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I had a good day and so did the market :) BAL 100 100 47.1800 47.7800 0.00 60.00 0.00 0.00 60.00 DTO 100 100 49.5600 48.3600 0.00 -120.00 0.00 0.00 -120.00 ERX 100 0 47.4300 47.6600 48.00 23.00 -0.83 0.00 70.17 NIB 100 0 33.5125 34.0200 -3.00 50.75 -0.80 0.00 46.95...

Despite the "huge" loss in AMSC (they guided lower), it was a great day for me. I even made money buying gold that was down from yesterdays close but opened even lower. AMSC 1,000 0 2.7700 2.5400 -90.00 -230.00 -4.26 0.00 -324.26 BAL 100 100 47.1600 47.1800 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.00...

Another flattish day. I exited my bearish positions at the open and the market started falling. Better luck next time. Turning bullish tomorrow. AMSC 0 1,000 -- 2.7700 110.00 0.00 -4.20 0.00 105.80 BAL 0 100 -- 47.1600 -26.00 0.00 -0.72 0.00 -26.72 DTO 0 100 -- 49.0200...

Another flat day for me. Somehow, being bearish did not help much today. At least, XIV is always a safe bet, lol. BAL 100 0 46.8100 47.3500 -29.00 54.00 -0.83 0.00 24.17 DUST 100 100 28.9900 29.0100 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 DZZ 0 800 -- 4.0950 4.00 0.00 -2.96 0.00 1.04...

Not a bad day considering my multiple short positions. I should have avoided those perhaps the Friday after Thanksgiving. On Monday, the market should be retracing. BAL 100 100 47.3800 46.8100 0.00 -57.00 0.00 0.00 -57.00 CTCT 300 0 13.0000 12.6700 99.00 -99.00 -1.35 0.00 -1.35...

I compare my opening fill vs Yahoo Finance and I'd say on average IB comes real close. As long as it's a liquid market you are trading. Sometimes I get negative slippage, other times it's positives. With ETFs it's typically just a penny one way or the other. I use market orders with Smart...

How about http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=vxx&ql=1 (31.34) vs http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5Evxx-iv&ql=1 (31.15) Looks like real money ready to be picked up. (unless there is a reason for the divergence :)

Another "boring" day. Caught a nice rally in CTCT after an insider purchase. The same idea didn't work in EE though. BAL 100 100 47.4500 47.3800 0.00 -7.00 0.00 0.00 -7.00 CTCT 0 300 -- 13.0000 144.00 0.00 -1.26 0.00 142.74 EE 0 100 -- 30.5300 6.00 0.00 -0.77 0.00 5.23...

Nothing to write home about today. Not a good day but I've seen a lot worse. How come nobody wants to be long the long bond? I managed to buy BAL at 47.05, below the 47.13 daily low. I wish I could do that every time :) Most of my systems want to be short tomorrow. Hm. AGQ 100 0...

Looks like most folks are done for the year. Too bad, they are missing out on some great rallies like today's. My at-the-open timing was totally off but the overnight positions recovered nicely. AGQ 0 100 -- 53.0700 48.50 0.00 -1.41 0.00 47.09 CORN 100 0 46.1800 46.9600 -58.00...

That was a good bounce. A couple more like that and the drawdown is over. Or is that a lot to ask for? :) Stocks CORN 100 100 45.9300 46.1800 0.00 25.00 0.00 0.00 25.00 DGP 100 100 54.7400 54.6100 0.00 -13.00 0.00 0.00 -13.00 ERX 100 100 43.0000 43.5364 0.00 53.64 0.00...

More of the same crap today. Gold miners keep sinking. CORN 100 100 46.1400 45.9300 0.00 -21.00 0.00 0.00 -21.00 DGP 100 100 55.4600 54.7400 0.00 -72.00 0.00 0.00 -72.00 ERX 100 100 42.8068 43.0000 0.00 19.32 0.00 0.00 19.32 FAS 100 100 95.1600 95.7700 0.00 61.00...

First time posting here. I trade overnight. Terrible day today - that was one bad NUGgeT. At least I made 9 bucks in corn :) Symbol Prior Quantity Quantity Prior Price Price Transaction Prior Open Commissions Dividends Total Stocks CORN 100 100 46.0500 46.1400 0.00 9.00 0.00...

Dude, stop posting reports about your paper-trading exercise! At least, start trading with real money. It's a lot different. I still think you have no clue. What's your edge?

With some OTM calls, 3% could have easily been 30+%

Sorry I didn't get a sense that you know what you are doing. At least you are trading large-caps which should reduce the risk and let you last a bit longer. How did you do in August 2011?

If you do it manually, I recommend finding a few micro-caps that look "solid" to reduce the risk of a big loss. Basically, find something you wouldn't mind investing it and trade around your position without going short. I trade about 500 low-volume stocks but I upload my limit orders...

I am looking for EOD prices for LA gasoline as shown here: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_d.htm (I don't want NY spot gasoline - I can find that). The EIA data is 2 days late so I need a source of daily data. I've found LA gas on...

It's broken: http://wikiposit.org/w.pl?action=dl&dltypes=html%20table&sp=daily&uid=FUTURE.CTZ2012 scroll down. Open/volume/open interest are zero or close to zero. Lots of holes too.

One more thing. Sometimes market makers trade on behalf of a third party (a hedge fund, etc), accumulating or selling out of a big position. Again, there is 0 risk for them since it's not their position but it may look like they are buying/selling a lot of stock. Here is a book you might want...