A 70k bet that I can't make a 50% gain in 2009

Quote from NoDoji:

Or in a rare moment of daring you put on 3 trades at once and before you can enter stops/targets, your platform simply vanishes from the screen as if it never existed...OK I don't feel individually jinxed now.

Call me paranoid but I always enter a trade with a bracket order. It can be changed as you manage the trade but at least you have the order on the brokers server if something goes wrong.
 
Quote from deaddog:

Call me paranoid but I always enter a trade with a bracket order. It can be changed as you manage the trade but at least you have the order on the brokers server if something goes wrong.

agree 100% DDog
that's why having a good broker(one with bracket orders, among other things) is essential to someone looking to do this for a living.
my buddy got me good when he told me I was going to use scottrade for this adventure.
 
Quote from geez:

02/13/09:

13:44 600 SPY BUY 83.45
STOP 83.15
TGT 84.05


15:12 600 SPY EXIT 83.15
P/L -214.02

was .04 from target, but since it was the last trade of the week I let it go all the way to the stop instead of b/e stop...bad geez.bad!.......
 
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