Grinding it out, day after day

Quote from lescor:

Really dull week, pretty dead after the open every day. I was out of the office after the first 60 to 90 minutes each day, just popping in now and then to see if anything was going on.

+10,400 on 356,000 shrs. Daily pl was +5, +4, +3, -2, +1. Two errors this week for $2,000 each time. Accidentally held some positions over the weekend, thought I had sent closing orders and I hadn't. I had longs and shorts and every one of them was closed out as a loser Monday morning. Then Thursday I went to penny an offer pre-market and accidentally hit the bid, shorting the stock $2 below where it was going to open. I haven't had to call to request a trade bust in so long I even forgot to do it until it was too late- by three minutes! At least the other side agreed to a price adjustment or it would have been twice as bad. Otherwise very uneventful trading, nothing really stands out.

Is the 10,400 gross or net? Regardless, not a bad "dull" week.
 
Quote from lescor:

I haven't had to call to request a trade bust in so long I even forgot to do it until it was too late- by three minutes!


What is the time limit (how many minutes) after the trade to request a bust?
 
Quote from quicktrader12:

What is the time limit (how many minutes) after the trade to request a bust?

It varies by exchange and there are different rules for pre-market, but in this case it was 30 minutes.
 
lescor $700 bucks on 356k shares? thats .002 a share after all fees.. i know echo's base is a min of .002 so you got to be adding liquidity 75% of the time. my commissions 1/2 yours and my net commish is much more than yours as i take a ton.
 
Quote from lescor:

My all in rate averages about .25. That is both Echo and IB combined, sec fees, ecn credits and rebates.
lescor. what precentage of you profits are opg orders? are you still doing a lot of them?
 
Quote from lescor:

I didn't go to college. I just know real basic stuff from reading, maybe one step beyond common sense. My systems aren't complicated, I believe in simple.

you are like Jesse Livermore....Your background is truly inspiring and should motivate every one else here...
 
Quote from Agassi:

you are like Jesse Livermore....Your background is truly inspiring and should motivate every one else here...

many highly successful people don't have a college or university degree.. they attended the "university of life" and graduated with great honors and lescor is one of them :)

when i was a trainee..so many traders with good degrees got kicked out because they can't trade-well and i told my-self I don't wanna get axed...
i must trade-well because in the trading world, the most important is "the real good-result not the paper-qualification.

lescor is truly inspiring .... :)
 
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