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I had and have some weird computer problems. Meanwhile, I added some more stocks to my list and widened my buy and sell bands. Lo and behold, I get hammered two days in a row in COP duh. I think I will stick to some more slow pokes. PFE has been nice to me, but COP ate up some cumulative...

Yeah, I think when I have some hands on experience with how these stocks trade in that first 30 seconds I will have an idea what to accomplish with automating exits. One thing I notice is that looking for some sort of "average" move in terms of the number of cents a stock might move is...

I increased the "width" of my shorts and sells and added more stocks. I got filled on COP short and didn't take the fast profit, bailed for loss when it turned against me. Later this year I want to automate some fast profit taking limit orders, in the meantime I will just learn the manual way...

It seems to me from my limited experience that I have observed three things with the opening orders if I get filled. 1) I get filled very obviously with the "right side" and I have a nice little profit very very fast. 2) I get filled and it hovers around breakeven but I can squeak out a...

Thanks Don. I am curious how to account for the premarket trades. GE seemed to have a few trades at 28.15 around 9.11am. GE seems so friendly to me I get suspicious lol. I was thinking I try to err on the side of "by the book" calculations and then as I get a feel for what I can really know...

Short T at 30.55 covered at 30.31. No fills on GE PFE HD.

It appears PFE NYSE opening was 18.93 and T was 31.65. Still not positive about MB's fills.

I got nice trades in PFE and T, but I didn't adjust GE for the premarket range (on purpose just to be a stickler). So I was filled long at 28.60 and got hammered for what should've been a nice short trade for +.20. But, why I am just testing this with small size. Slow and steady. PFE and T...

I'm having an interesting experience with these opening orders, forgot to post I took a small loss with T the other day because it moved .03 against me lol, then shot up about .20. So far I like GE. Two things I am seeing, one is that I am trying to be very patient with this tactic, and I...

Got filled GE buy at 28.52, sold at 28.67 for +.15. Can someone let me know if 28.52 was the GE specialist opening? I sure can't tell from my platform lol. I don't even think at the end of the day the NYSE website has the specialist opening price, I've been checking that at night. Maybe this...

FWIW I did an opening order today. I am going to be tracking and trading just GE with small size. It seems I should use the Bright formula but then determine from the premarket some more info. I also am using only MB Trading and I am not positive I am getting the opening NYSE print. But, this is...

Cool, thanks for weighing in. I am still writing notes on all the ideas thrown out while there.

I went and I wanted to hear from anyone else here that did. I thought it was worth the bucks to see what is up over there, and look Don and Bob in the eyes, plus it was in Vegas. Don did ok with the opening orders and I saw some of the art to that which made me think it was for real. Ron...

Don can you talk a little about why you rolled back size and then your timing on increasing it next week?

Thanks for some of the replies. It is interesting to see a strategy being worked consistently thru ups and downs.

I am also wondering about how this could still be a viable strategy. I don't see any gains here except from Don.

Then, start masturbating, go pick your bum and your nose, but maybe not in that order....

I think Ameritrade gets payments for order flow, which might mean you can assume some bad fills at times since this is a conflict of interest I think and can't be in a traders best interest.

I know for sure I have reached an equity curve "pivot" when I start daydreaming a lot of stuff lol.

It appears this dude in NC he mortgaged his house to start daytrading? This is sad. I wonder where HPT got his money. Maybe that has something to do with these losses or, losing so much when you can't possibly have a clue.