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Hi, I told my dad to fill out my taxes last year and declare market to market status which he did not do. Do I have any options now? What are the ramifications of not being mtm. My dad has no idea of what stocks I currently hold that he bought me over the past 20 years. What can I do about...

I know why that's the case with DYN. It is just untradable. For some maybe.... but I've financed this guys new summer home. I give up. Thank god they took pvn away from him. I'm looking to load 6-figs of that soon and I'm glad that I can do it under someone sane.

basically, don't trade this stock. This specialist has taken almost 50k from me this year. He's too good, and I've admitted defeat. There are easier stocks to trade out there.

I took a trial for this quarter. Don't know if i'll use it next quarter. It's pretty cheap though. I mean even if i get one good chart after say 2 years, I'll still make 5k on that chart and that will pay for a lifetime of it. So in that respect I guess it's worth it. I'm still waiting for that...

I recently finished the Grahm to buffett and beyond and found it to be a good read. I'm more interested though in looking for companies that are troubled, and hoping they can recover I am still quite new to all this, and not very successful. Glad i didn't bite the amcv. I would have been reamed...

I buy bottoms.... Very plain and simple. At first I would have trouble I wouldn't get the exact bottom... and I would be averaging down for 2-3 points til I finally got it. I would then sell the bounce and only break even.. or even loose. After about 6 months. I think I got pretty accurate, but...

I buy stuff that's down a lot, and hope it bounces a bit. I basically buy bottoms, and have gotten pretty good at it lately.

I personally love pennys. I would hate anything that takes away from my ability to become the inside market. I hate people leaning on me, but that's what a market is about.

Hi, I have the befsr81 model. I am having a major problem with packet loss and lags. We have 5 computers hooked up to it, and the people at cybertrader attribute my log offs and data loss to the router. Does anyone else think this is the case? If so, I am looking for other options that would be...

I generally wait til the previous day's low is taken out before I enter my longs now. I save 20c always, and get as much size as I want.

magma, i agree with you that it was maybe wrong to be that big, but i don't watch moving averages or anything else, I trade lots of ipos on the second day, look at ath as an example, as soon as it broke out, I got long for a quickie point.i figured it would be the same here. Guess not. No more...

I think my horror story from last week is why I no longer trade nasdaq. Look at ther. I bought anticipating the breakout. It traded over a half million shares that day, so I figured I could move 9k shares pretty easilly. Then boom, next day, the liquidity dries up but my stop isn't hit so I...

This is the pattern I've used after about a dozen loosing fed days, I haven't lost money on one now in like the last 4 fed days. I buy qqq and ge moo. I add more if the market drops. At some point there is a general fade up into the announcement. I then sell and reverse short on ge. I find that...

I am a bottom fisher. I look for capitulatory selling and buy into that on the day the selling happens. Since bottom picking is so difficult, I tend to just get a sense of where it will likely bottom, and I pyramid into the position as it drops. This gives me the advantage of buying on the bid...

i've made a half dozen or so scalps in this name during this selloff, and most of them have been between 10 and 70c gains, but I wouldn't overnight it if I could buy it with monopoly money. I have learned that irregularities just get worse, never better. It's best just to avoid this name. Chart...

I agree, it's contratrend, but don't forget that contratrend pullbacks are often the most exaggerated and violent moves in all trading. You want to be where the action is, and this is it.

It has nothing to really do with software. Once the ratio confirms the move, I look for the most opportune time to buy, and I just buy. I was watching the tape to see what the specialist was doing. It seemed like he was buying. The first day I bought I bought cause it looked to bottom, but I...

When I speak of a position, I actually consider it to be multiple positions. I had my core position which was 3k shares. That position was gonna get carried to zero if necessary. It was based on tape reading, and mainly the ratio being so close to completing a buy signal. The other position I...

I never used to do well on fridays, but then I discovered that the problem wasn't the market but my hangovers. Now I usually get up around 10 on fridays and just sit and do nothing til I'm sober enough. It has helped a lot. I don't know, today was one of my 5 best days, so no complaints here. I...

I sold all my twp today at around 14.8 avg for about a little more than 2 pts avg on that position. As you can see, it did continue lower, but once my ratio kicked in and said to buy, I took more lower. I am all out now. Dont forget that lower prices are not a bad thing, it just means more...