Feb till now, i'm able to generate 40% gain. But I'm still below 100k in capital. I'm wanted to move to full time trading, but still thinking whether should i wait to reach...

hi all I'm back again, since my last post till now, i'm able to generate 40% gain. But I'm still below 100k in capital. I'm wanted to move to full time trading, but still thinking whether should i wait to reach 100k in capital first, just to be safe...

Guess now the environment is best suited for shorting, but if do not have good experience with shorting, meaning stock used to bounce back at me when i short, so any advice now if i want to keep trading intraday? Lost another 2k recently by going long, losing streak start to appear...

ok, you have a set of strategy to carry out in your trading, but as you trade, you are expose to many different setup, everyday different environment, so how do you make sure that your strategy in your mindset is not corrupted by the everyday trading activities?

Been caught in today selloff, -2000, quite painful, ouch!

Heard that if u are successful trader, u will be so thrifty, because of your tight money management skill, somehow u also apply to your daily expenses, look at Buffet as example (though he's not trader) Even if u are consistent in producing your profit, but somehow u just worry about what...

just this month? how about previous months? some guys here can generate profit monthly but not me

Today experienced difficult time, toughest so far, and make stupid mistake like wanted to sell, don't know why press the wrong button becomes buy, first time make this mistake and will be the last of course. only net +50 :D

Thanks for your reply, so u never have a losing month for 6-7 years, that's solid! thanks for sharing, at least now i know someone did it for long period of time, not just 1 or 2 months profit

But if you look at P/L 2008, it seems achievable, some even wins thousands by each day

Just wondering how you guys manage to increase your size? say now I'm trading size 200 shares. I'm afraid if i increase to 300, somewhat may affect my trading psychologically, how do you overcome it such that bigger size still appears normal for you?

U r right that the rally can be amazing, but i'm also worry about it dropping, as they used to drop 4 to 5%

Today is my most scary experience in averaging into stock, it just keeps going down down down down down down down, till i reach a point where i use up my buying power!!! :eek: :( U can imagine the emotional thing going on in my head, I'm down with 2 weeks of my profit. Just praying that the...

Thanks for your reply, i switched to day trading from swing trading recently, and seems to work for me, that's why I'm wondering whether this is sustainable. Or I'm living in dreams. But the difference from swing trading is that day trading can be quite stressful, so stress that sometimes u...

I can see quite a number of positive replies, how long can one maintain this trend of winning every month, will there be a time of disaster?

hi, Do you think winning every month in doing intraday trading is achievable? Any experts in intraday trading can comment whether this year is especially favourable for intraday trading based on your experience?

Thanks naifwonder for your reply. Actually only my wife knows that I'm earning from trading, which is why she's quite supportive, the rest they just know that I'm trading, but somehow skeptical that I'll earn from stocks. My dad trades asia stocks, and he loses the hell lot from the recent...

I have tried swing trading for 3 years before, but the thing is that to leave the stock overnight sometimes can be good, sometimes can be bad, something i cannot control. I have tried intraday trading, it seems i'm getting consistent profits for 6 months. But intraday need focus always, 1...

I don't understand why people around me thinks trading is nonsense, a career with no future kind of thing, people around me means my family members, in-laws... And also recent incident of one of my kids fall down from chair, they blamed on me not looking after him, spent most of my time on...

Today does not look good for all stocks, early exit for the day