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CAKE today was similar to mrvl yesterday. Gotta love gaps, especially out of 30min and daily bases.

I have come across a number of great posts and links on this thread, thanks everyone. I have been digging the Steenbarger stuff a lot. Anyone have his recent book?

I know what you mean about changing your plan and then of course you get right into perhaps market conditions that specifically are the worse for your "improved" tactics. I would suggest starting a new plan on a monday, after studying the weekend, and only paper trading for a day or so just...

That's interesting, because after I wrote that I kind of wondered to myself what I actually have improved on slowly lol, but, I now almost NEVER take trades that I can't at least prove where valid, even if perhaps more risky than I should be bothering with. Also when I do get so bad as to be...

For me Frosty your happy posts when things go well and your mad posts when you start making mistakes remind me of my own seesaw. I do think that both positive and negative emotions are two sides of the same coin. For me either extreme gets in the way. I have an issue now when I have an...

Yeah I agree, I struggle with the same kind of thing. One tactic I use is I have an excel sheet I print out with boxes where I write down my entry, my stop, and two price targets, one for a scalp and one based on larger time frames. I make checks if and when these things are hit. This at...

In my experience it really depends on whether the company, dsl or cable, has decent LOCAL service ie when there is a problem they send a truck right away. With my cable service, if there is an area outage they know about it from the cable modems in an area all going down. Also near me Verizon...

Can anyone recap when curbs have been used in the past? How often do they kick them in?

I met this guy once, who started daytrading only AMR in 2002 or something when it went up %400 in 6 months, I don't remember all the details anymore. Anyway, he had an account of about $60,000 and he was for some reason buying a dip in the last hour of trading, and he'd sell into a spike...

Not just browco, got same msg from MB Trading. But in general it means cash accounts and this rule was always there. Perhaps most brokers were letting this slide, I know Ameritrade used to when I was with that pos broker. Let me know if I am wrong.

One thing that has helped me was to stop thinking of the "except" as some sort of problem that was foreign to my trading activity, as in, if I just got rid of the "except" stuff then I would really be trading. Or the "except" stuff is not really trading it just gets in the way of what really...

I believe if I have the same person in mind, that from reading his journal this individual simply doesn't want the headcahe of the larger losses he would have to take. It seems he has a comfort zone and prefers to stay in it and work it consistently. It is a good question. I remember reading...

I have one suggestion. For the longest time I have been trading very small size and ranking my "results" only from statistics like win ratio, winning percentage and average winning risk reward. I have also been tallying my results with "units" a unit being the amount of risk I put on a...

http://www.trade-ideas.com/GettingStarted.html This is their freebie alerts. I actually use the gap one and find it very helpful.

Not for nothing but, this is my favorite ever thread lol.

Priceless. I too thought the list of items for sale on ebay was the final kicker in a very elaborate practical joke. Sadly I think it is for real.

Ripley I went short about where you did. I then got stopped out. Then I went long when it made the breakout around 2p. You have to think that your stops do you a favor, they get you flat quicky when you are wrong, so you can live to trade again, maybe this time with some new information. You...

I did something similar. After trying to incrementally increase my size for the last two months I realized that unless it was much larger it was like a game, not like am I making my bread and butter. So I decided for one week and one week only I would trade the way I have been planning on...

Yo forget those clowns, part 2 cmon!! It was interesting and I always like to hear peoples journeys, especially the messy ones. Not everyone is a preternatural trading genius, us mere mortals make a few mistakes here and there...

Isn't there a song that goes: ..... you gotta knoooooow when to fold them