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+$200 Traded MYGN and was entertained half the afternoon.

Paul, I use stochastics mainly as an entry signal and sometimes to guide my exits as well. You have to be careful not to depend on them exclusively, because other factors come into play that override them. The market direction is important. If using oversold stochs (below 20%) for a long entry...

Builder, I know how this happened. You were short and placed a hard stop to cover. When the Ask reached 24.14, your stop was triggered and became a market order. Market orders can have some slippage and that's why it was filled .02 cents less than your stop price. This is why I never place a...

(Bob, you can interject your two cents anytime.) Builder, PowerEtradePro has been very good with fills and executions, but I've been stopped out at the top or bottom of a move before a reversal and I think that just happens a lot, because traders tend to place stops in similar places such as...

+ $224 Had early limit order for MYGN @ 87.33, then it was moving close, so I moved my limit to @ 87.50, which was hit but only for a nanosecond, so no fill before it drops almost $1/share in 5 seconds. Then I stupidly thought it was too low to short. Short HOTT @ 9.73 overbought, covered...

+ $224 Bob, you are giving us traders a good name! Now book that trip to Belize! Hermit, I so feel your pain. I use limits to try to enter some shorts and miss fills by pennies before they drop like boulders. Then late in the day I use a market order to make sure I don't miss my entry this...

Yes, my diet is very similar to macrobiotic. Thanks everyone for your kind words!

No, that's not true. I think I miscommunicated what happened. With IB the stock was offered at a specific limit price. It was partially filled for half a cent less than the limit, then when moving the offer down to get the rest of the fill, it was also filled for also half cent less than...

I chose to take tamoxifen, which I'll be done with in about a year. Fortunately no side effects whatsoever except for ADD trading :eek:

When I have a serious setup, I stretch that horizontal pane into a much larger size.

BigHog posted this somewhere on ET; not sure if it's actually his own or not: Risk is relative to your experience. Being aggressive at or just before your signals is relative to your courage. Your courage is relative to your confidence. Your confidence comes from knowing all of the...

I agree. The ONLY difference between your daily profit and mine is the sheer lack of monitors with which I am forced to contend. I have to disagree here. A $600 chair expense can be recouped with a single solid trade, whereas the ongoing chiropractic and massage therapy expenses associated...

It's a lot more than your desktop that's slow, Bos. And if you'd quit turning your head, you might manage to see a profitable setup and actually trade it! (I think we need to open a separate thread in the Psychology forum to help polarity responders like us. It could be entitiled simply "Why...

Geez, thanks a lot for the kind words. I was scared to death after reading this because compliments have been known to reduce my profitability. But Boosh and I had a brief nasty exchange, setting things right again :p

Here's my trading station, which I posted yesterday on the trading station thread. The keyboard is an original IBM Model M born on August 21, 1986 and heavy as a watermelon :cool:

+ $364.50 My overnight IDCC short, drifted down this morning, then appeared to find support with large buying volume just under 32.70, where I covered around b/e, looking to short on next rally. Wait, that sounds exactly like yesterday's post. Will this be a déjà vu of yesterday? Yes it...

+ $364.50 Bos, your post is me exactly; we need a trader's 12-step program ("I am powerless over exits and my trades have become unmanageable.") Arjun, your post scared me; please elaborate more on this "hidden risk" :eek:

Is chat down? Getting the old errors again...

So what you're saying is, yelling "Die RIMM die!" isn't what causes the price on our short position to move lower???

Yeah? Well, maybe I'll just unsubscribe to your worthless POS thread! (OK, we should both be on the winning track again.)