Quote from jdkgroup:
Anek & other contributors,
I'm pretty new to ET, so I'm not 100% sure if I'm welcome to post on this thread..just let me know.
Here the scoop....Today was my first day trading a live account...I was actually paper trading when the Fed announcement came, and I saw the market falling, so I logged into IB & decided to try the real thing...
My strategy was loosely based on this thread in that I tried to go with the trend & all i watched was T&S, and a 1 min candle chart with a 8 & 21 EMA...
When the price rallied to the EMA I shorted, when It reversed at the bottom I rebought....I did this several times, but when i had a couple go against me, i increased the size on the next move..
Probably was much closer to gambling than trading, and i know i made several mistakes, but I fired off about 10 round turns, & was up pretty good for my first day..about 4%...yehaw!
Anyhow, i wanted to say thank you to everyone for taking the time to post the knowledge thats here....it really helps