Quote from baggerlord:
Well Jack, I guess since you are here you might as well ask the right questions and then answer them for us. You've managed to confuse me yet again. 
Sorry about my poor post.
It looks like most people want to just answer his question.
as you could see, I thought he wanted to get on with making money.
The topic of making money has a few questions, when answered, usually make people rich.
Put 2000 dollars towork for 8 stock trades (@ 10%each, hold for 6-8 days) Then you have 4000 dollars. And if you add to it some saved money for next 12 weeks you might be to 10,000. by the end of 16 trades (2 doublings)
Four quarters takes you through the following:
now 2000
1 Q 4,000
2 Q 10,000
3 Q 20,000
1year 40,000
The Q NOW is how does he learn to make money this way?
The best way is to do stock cycles cause they are slow steady things as you learn.
A second alternative is to learn to trade futures indexes.
The chart for futures is 50x the stock one above.
Learning is the question.
It is my belief that you make money from day 1 using a very low risk method that makes money every day.
The question for him is to choose which methods appeal to him and narrow the choice down to one.
After than he just goes at it.
You did not choose a method as yet. Nor did you collect a few to choose from.
If I were him and I wanted to rapidly get off the ground I would not have gone as slowly as I did. At the time I started, making 10% every 6 to 8 days surprised my broker. 1957 was different than today.
I track a set of stocks I do not trade. I can't trade low priced stocks because of the sheer volume relative to the day's volume. There aren't enough shares for my money.
But I do have two low price indicator stocks that move in opposite directions. I use them as weather vanes for the market and the contrarian to the market. They also compress time by a factor of 5. so they are lively indicators.
If i weren't constrained by the funds I have and I were like the thread originator, I would use these kinds of stocks.
One was up 4.37% and the other was down 5.75%. This kind of daily return changes the learning process quite a bit. This set of stocks turns a year into a quarter.
Thus, that is the second question. What stocks do you trade with for the method you choose?
If you want to make money faster than stocks make it, you turn to other markets. Stock markets are big and slow.
Futures indexes markets are small and slow. But they are leveraged so you can get the illusion of speed. It is not an illusion check book wise.
I read the threads and the posts. So do you. I do not start them; the best I could do is comment in some.
People starting out do not have all the baggage that loosers and marginal traders have. I see most people want to jump right into the trading and investing. I jumped in. I bought stocks for years. It was simple according to Magee 4th edition.
Choose a method. Choose the stocks (indexes) that fit the method.
The last question is: How do I always make money and keep making more and more?
You know my answer to that. Go plateau by plateau. Profits prove that you know each successive plateau by heart and then you are allowed to go on to the next.
I trade seamlessly all the time.
Hey. What does a question like: "Can I trade with 2000 dollars?" mean.
Lets say I dumped 100,000 shares of GZTC one day at 28 to 29 bucks each. Do I ask the question: can I trade with that money? Yes I ask and what is the answer? The answer happens to be no. I had created a problem riding a trend from 11 on up. I definitely needed to break that down into smaller piles. Ten piles would get me down to a quarter million each.
If people do not get the questions straight they aren't going anywhere.
Have you ever wondered why the mutual fund people screw it up all the time?
People, first of all, have to get the questions straight.
Here in this post I point out that the thread originator could run his money in stocks today (2003) at 4 to 5% a day, either way, every day. He needs to jack up his capital and put a method he can drive under it, load up with the right stuff (equites and/or indexes) and hit the road for a couple of years.
