Search results

Any clue why did IIF went down by >7% while IFN went up and indin market is doing OK.

I dont think stop limit would have helped either. Most of the times they simply shake the market 5% in both directions to make sure the shorts and longs flushed down the drain. Even though their primary target is directional day traders. Someone like me gets hit. I think only way to play...

Why do all these morons brag so much about trailing stops in all the columns they write? It seems completely useless. Just got stopped out on 5% trail on SGP. looks like MM. See the intraday graph. Got 0.25 % profit instead of 4% hold. Now I dont want to enter till there is a pull-back...

Please read this first http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051121/20051121005787.html?.v=1 So I held the stock with two different brokers. None sent prospectus in time. Also both were small IRA accounts fully invested so there was no way I could get additional money into the accounts to use offer...

I see. Yahoo news headline says "Policy-Makers Felt Need to Raise Rates" Which points in other direction. Thanks for input.

I was short on housing stocks and everything was going well and suddenly at 2 pm after fomc minutes market changed direction. Look at the volume starting at 2. I tried to figure out what was in the minutes that triggered it. I expect this kind of reaction on news. But I dont see any...

Thanks everyone for the words of wisdom and pointers. btw, check todays jubak's journal http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P133282.asp#msnhp Good to see that even pros are getting conned. He describes the same problem that I faced last few months.

No. I dont enter round numbers. I used to put it just below what i intend to put 9.99 Then I started going down and down and still it manages to hit that. Sometimes I have seen stocks coming down 5-10 % to take out my order and then go up where I knew they would eventually go. All the...

How come stock comes down just enough to take out my stop loss before going up ? :mad:

I am the guy who started this thread and was eagerly awaiting bidu to open. I expected it to open at something like 40-50 ... when I first noticed it it was already 90 .. And looking at that price I chickened out and didnt buy :D ... looking at all these posts I suppose most of you would...

Thanks for the replies ! Good to know that many of you have noticed the pattern. Also, instead of closing positions on wednessday I was thinking about checking future vs. fair value on ths and fri mornings and close all long positions if its bad. For eg. today future vs. fair value gave good...

I am plotting my P&L for two months now and noticed that it always goes down on thursday. I dont daytrade. i hold overnight positions. Till last week i chose to believe that its a coincidence. But it happend again today. I can see two ths were ruined by london bombings. I am...

didnt trade today at all :-( I am going to sue reuters !

Thanks. You are right its not trading premarket.

Anyone knows if it will trade in AM extended hours tomorrow morning? or will start at 9 AM ET ?

On the side note, how about slope of MA line? Slope can tell which one is rising faster. Eyeballing is not good at all to judge the slope. What looks steeper may not be. Currently I use RSI instead .. I dont know if its equivalent though. Is there an indicator for that and anyone uses that ?

Thanks for reassuarance. I ll go ahead with MBT.

Is it possible to transfer IRA accounts without affecting trading? Thanks !

Need some help making decision: I am thinking about transferring my Roth IRA to MBTrader. When I look at their commission (Plan A "per-share") it looks that I ll be saving a lot. And when that happens I get very paranoid and start looking if I am missing any fine print. Here's my...