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What is your favorite resource for getting stock ideas? Website? Software? A blend of several resources? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post. Thanks! :) Kris

I've learned to do more research to be sure I really want to hold the stocks I buy. If price drops as soon as I buy then I want to be sure I am able to hold for a long time for them to rise again. I'm trying to limit the number of bail outs I have to take. yes, I agree with the smaller size...

Markets like this in the long run can make you better trader or investor for the long run. How have you improved your skills to handle this shifting market?

One aspect of this I haven't seen news coverage or is the situation in which people went into the marker leveraged to begin with. For example, I have a home equity line or credit, and as long as the markets were daily bulls, I could be in it, but once it was obviously the down days were...

To say that although the person tried to make money from the dip, he/she ended up losing money. I'm sure many can relate to that!:(

If this administration was willing to let people die in post hurricane Katrina, then why would they help out a few Wall Street people losing their jobs?

When I reread that, it sounded condescending, so I thought I would post again and say it better.... While I initially thought I had nothing to contribute, I later realized that me being an old lady, there are some basics I picked up just reading about the market and playing a little over the...

Hi, I thought about your post and how initially I called myself a beginner too and thought that I really couldn't add more, but then I considered your age and thought that maybe I could add some basics that I've learned along the way. First, as one reply pointed out, you need an account...

Hi, I'm pretty new too, so I'm sure it's not my advice you want. Except, don't worry about the flamers. They are in every forum I've ever read. You will be flamed and it is perhaps like losing money while trading. Just happens. But in the case of flamers, don't waste time replying or...

This is one reason I'm trying my hand at trading. Research shows that learnng new skills helps an adult brain prevent memory loss diseases.

Hi, Then limit your trades to three a week for now. Not a bad idea if you're trying to think of new stratagies anyway. As long as your don't day trade 4 times in a five day period, you're fine. Good luck. K

I looked into that just the other day... The scary part is that no one is really sure. For me that say to be ready at any time for a similar event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) This link to to the causes of Black Monday.

Hi, I am new at trading too, and I can identify with experimenting with where to put stops. I too have put them too close only to have my stock sold and rise again. So then I let some ride, thinking that I needed to be patient and wait a few days. But, if this market is headed down hill, I...

Yep. Baltimore?Washington Maryland market is one that woudl generally be considered almost liquid real estate, except that the prices jumped up like the dot coms in 2000. Now, prices are down 10%ish, more in some cases. People maxed out with first and second mortgages and then when the...

To reply to myself, I clicked on News and saw that NFI had a reverse stock split, so that must explain it.

Hi, Will someone with a Trade King account please look at their chart for NFI and then look at a Yahoo chart for the same. This stock traded all last week for around $5 a share before a huge premarket jump, but when I look at the TK chart, it seems to show the stock as trading all week at...

Even as an X-er, I can see the need to diversify out of stocks a bit.

Hi, I'm wondering what kind of trailing stop everyone uses? At Thinkorswim, you enter the dollar amount, and at Trade King you can enter either dollar amounts or percentages, but not less than 2%. So, what companies offer anything different/better? And what kinds of trailing stops do you...

I agree with slow down. I used Zecco to play around a bit with a small amount of cash, but I saw that I was paying top dollar for stock. If you use them, use limit orders. I think TradeKing is much better and worth the commission. But if you want to trade just small amounts, you may be stuck...

I bought, and then sold. Honestly, I was afraid to anything good overnight, for fear it would drop. I'm not really a day trader, but who else is afraid of overnight?