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It seems like you are using your stops as your exits, i know when I say this that its tuff. Try to identify loosers early and close them sooner. After MCP failed at 59 then moved about 15 cents against, may be you should have closed or lightned your positions. Again a tuf argument.

WHY DID U not GO LONG after your short FAILED ???

Understand that you are a day trader and there fore do not concern your self with a behaviour of a stock more than couple of days. what I wanted to show you is that in different time frames FCX has shown different relative stregth or weakness. it was way strong in the last few weeks and there...

You need to understand why it was a good short. becaus there was weakness in yesterdays close and today we marginally gapped up ?? Also as soon as the bell rang pople sold futures and market closed the gap in few minutes !! Try to understand relative strenght. Look at the chart of FCX -...

Have you ever had ANY Epiphany regarding anything !!!! Like the first time you realized that Square root of 4 is 2 !!! And then after when ever you saw that Sqyare root of 4, you (without thinking) made it 2 and went ahead with solving your equation. :cool: what a weired example. hehhe But...

Most of them do that, I know tradestation and esignal are two of them

So you are in a hyper scalping, I am not sure if this is a profitable strategy for starters. If you use above rules for entry and stop, what do you use to exit a trade ??

OOps, 9 days of screen time in total..??? My appologies THEN. m sure you will need way more time on sim. Just rem. when you switch from paper to real, trade 1/5th if the size you were trading in SIM. Without going thru al the posts, I recommend Stocks only, do not mess with futures. also...

Have you tried tick charts ?? Also, throw in Hiekn-Ashi on one of the lower time frames and then try to look for strength/weakness

SWITCH to real monies. NOW. I know few will disagree with me. may be bite my head off but - profit per share is 0.08 ???? and you are scared in sim ??? take my advice. trade even smaller size. risk 40-50 bucks a trade thats all. trade very high volume, low volatile stocks. Study stocks...

Manual trading is like the king of trading styles; like hold'em NO LIMIT.

For new members, the posts some time take a day to get regular don't worry they will show up.

The fact that the guy asked this question in a public forum shows that he wants to REALLY find people in his condition and find out what happened to them who took a similar plunge. Or just enuf OKAYS for what he wants to do. Even though we all are giving him the million dollar advices, I dont...

Happy new yr to ya all..!!!

I am not sure, but laptops with VGA and HDMI usually throw same output on both connectors ??? Has any one ACTUALLY used them in a extended desktop format ???

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Thanks Man..!! Have a great New yrs all..!!

He was worth 100 mil when he died, Causes of his suicide are not known. his last letter just said - he cant take it any more and he loved his wife. His wife at the time --- her last 4 FOUR , husbands commited suicides. I GUESS HE DID NOT SEE THE TREND !!!!! :D

I understand what WHY you call me stupid. And trust me I do not feel bad. I WAS stupid. I did not realize that trading is a career and will require experience to be successful. I spent $200K in fees for Engineering and a MBA degree to only start a Career that payed $70K. This took my what about...

DUDE, I am and I WAS once in your situation. I did quit a $90K plus job after only few months of sim trading, only to FAIL (according to the SOCIETY) I lost about 10K in trading and 5 months of unemployment cost me 40K. In my case I took it well, I learned few great lessons and for the last 2...