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Testing out my intraday strategies on test IB account. My Robinhood account I swing size. In order for me to do daytrading, I gotta be pretty sure it will work. The jury duty intraday trade was nice last week on my Robinhood account ,but I want to find a consistent methodology before I dive...

Jury Duty SUCKED! Was there all day. They didn't let us out until like 3:45PM. Waste of time. Tomorrow I gotta catch up on a lot of stuff for work! Who said I was young? I'm NOT young. I'm not old geezer either. I'm doing OK. Not that well. I'm just starting to build my account up. Don't want...

JesseJamesFinn, You seem like a decent fellow and good trader. Good words of advice and wisdom. I've been on/off of ET for years. I know who the legit and cool guys are and who are the screaming losers. The list of names you provided sound about right. Those guys are good guys. I'm not...

Thanks for the words of caution. I'm NOT going to open a SureTrade. They don't seem as big and stable as IB. I'm pretty sure I'll open a second IB account. I already have my IRA on IB. I'll open a taxable margin account on IB with probably at least $30K. But I'm waiting to make more money from...

Humor of the Day: 1) $20 downtown parking 2) $10.11 lunch at Jury Food Court 3) $2.92 for post-lunch snacks 4) $1 given to homeless #1 5) $1 given to homeless #2 6) Daytrading Profit $415.50 Knowing you can take money out of the market on any given day: Priceless!

My stop limit order got hit. The last 100 shares out at $29.715. So, in summary 1st 100 got out at $28.80. Profit: 28.80-28.47 = $33 2nd 100 got out at $30. Profit: $30-$28.47 = $153 3rd 100 got out at $29.52. Profit: $29.52 - $28.47 = $105 4th 100 got out at $29.715. Profit: $29.715- $28.47 =...

Only 100 shares left out of the 400. Got in $28.47 for 400 shares. I wanted to get in for 1000-2000 shares. But not enough capital since most of it is tied up in swing trades. HENCE, the start of this thread. 1st 100 got out at $28.80 2nd 100 got out at $30 (thank goodness that limit order...

This is freakin' unbelievable cool! I'm on Jury Duty today. While waiting at the court, I got out my laptop, turn on TC200 for intersting intraday scans. Tons of stuff going down. Unfortunately, I CAN NOT short on Robinhood yet. So I have to figure what to go long. Found a stock that's been...

JesseJamesFinn, I'm not sure if you have been following the thread, but it's curious that you keep on saying "If you can't make consistent money with 1x, 10x won't help you until you master 1x" The ENTIRE reason why this thread was started was because I have been consistently making money on my...

Again, thanks for the suggestions. TC2000 scans are not bad. Pretty decent. IB also has a scanner too. But as you found out, the problem with intraday scanner is that by the time you find something that is moving it might be late. But there are a few runners that continue to run for hours. But...

ScalperJoe, Thank you for your long detailed response and a reminder for me of how brutal the prop/arcade trading is/was. It's been a while since I was in that world. But your detailed laying the bare facts is a good reminder that it's a tough gig. Maverick has already convinced me to not...

DOH! Let's hope my china ETFs will be liquid..

haha. definitely different. What I meant is U.S. ETFs should NOT cowered to China irrational market policy. ETFs, bulls and bears, should be allowed to trade freely! let's see..

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/04/us-china-markets-shorting-idUSKCN0Q909E20150804 what?! Should i get out of my bear ETFs? Does this mean no more shorting of Chinese equities period? Or just intraday?

Interesting. What I meant to ask aren't the China bear ETFs somewhat OK? Since most ETFs don't necessarily short the underlying. They oftentimes use swaps, futures, options to achieve their leverage. But I heard rumblings about constraints on futures shorting too. haha. I just hope there will...

But China ETFs are U.S. based instruments. You don't think China can do anything to them?

As long as they allow ETFs trading.. :) It would be fck'n ridiculous if they mess with the ETF markets..

Here's my update. Robinhood, while great with zero comm and nice interface, is TOTALLY WORTHLESS for daytrading. It's like 18minutes after the open and it has yet to update the quotes from YESTERDAY! God forbid, some suckers are dumb enough to use market orders. I'm sure you can buy and sell...

hey guys, Yesterday I plan to try out my intraday strategy in the morning but got up too late. This morning I got up earlier but 30mins after the open. And my scanner(with custom criteria) signals some really good moves. Missed a bunch. Got in a couple of positions. One long. One short. On the...

Maverick, Thank you for your clarifications. Here's my plan starting tomorrow. Intraday Trading: ============ I will test our my intraday strategy on IB paper trading acct. Mind you, my daytrading experience has been net negative though there were periods of positive returns. I need to prove...