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Darn. Tried to sell for a $105 profit and couldn't. I guess I lost track of my day trades and Alpaca is saving me from myself. That's okay. I think I am good with holding gush for a day or two.

+$362.50, 13.78% gain, $3k account is now up to $3636.94. If Alpaca had wide open after hours trading I could have sold for another $100, an hour ago. That's okay. So I'm up 21%, three weeks in. This is a crazy good market right now. Gonna be some sad new players when the other shoe drops...

Oh, it's not the size of the trade. And yeah, I meant the Micros. I just don't have time to learn enough to trade them competently and don't want to fund another account. My present brokerage doesn't offer futures trading. I checked. It looks like a good thing to trade for small traders, just...

Alpaca doesn't offer forex, options, or futures trading, apparently. Well, I am sticking with Alpaca for now. And after reading a couple of chapters, I don't think E-Mini trading is for me right now, but thanks for the suggestion.

Ah. I see. So that might work nicely with a trading bot. My brokerage is Alpaca and they are all about the API and rolling your own trading apps. I am not running my own code, not skilled enough at python yet. Using TradingView as an interface and it works pretty good, with some limitations like...

Yeah actually I have sort of moved beyond BB to something that is a little more refined and at the same time quick and intuitive. I still like having BB showing on my charts, though. Usually I keep it on EMA9 and I will occasionally add an EMA6 or EMA12 temporarily to look at where they cross...

Unlikely. In the current market I would say a $50k account could have a slim to fair but nowhere close to certain chance of doubling in a couple of months if it were traded very aggressively. Then you got a $100k account. Well now it is getting harder to put it all in trade. Maybe you double it...

I had to ditch the forum for a while. Too much negative vibe, it was interfering with my inner serenity. Too many experts who think they know all about me and that I shouldn't be here. After 3 weeks my $3k account has grown to $3275.70. Under current raging bull conditions that isn't saying...

Less help than you think. There is SO MUCH more. Whatever you do, spend some time, a LOT of time, studying, and practicing with a paper account before day or swing trading.

Buy and hold QQQ with half of your nest egg and don't worry if it tanks. It will go up in the long run. Don't touch it for at least the next 15 years. Add to it when you can, ESPECIALLY while you are young. And ESPECIALLY when the market is down. Like they said, buying a couple months ago would...

Not sure I understand your question. Sat through, as in buy and hold? No. It would have worked, but leveraged ETF's I don't like to hold overnight, normally. I would have maybe picked some biotechs or something to hold, if I was going to stay in a position for a while. If you mean would I have...

Actually I was trading quite actively until several months ago. Ask around. Trading the Q's will fit well into my daily routine. I can't be watching a half dozen charts and a watch list and tweaking a scanner all day or even all morning. Here I have just two instruments to keep an eye on. One...

I set up my indicators on tradingview. The two main ones are VWMA3 and VWMA6. Semitransparent infill below both, green under 3 and red under 6. Where they overlap is a blend, sort of olive color. When I am seeing green I want to be long. When I see red I want to be short or else out of it. Since...

I have been on the sidelines for a long time now. I watched a lot of great opportunities pass me by since the COVID19 crash. I have been watching the indexes and the leveraged index funds like TQQQ and SQQQ and I have decided to go back in with a small account. New wife gets all weepy when I...

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