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I have Ameritrade too and have the same problem getting in. I can't really complain though, a few days ago I bought lots of AAPL July puts, made a killing and sold them earlier today before the site went down. I actually would like to now buy the July calls on anticipation of an oversold...

I went back about 3 or 4 months and pulled a handful of stocks I made money on, with their returns. These are just summaries, I have too many transactions to pull every trade and post all shares traded with entry and exit prices: CHNR 2.75% CLZR 13.64% DVW 5.62% IIP 95.15% MBAY 36.90%...

This is good advice, and believe it or not, I decided over the weekend this is what I am going to do (request a leave of absense). I don't think I will have any problem getting it either. I understand what you are saying about the psychological support a full time job brings. However at...

Well I have made money shorting stocks in a bull market then, so at least I have that experience. Does general market direction really even matter? In other words, it seems to me that as long as there are individual stocks moving either up or down there is money to be made no matter what the...

Well no, I don't trade OTC stocks as in pink sheets or BB stocks. I pretty much stick with NAS small and midcap (i.e. up to about 5 billion market cap). And 30% is a ballpark average. My gains on individual trades this year range from fractional to almost 100%. The gains are all over the...

Yes my story is true, for better or for worse :D As for the turning point, it's really hard to say what the change was. I think to a large degree it was due to taking as much emotion as possible out of my decisioning process and sticking to facts. The market doesn't care about my feelings...

I was just wondering here if anyone became a career trader more by accident than by plan? The reason I am asking is that I have been trading for about 6 years.... I started out as the result of a very bad mistake, now I would like to do it full time as a career. Here's my story for what it's...