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Thanks for replying, expenses are for kids/houses/cars/other expenses, so this is what i meant, as fulltime trader, while my profits are more than my expenses, my trading account is growing quite slowly...

ok, u see your trading account going up nicely but only to see it drop -6k for monthly expense, how to deal with this mentally? 6k monthly is for my commitments of kids/house/cars/spending/etc How are you as fulltime traders deal with these kind of monthly "drawdowns"?? Or take on 2nd...

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V is really scary that day I saw it, droppin by the dollar Xmas coming, u can start a new thread next year?

-388 bought the stupid LVS and suffer the quick cut, so strong is the down trend, one of the worse i have ever encountered

Do u know that your thread, and also journal of Lescor, and Weinstein provide the best inspiration for us traders, though a pity that Nodoji had stopped hers, pls continue your great comeback, it really require lots of determination and patience to rebound from yor bidu loss, great job

Lost -$3100 due to #$$%$(!$#%# aapl, just keep going down after i bought :mad: And after i cut loss, it reverse back up @$#%$^%&*^&%^$#$@@@$# What the $#%%$$%$%$$%%$

I nearly got into this position, luckily it did rebound and I got out with a small loss, normally I will not get into this position, anyway, Friday aapl action did remind me of the May flash crash of aapl to the very low, wat happen if u have too big size and the drop is so fast, and you miss...

For daytrading, What if u bought size 2000 aapl and within seconds, it drop $4, and it is still dropping, then it stay at low price, will you hold for the rest of the day, hoping it will rebound or cut loss or keep holding overnight hoping next few days will rebound? This is just an example...

This is interesting, experienced my 1st loss in weeks: -$700 today, warning of bigger loss to come? I better watch my back from now... Need to stay humble....... But the main reason today for losing is breaking one of my rule: Should not trade after 1pm...Got whipsawed

Thanks for all the great stuff, i will read this thread over and over again

Have been trading for few years already, recent 2 months have been quite profitable for me in daytrading, but I seems not convinced, how many months/years of consistent big profit are needed to prove that you have succeeded in daytrading?pls comments

:eek: you are good! Do you have a journal?

Any idea where can I get intraday charts showing up to minutes? Currently only getting 60 days intraday chart, not sure where to get up to 1 year intraday chart?

0 +280 overtrade becomes 0, hated it

hi, not that i'm an expert, but it seems i went thru some of what you did, and also my sizing is smaller. - Be careful with avg down, it can kill you. Why are you avging down? i know you are trying to break even, and some time it did, sometime it did not. The tricky thing is as u avg down, u...

Even Robert Weinstein has not been posting for some time now, not even in his own journal thread, not sure wat's happening to the rest

Increase size will increase the anxiety and more unwilling to cut loss, but if i don't, how do i increase my profit? But on the other hand, increase size will also cause bigger losses... More over, it is dangerous in current volatile market So do i open many positions? but too many positions...

I have been day trading for 2 years, before that another few years of swing trading. Recently i have been losing small, but also winning small amount, account never increase much, not swinging so big amount, partly because i have been hit by sudden big unexpected loss, but did recover the...

People posting here keep changing, saw new poster everytime, are they sent by the broker, who rotate batch of people every now and then?