After the 1st leg up do you sell or hold?

You don't understand English if you don't know what a leg of a move means. Stop trolling and keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything helpful to say. And do me a favor get lost and don't ever post on any of my threads ever again! Find something constructive to do with your time.

What a rude response designed to abort constructive discussion now and forever.
Who the heck do you think you are?
 
What a rude response designed to abort constructive discussion now and forever.
Who the heck do you think you are?
You must be lawrence-lugar's alter ego if you consider his rude posts constructive discussion. He trolls every single thread that I see including my own. Please invite him on your threads because he is not welcome to post on any of mine. I am a respectable person and I have zero tolerance for this nonsense that he posts.
 
You must be lawrence-lugar's alter ego if you consider his rude posts constructive discussion. He trolls every single thread that I see including my own. Please invite him on your threads because he is not welcome to post on any of mine. I am a respectable person and I have zero tolerance for this nonsense that he posts.
Ignore the parts you find rude. He's got some good points to add to keep bad ideas in check.
 
Ignore the parts you find rude.


This is the correct approach, rin4et, because it's the only one that works. :cool:

Lawrence sometimes speaks very plainly, sometimes even "outspokenly", but he often has a point to make, too (as indeed he did here).

Sure he was very direct and it was plain-speaking, but if that really felt like "trolling" to you, you're honestly going to have real problems in this forum.


Please invite him on your threads because he is not welcome to post on any of mine.


I'm saying this supportively and with helpful intentions only, but it isn't "yours": you don't own a thread, here, just because you started it.

You can see from this one exactly what I mean: you can't stop others from sometimes saying things you don't want to hear, as long as they're not insulting (which he wasn't). The moderators will very efficiently remove insults and name-calling, if you ask them to.

I'm not suggesting that that's either good or bad in itself, but it's undeniably "the way it is" and - as I discovered, myself, when I was new here - if you don't accommodate that and allow for it, and just ignore it, it's going to be tough. Good luck! ;)
 
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I'm glad Beerntrading's answer was the same as Bob's, because I agree so much with both of them. :cool:





I certainly agree with that, too (and it's only really a very polite way of saying what Lawrence said perhaps much less politely - I'm not sure I altogether "recognized" your terminology, either, to be honest :confused: ).
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When i dont know i may guess;may not help daytrading, because i measure weeks, much more than a day. But as far as taking profits early[leg] or late; i much prefer late, but i'm HYPERSENSITIVE+ prefer polite, +superTrends.

IF i had super limited funds, or it really, really changes LOL after i got in ; i could take profits on first leg/ early[part] of a trend, or cut a loss.BUT i also prefer profits over my own opinion so i dont daytrade/mini profits.:caution::cool:
 
I will admit that I find my day is better -- my world, brighter -- when I skip over LL's "posts".


Yes, I'm not going to argue with that. But he has no malice. It's just his style and people like me who dislike it really have to ignore it rather than complain openly about it, because that achieves nothing?
 
I will admit that I find my day is better -- my world, brighter -- when I skip over LL's "posts".
I keep him in context. Is his post worse than my worst trade of the quarter? Because I kept a level head after pissing away that much money.

Maybe he's often frustrated after bad trades--I'll give him at least that much benefit of the doubt.
 
I am having a dilemma on what to do after the 1st leg up. Do I sell or do I hold?
I used to sell and the stock would go up a 2nd leg and I would kick myself for not staying in the trade. After all don't they say "let your winners run".
So today I decided to do the reverse and hold after the 1st leg up. Instead it turned out there was no 2nd leg and the stock ended up drifting lower and I gave back part of my profits.
Please don't suggest scaling out, my position size is already quite small.
I am thinking the best solution would be to sell after the 1st leg up and then wait for confirmation of a 2nd move higher before jumping in.
Would love to hear from other day traders on how they handle this dilemma.

If i think there is gonna be another 'leg' up, I would BUY more. If not, then i would sell. I find it interesting you haven't considered this option.

Look, when you are right on something, you can't own enough (Soros/Druckenmiller). Presumably if you are wrong on something you want to own as little as possible.
 
What a rude response designed to abort constructive discussion now and forever.
Who the heck do you think you are?

I think what the OP was referring to, and what LL was asking about, was regarding a typical "N" formation. "Legs of a move" as it were. Similar to some of those "M" and "W" formations we see here and there.

...I am thinking the best solution would be to sell after the 1st leg up and then wait for confirmation of a 2nd move higher before jumping in...

Bingo.
 
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