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Actually I was watching AMZN after hours and did see it in the 77.00's briefly

I thought that about HOTT a very short time time ago when it broke through 10.00 a share. So far the madness indeed has continued, up nearly 40% from that 10.00 yesterday before pulling back to the less ridiculous 12.00's. I'm glad you made out on your AMZN trade in after hours, but let...

+ $20 LTM, RSH, and TOL were on my short list for the morning and Etrade upgraded their platform and I couldn’t log in. Tried loading old version, new version, nothing worked and they were overloaded with support calls and I had to wait for a call back, which came much later. I just kept...

+ $20 Just one actual trade. I'm evaluating various strategies. This week I paper traded several stocks by attempting to lose money doing the opposite of what seemed rational and have done extremely well. That tells me what I have to work on :D

My good friend Geez was kind enough to email me this pic he took of my new trading station. You see, the last time I posted a pic of my trading station, my kind friend Mr. Weinstein made it clear that if I were to stand even a fleeting chance of trading success, at least 8 monitors and a new...

That makes me think of a scary day back in December. I'd been trading stocks in 1000-share lots for the most part. I had 5 POT $55 Dec calls on from 12/4 and POT was still falling the next morning, so I was contemplating whether to put on some additional calls and I got an order ready. After a...

+ $75 So, I’m busy collating bills, dealing with tax stuff, transferring balances, etc, all these pre vacation tasks, while eyeing some charts in between. Saw AZO hitting the high ticker and bought May $165 puts @ 4.60. AZO falls nicely and at oversold I go to sell them for a very decent...

+ $75 Still rather busy with other tasks, only 1 trade today. Never trade while distracted, because you might accidentally type a "1" where a "10" was intended, or some other profit-sucking mistake. Yes, the "1" under quantity on my blotter was supposed to be a "10" and what a sad...

Mr D! I put on another hypothetical TIF long when it hit new highs about 80 times today and seemed like the absolute drop-dead short opportunity and I'm up over $2000 already!

LMFAO! Mr. D, what you're getting at is that my overwhelming urge to go long TIF each day when it hits the high ticker for the 138th time is actually quite rational, which explains why the price then moves up another 1.00+ a share. Would that be reasonable?

+ $331 Very little trading, and small size, still in vacation prep mode, so laying low for a while until I get back in mid May. 9:27 a.m.: Placed limit on HANS before the open @ 36.10 and got the fill @ 36.05 for $225 gain as it spiked down for a moment then rebounded just seconds later. I...

+ $331 Almost no trading, but green is good.

Big boys know something that's not in the standard news: APOL down over 4.00 in pre market

Top 3 Rules of Trading: 1. Cut losses quickly 2. Let profits run 3. If you neglect to honor Rule #1, and take big loss, immediately remove chart of loser from view

+ $160 Put in a limit order on HANS @ 36.10 pre-open, missed again by very little, it ran up hard, and I offered 37.50 for a much larger position, but it pulled back quickly from 37.36, and I didn’t chase. Moved my limit to 36.60 looking to exit on the pullback to oversold where it found...

Boosh, I pretty much took a break since then. Last week I realized unrealized losses that I was carrying for some time, and have done little significant trading since. I am in fact still trading very little until I feel confident again. I leave for vacation soon and vacation worked well for me...

+$160 Not much trading today.

-$1017.48 Day -$9647.48 Week +$10600 YTD SNDA puts expired yesterday. Last of my really bad trades? Let's hope so. Set back to an 18% gain from a 30% gain. Pounded head against the saguaros this evening, then felt much better. How can you stay sad in the Sonoran desert in springtime...

QT, that's because most of the ET-ers are guys, and ascending wedgies make guys nervous :eek:

Like the for-profit education companies that were recession-proof, steadily hitting new highs day after day, while the S&P tanked? Every bull is brought down at some point, and APOL, CECO, COC, ESI, STRA were no exception. Every stock has a serious resistance point and once people no...