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Some people make trading sound like it was so easy starting. LX21 has made great calls even on twitter seconds before they happened so he obviously knows how to trade. In his interviews he never spills too much information but he makes it sound like he started and was automatically successful...

It's far fetched but what I'm really trying to find is stocks that are being completely powered by Daytraders or new money on the day. Those prints that churn a stock in the direction of the overall market are computers, not active traders. An example could be a low float/low institutional...

This is actually the goal, I'm trying to avoid these stocks. It's an attempt to find stocks that aren't manipulated by fake volume and fake price action.

The majority of stocks are somehow tied to the market and even on high volume/volatility can churn around and follow the same moves that the overall market is making. Today being the fed minutes, you see 1000s of stocks shoot up and sell off after the news is released. What is the best way to...

I don't think thinkorswim has the option to see optionvolume from the stock itself, you have to individually check all of the options. The option screening is also not very good

All I can say is make sure your sim is realistic like the IB one, it gouges you on everything like the real market. Thinkorswim has a paper trader and it's definitely not the same

I've been trading for 3 years and you'd think by now I should be doing better than I did a year ago. I can consistently make money every week but I always feel like it's very hard earned/grindy and requires a lot of attention (two steps forward 1 step back). A couple days out of the month I'll...

I think it depends what you trade. I've heard trading penny stocks is impossible without it, I don't trade penny stocks though.

I noticed this yesterday, it's impossible to follow the live news. Too much going on at once to weed out anything important. Trade the news is also pretty bad.. It's a shame because it's basically free WSJ

Taking early profits to me is a horrible habit and is one of the main reasons I'm not a standout trader. I'll often get into a trade and if it doesn't start moving within the minute I'll Start dumping to reduce risk. The other habit is having a stock move 10 cents my way and dumping half my...

That chart reminds me of when i had first started trading

Obviously anything is possible but I thought these 2 were usually inverse, the dollars in a long term downtrend and the index is in a long term uptrend. To me the dollar looks bearish and the market could go either way, Maybe a slight bullish bias. That brings me to the other question, I thought...

I'm on 2 years and feel retarded for not being able to make anything serious.. But I'm also only trading with 100 share lots so it's my fault. My biggest problem is lack of movement, the only reason I make in demo is because of how often I scalp something that sets up and doesn't move and use...

Honestly everybody on this forum either has a make believe perfect strategy that makes them money in every market or makes it sound like trading is absolutely impossible and can't be done at all. I think a lot of people on this forum are sour because they never succeeded. I've heard stories of...

That's correct, 1 tick below the prior candle sometimes if it drops below that it's over. I'm honestly wondering if i'm entering too high though. even if the pattern I use has an edge. And I've gotten a lot more patient more recently. I've had stuff go up so much on me that I've just missed out...

I shouldn't have been so vague, I'm with IB, my account is 27000$. I trade 50-200 share lots to not have a massive loss and to make sure my strategy works live. My fees are around 1 dollar round trip and then I have a monthly fee of 20 dollars from data. I checked back with my most profitable...

After almost 2 years of back testing and coming up with a mechanical strategy I decided to go to live market. I've been trading with an average of 50-200 shares and made a small profit of 150 dollars for the month which came to 20 dollars after fees/data. I trade on 10M time frames so I don't...

My loses are totally under control I will never take a bad loss because of the amount of discipline I have. My problem is my profit taking strategy, I believe if you're using profit targets it's predicting. Even if they often get hit, but indicators don't help either. From all of the research...

Well my entry system is very good. I'm 100% sure it's a big edge and I've done backtesting using math, typically it plays out double my expectations and even more. I think it would be a lot easier trading with more shares because then i could take some off the table as I go which I've always...

I have 0 problems following my plan on the loss side because if I'm wrong the stock usually collapses. My biggest problem is being up and taking too small of gains just to see the stock blow past my expectations. Maybe just because I don't want to see it pull back and go negative on me. All I...