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Well it's pretty bad for me. Everything that worked perfectly during 2007, even during the meltdown on August-December, somehow stopped working on January and February. I'm now back to the drawing board. A little time off from the market wouldn't hurt :-)

What? No solar or Ag plays?

I was once wanted to work on these so called investment banks because I thought that this will be the sector that can profit on both the bull run and the bear run. How wrong am I... Most of this bank now facing the risk of solvency (even bankruptcy). But on Citi case, I believe we will see...

Google already closed above 710 (711 in fact). I believe that this stock will go higher (albeit bubble - I don't really care since I'm a very short-term trader). All in all, it depends on how the market condition will shape (and to be honest, it's not pretty)

nycderivtrader, keep it up! Just don't listen to those naysayers. Anyway, just stumbled on your journal and I'll keep an eye on it ;) It's been a rough week for me with a huge swings on my portfolio value. Still ended up in the green although I'd like to see me more disciplined to take a...

Is NOT having a computer a disadvantage to him? Does having a computer made you a better market participant than him? And what's wrong with looking at the stock price from a news paper if you're going aboard the stock for like 5-10 years? Different mindset culminates different attitude.

around 50% a year, that's a very doable goal (especially if you're a trader on a medium sized account). Best of luck to you!

I have to agree that the performance sucks, a lot (may I know how you got the numbers?) But for the books, I think it's a nice reading on how to avoid his same mistakes (most of them is emotion and psychology), go buy it if it comes out.

How the *bleep* is this company the next Google? It's basically just a site in which its revenue is displaying ads. This site is just the next myspace at best (although when they indeed listed, I might snatch the stock/options to make a quick profit from people who thinks that this is the...

It happens to me too buddie, the stock goes the same direction as my options position and the stock almost valued worthless (around 0.05-0.1). It's because the options expiry is too close to expiration and the time decay accelerate faster.

Dude, I think the doomsday of recession is upon us. SHORT SPY,QQQs, don't forget to short ALL the big caps because eventually they will go down too! Just wait for the pivot, I'm sure it will come... sooner or latter. Probably today, or tomorrow, but maybe in 3 months? Or 10 years? not really...

It's always refreshing to read the iPhone (and Apple) sceptics. I'm glad I didn't listen to you when buying the stock at $115. Now look where it is now. If the product is indeed a flop, then my trailing stop will trigger instantly. Big deal. My trade will still be a profit. We're here to make...

People are saying that this stock is due for some correction. I agree with them, but that doesn't mean you should sell now. Just ride the wave, make sure you put the trailing stop, and let your winners pile up your retirement fund :-)

Using Dell 22", best bang for the buck ;)

Any Windows-based trading software and install it on a mac either using Parallels or Crossover (currently using Amibroker that installs via crossover and gets the datafeed from TWS for Macintosh)

I'm very curious too! And on another mater, if the site try to defame IBKR (the stock that is), they have the right to do so, the stock tanked after IPO! (meaning we've seen an overpriced IPO which is actually not good for the company's image)

Well as a matter of fact I have. Beside that I just spot a "HolyGrail" -- the poster above me, the thing that never fails me on the stock market is support and resistance :)

My vote also goes to AVG 7.5 (the free edition). It's light weight and can do the job quite nicely. For heavy-weight (and paid), I'd go with Kaspersky. And as for the firewall, my router already has a hardware firewall but I also installed ZoneAlarm for each of every of my computer. It...

Are you looking for a data provider or a broker? I think those are a very different thing.

I usually always shoot for the 100% gain stocks (not 3200%) and it brought me 50% loss to my total equity last January. I've learned my lessons. I'm here for the long run so it's important to also calculate the risk (because if you do, the profit will eventually come anyway). Now I've made...