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That's what I thought. Going with the DDR.

I'm shopping for a new computer to trade from and learning alot along the way. As far as desktop memory goes; I know the PC1066 RDRAM is better than the PC2700 DDRAM, but you can get 1024mb of DDRAM for the same price as 512mb RDRAM. I'm mostly using this for daytrading on two monitors. I know...

Don posted in Dec. 2002: "My "boot campers" are doing pretty well, and most have progressed to the 1000-2500 share level for the openings. " So many of his traders in training do trade 1,000 or more shares. Sorry, but I was there (at boot camp) and at most of the boot campers tried 1k...

$1.11 is all my profit added together, about .18 avg. on the five winners.

6 long, 1 short. Only one loser. +1.11

9 fills, 2 long, 7 short. 7 winners 2 losers (SBC, HD) +.59 After Tuesdays lousy open I was worried about the same thing happening today so I used a 2% envelope

1% envelope 13 fills , 8 short 5 longs. 9 losers, 4 winners Lost about 1.60. PG (long) just killed me. Dropped .90 right after the open but I hung on until it broke the lows and I ended up losing 1.25 on that stock alone:mad: Only 2 of my longs made me any money, but one of them, ATH...

4 fills (all long) all winners. I was concerened about this morning and took my profits pretty quick. I did OK, +.57, but my concerns lead me to get out of my positions earlier than I normally would have. Left about $2 on the table.

:mad: What really made me mad this morning is the longs I hung on to when the S&P's started going up went the wrong way. I had dumped almost all of my shorts and as the SPU's rallied KO, PG, DOW, and JNJ went south. What's up with that:confused:

Adjusted my envelope to 1.25 on the sell and 1.0 on the buy. I had 18 fills, 7 long 11 short. My screen was green for about 10 seconds and then it went red and never came back. Big losers were S, JNJ, JPM, PG, KO. 6 winners and 12 losers. Avg winner .29 Avg. loser .34 Once again...

What did you make 2 and 4 dollars on???

I used .85 on the buy and sell side. Had 19 fills ( too many) and was about split on longs and shorts. 11 losers and 8 winners. Avg winner +.25 Avg. loser +.27

3 fills, all long, MER, TXN, C. could've "sling shot" them all for .20 but I waited a while -.05 MER +.10 TXN +.30 C Used 1.4 on the sell and 1.5 on the buy side. Hey Tony, those are some ugly losses. I've completely given up on "waiting" for the come back. If I'm down .20-.25 I...

12 longs, 5 shorts. 12 winners, 6 losers. Avg winner .23 avg loser .13 Envelope was .85 buy and 1.25 sell.

Interesting that you mention the paring down of stocks. Over the weekend I did just that. I usually trade two baskets of opening orders. One is a proven basket and the other (1/2 as many shares) is where new stocks prove themselves before I increase their size. Over the weekend I...

How many stocks are you putting in? We all want 3 or 4 every day, and a few more sometimes, but if you're getting too many fills, it's obviously harder to manage. I am putting in 50 stocks. Today I used .85 on the sell side and 1.0 on the buy side (envelope). I seem to get at least one day a...

3 longs 12 shorts SDS and AIG gapped against me right away and I lost alot on them. Then with my back against the wall I covered my longs and crossed my fingers and hung on to most of my shorts. Ended up making $$ but I was down alot more than I made. In the end I didn't get out of...

Don, were you short IBM today? HD was a pretty good short, how did you lose money on that one?

IBM had negative news. I got filled on a short and then it went .25 against me, so I got out. I guess you know the stock better, I don't trust a stock with bad news that opens up and goes higher. It just doesn't make sense. My other loser was LOW I was up bout a dime and then he dropped his...

I took about a -.30 loss in BAC as well. BA and JNJ were my other big losers. Got 10 fills, five wins five losses- lost about $50 with commissions. It seems that unless you take a quick .15-.20 profit, it's hard to stay ahead of the game. If you wait for more that .20 you usually end up...