Quote from scot.mcpherson:
If I were able to day trade, it would be a different story, I'd have been in both FAS and FAZ a few times already,
I have enough to do that, but I just don't have the personality to be in and out all day long.
Hell, I'm only putting in around $15k right now as my max bet, and that's enough. That's part of the problem I had with trying to do ES. I'm really a piker, and an ES contract is really worth about $45k, and every little swing had my nerves on edge. So I switched to ETF's - starting with UYG/SKF - and lowered my bets to $10k, then $12k, now $15k, and some day it'll go up to ..... who knows.
So instead of doing the in/out/reverse thing, I do like I've been explaining - wait for a trend, then get in, and hold for most of the day, or even overnight if it's up real nice.
Less stress/cigarette smoking that way, LOLZ...