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+ $108 Day + $1276 Week Not much trading today, mostly studying action of FAS/FAZ and SPY.

Ben, it's such a joy to see you grow your account so quickly! Keep your risk management firm and you will do fine.

Made $127,876 in after hours trading. Blotter attached.

- $141 Good ideas today, poor timing. Didn’t grab HOTT at the opening run up, sadly. Scaled into a short position later @ 8.92. Shorted ILMN too early @ 33.78. My logic for the trade was that it was approaching overbought, yesterday it fell hard from above 34.00, so I would either...

- $141 Hesitation cost me good opportunities today, but I was pleased to have managed a trade well that ran against me.

Buying stocks prior to earnings is gambling. Follow the herd after earnings, IMHO. V fell a long way recently and has room to climb some more.

Thanks, Bos! I learned how to trade from Bob (aka 1R), so I owe all my profits to him (and all my losses to my dog, who sleeps all day). I'm still holding an unrealized loss on my unintentional CECO short, but Reuters issued a nasty underperform report yesterday and S&P just maintained a sell...

+ $730 Had an initial profit target on HOTT @ 8.32 but covered @ 8.42 for about a $400 gain when it appeared stalled and oversold. It did actually drop a bit below my initial target before bouncing. Patience, patience… Scaled into another HOTT short position @ 8.64. Could’ve scalped it...

+ $730 It was HOTT in Tucson today :D :D

+ $372 Covered IDCC overnight short @ 33.04, oversold, for a $60 gain, with only a bit more downside after that. Short IDCC @ 33.32, on pull back from overbought, covered @ 33.11, oversold, for a $105 gain, only .05 from the bottom of the move, so no complaints. Short IDCC @ 33.44, on...

+ $372 IDCC tops and bottoms :cool:

Ben, looks like the good news takes the day :) Now don't get too greedy and give up your profits; I've seen gaps fill pretty quick in the morning!

Ben, here is my input (always fun when there's nothing you can do now):p Bad News: The president and the general counsel (insiders) just sold off good chunks of shares last week in the 74-75 price range. Frequently this indicates a pending earnings miss or, at best, lukewarm earnings. Not...

Bob! Where were you today? I was worried Mickey Mouse ate you, or your brain turned to mush from waiting in lines and you were in your office staring at all those monitors trying to figure out what you are actually supposed to do there :p (Thanks to everyone for ongoing encouragement. I will...

Geez, yes I use Etrade for both equities and options and have attached a screen view of my watch list, which happens to be an Options Analysis watch list. That means if you add an option symbol it displays it right under the stock symbol and provides the "Greeks" on the option. The view I've...

+ $207 Added to my remainder shares of HOTT so I’d have an even lot after last week’s partial fill. Target @ 8.45 filled for a $135 gain. Short IDCC @ 33.16 when it pulled back from failure to make a new 52-week high. Added for average price of 33.30. Of course it rallied from there...

+ $207 I was a lazy trader today, putzing around with tax paperwork. I need to pick it up!

I've heard that paper trading is the only way to go. You can average down as much as you want and never use stops, avoiding that pesky problem of getting stopped out of a losing trade just before it moves in your favor. You can then take your paper profits, buy a paper airplane, and fly far, far...

NYOB, I agree with goldenarm. When I saw this: Shift D= Sell Limit (10 cents through market) Shift F = Buy Limit (10 cents through market) ET's resident Mom started worrying about you :D

Yes, but the human life span is generally limited to around 100 years :D :D :D