praetorian, I wish you much luck and success with your position, but I must say that it sounds to me like you're doing nothing more than...
Regarding stops, it depends upon whether you're watching the stock in real time or you enter a trade and leave it unattended. I personally...
I for one certainly won't be trading much of anything tomorrow, not so much because I'm worried about an out and out crash, but because everyone...
That's a pretty wide open question. First, this discussion assumes that you've become proficient at trading the long side of stocks (i.e. proper...
I agree with mgregor. I personally trade from home using a $50K account, and have done so for almost two years now. While I certainly had my...
steven9 is correct. Whatever money comes from the sale of an overnight position, whether it includes a profit, loss, or break even is unavailable...
Mgregor is pretty much correct regarding the daytrading rule. However, it should be pointed out that this trading call occurs in this situation...
mgregor, I wasn't necessarily advocating taking positions home overnight. In your CHKP example, you mentioned that the stock hit a low around...
Volunteer, There is a "Pending" page in the Trader Workstation that displays your open orders. So if you log off and log back on, your Pending...
Jeffrey, Regarding how much capital I allocate to a position, it varies, but often doesn't exceed 30% of my total buying power (i.e. $30,000)....
mgregor, The way I personally trade (which follows Tony's strategy) is that I have a price target at which point I sell half or part of my...
Don't go by the demo in terms of usefulness and stability. Since quotes and trades in the demo are "mock" so to speak, they're not reliable in...
I personally trade with a constant balance of $50,000. All profits I make every week are swept out of my account either as a check from my broker...
This can be interpreted in a couple ways. One is that there is rotation going on, and it pays to be short the index or stocks of the index that...
mgregor, Regarding brokers, I personally do use Interactive Brokers, and have had no real problems, at least no more often than I did with...
Regarding pre-market support/resistance breaches, it's a bit of a gray area, although I am inclined to consider the levels still valid if the...
mgregor, I didn't have time to check all of the charts for your stocks, but checking your analysis of CHKP looks good to me. Being that the...
mgregor, I use plain old fashioned chart patterns and trend lines to determine my swing trades. For instance, on JNPR which I have done the...
white17, You bring up a good point, namely the contrarian aspect of all of this. When the media and people in general talk about how terrible...
I agree that long term the US, and therefore the world economy is bleak. We've continued to overspend and not worry about "tomorrow" for way too...
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