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Thanks for your reply - have to admit as a noob it seems that any kind analysis is slow/distracting compared to instinctive responses - still gravitating back to the DOM/T&S and throwing quick trades close to the spread - presently able to glance out of the corner of my eye at BOOKMAP and see...

Thanks for the kind replies - been busy last couple days - gutted a couple old desktop PC's that were on the pile of rotting computers in the barn - swapped a couple power supplies - new motherboard/cpu - my son built a Linux server - I have a "new" 10 year old desktop that will drive 3 displays...

Thanks easymon1 - since I am just a tad on the dumb side I am always a bit late "getting my nose in trough" - guess I had to learn about losing some trades before I could get focused on building a winning strategy. Realized very early on that a predictive approach to trading was not for me...

Have posted a lot of really crazy stuff on this forum lately about "dancing with the devil" and such - please forgive me - want to say thanks to all the members of this wonderful forum for all your helpful replies. In turn, I hope this post is helpful. The noob adventure continues - in...

Hello again Ironchef! The market closed a few minutes ago - another day of experimentation - this attempt to scale up into heavier stocks and larger positions with AMD did not achieve a positive result today - not a catastrophic outcome - need further evaluation of choice of security/methology...

Getting into the 5th week of my trading "career" (hobby) - have been working on my chops - posted in earlier threads about accidentally finding a trading style - not knowing what it was I called it "dancing with the devil" - have since been told it is something of a tape reader scalping...

Don't forget the jelly jars and heavy equipment..!

Had a 35' double-ender sailboat sitting in a cradle in Ventura California for years in the '90's while working abroad - had a buyer and let her go - kept working abroad - met wife - had a family - "swallowed the anchor" as they say. Have great memories - racing catamarans at national level in...

A little off topic but years ago I had a sailing buddy named Phil - now departed - was a WWII merchant marine vet - he single-handed a beautiful Tahiti Ketch he built from scratch using rented molds - tied a bowline faster than you could blink - he was quite a guy. Once upon a time I dreamed of...

Thank you - your reply means so much to me! Had to run to the next room and show wife/kids - they have given me some strange looks lately because of my incessant rambling about "dancing with the market" - said to them "see...I am not nuts!"

I came to the ET Trading forum a few days ago - grasping for validation of my wacky trading style (tape reading?) - in spite of being a pathetic "noob", I received very kind and helpful replies to my "dancing with the devil" post. Please don't take this as a snub but I will be sailing "off the...

Thanks again to all the members who have posted these very kind replies. This thread is stale, but I would like to wrap it up with this epilogue. My first journey into the world of trading has taken me down a path that has shattered my beliefs - in a good way. Today I played very close to the...

Really appreciate all the great responses and support - was thinking I was goofy. Had a great opening today - trading (INO) - a really acitive un-shortable stock - spread was flying off the end of 100 line static DOM faster than I could reach for the "center" button - got some great moves...

**Have been using finviz to get a list and then looking through the intraday charts for the most/biggest movements with smooth/clean runs. signal = volatile - shortable - volume > 1 million - price > $7 **When stock goes sideways rotate through a half dozen or so recent favorites. **Last week...

Thanks - that is good question and used to be part of my intended course of learning/study - as well as the use of indicators and confirmation on entry. This is going to sound a little crazy - but now it's just a rhythm to me - I just watch the trades move up and down the DOM - it moves fast...

Thanks - have watched some of the SMB videos but could not really assimilate much on a "physical" level. My introduction to trading was completely different than what I envisioned - engineer working in analysis of wireless network performance data that is heavily based on charts - was thinking...

Please excuse my first post - hoping for your (kind) opinions/confirmation - don't have any friends that trade. Started trading 3 weeks ago - read about indicators, analysis, etc. - watched videos - paper traded for a day or two - started out live with just 10 shares of stock (NCLH). "Blue...