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Also make sure your orders for buy or sell are limit, not market, outside regular trading hours. You are probably being blocked from placing a market order in the premarket, and for good reason. Next time try a limit order.

Holey Cow! The premarket kicked my @$$!!! Whew! Starting to recover. But I was resolved to just hang on. Except for FB, everything in the bag was in a very strong multi day trend and a couple stocks were a bit overextended. And now it's down again. I bet a lot of little guys get shook out this...

BTW do you have a position in that stock? Or just watching it?

The exchange closes at 1600, yes. However, stocks can still be traded outside the exchange, electronically, ending at 2000 and commencing at 0400 NY time. No it doesn't mean it will open at $12.55. It can gap up or down at the break between end of aftermarket and beginning of premarket trading...

Here's the culprit. Wasn't as bad as all that. The day chart looks good. This move is consistent with recent moves. The day trend still looks great. I am staying in unless unless. This stock is gonna make me money. and now it is after the postmarket session and there is where I stand. Wow...

What do you need help with, exactly? Who is your broker? What are you trading? What is your account size? What are you hoping to achieve in your trading? Are you day trading, or swing trading? How many winning trades, how many losing trades so far, and what is your average profit/loss? What do...

My P/L page at the closing bell. It's not over yet, either. NO day trades available today. I own 6 different stocks and I am stuck with them until morning, for better or worse. Alpaca starts the day at 0700 NY time so the figures are a bit different from how I would calculate them, in the...

That was ABIO. I don't think they are going bankrupt any time soon. When I sold for the last time that day, it still went up some more. OTOH I got left "holding the bag" on BYND several times. Some times you get the alligator. Sometimes the gator gets you. You bring your money to the table, you...

That's a good philosophy. But my most profitable trade was a company whose product I had never seen or heard of. My first trade ever I think I made like $1800 and all I knew was it was a drug company. Didn't even know the company name. Of course that was day/swing trading, not investing, and I...

Right on.

DARN. Gave up on KODK too early. Thass okay. Before the bell I bought TQQQ, STKL, and a gold mine, CDE. I got some more profit out of them and now I am up almost 2% for the day, and I expect STKL to gap up and make one more big push. TQQQ not sure about but I think it will gap down a little...

True, but if you are going to buy anyway, I think the up close view presented by the smaller candles gives a more accurate pinpoint entry in general. Of course it isn't perfect and just one guy placing a 10k order can have a trememdous effect on the short term picture when the float isn't very...

Thank you. Please just display my trophy in the ET clubhouse.

What they said. You can day trade with $3k but it would be severely limiting and limited. But you can do this. Scrape up another $1k. Fund TWO $2k accounts with different brokers. Now you got 6 day trades per sliding 5 day period. Just call it 6 day trades per week but it's actually in any...

Dagnabbit! I just violated at least two of my trading rules just now. Let's see... 1. Don't trade the news. Everybody else already did that. 2. When you quit for the day, stay quitted, at least until right before the closing bell. 3. Buy the dip. Buy the dip. Buy the dip. I just had to get...

I don't get it. Why post if you don't want to talk about your trades? Nobody cares about your totally unsubstantiated P/L. You haven't posted a single chart or a single trade or strategy. I could claim any P/L for any trade or day or week if I wanted. It's not real if it isn't backed up. How...

I looked at those prepackaged strategies and didn't see a real purpose for them. I would rather nack my own thing. And even with my own strats I don't necessarily follow them. I think my trading is more a set of tactical than strategic rules, TBH. Lately I haven't been trading the classic...

Woke up late again. I wasn't going to trade unless unless, because I thought I was out of day trades. I got looking at STKL which treated me right yesterday, and it was looking awful good. I checked my homemade API applet and low and behole, I actually had two day trades available. Bought 400...

Does it make a good quad shot cappuccino?

I think the idea of a profit target is actually kind of misunderstood. The profit target should be more of a profit expectation, not a cutoff. Something to compare to the risk. Still yeah the target is important but if a stock stubbornly insists on going higher than the target, who am I to...