what the f.....TXN specialist held my cover short order for 3 minutes, then gapped it against me 65 cents and filled me at the high. a 75 cent...
got out waaaaaay too early. i cut my size back to just 200 from 400 after the debacle last week. of course, i knew it would happen, lose when...
here are the significant ones. 09:32:28 Bought 400 AOL 13.52 09:35:26 Sold 400 AOL 13.40 09:34:30 Bought 400 LLY 49.00 09:37:50 Sold...
ouch.....i'm speechless -43 -39 -27 -12 -12 -5 -2 +10 7 longs, 1 short. -$1.30. and with that, i'm negative with this strategy.
i'm very frustrated with my own poor trading. 1 winner 1 loser plus 2 scratch trades. on one of the scratches i oversold, so not only did i exit a...
avalanche, i used it today, and it worked well. this was my first day using a squawk box and i found the crowd noise to be helpful. every time the...
i got hurt in NKE on 24 cents in slippage on 3 of the 5 lots i traded. then i gave back profits in two. so i had two scratch trades and a loser....
that's funny, because TXN is the stock i was talking about! i was long, the offer spread up something like 60 cents higher. i immediatedly threw...
thanks stockman, that makes sense.
upset, nah i wasn't upset at in the least bit. :) sorry if it somehow came off that way. i knew you were right, i was just curious about why....
ok. why do you think, if you do, it is more likely that i'll get filled on a market order on the block print, but not a limit order?
i used to use NX exclusively, but in the last week or so, i'm starting to think EX orders are better in some cases. for example, say your long and...
3 of 6 --- +25, +22, -1, +3, -5. (take out another 3 cents for commissions) i blew one of these very badly, should've been a quarter point...
maybe i should rethink if this strategy is for me. i'll give it two months or so to decide. i don't think i can justify holding through a 30 cent...
here's an example from today. JPM - opened at 30.71, and i was filled long. post opening, it went 4500 @ 30.70 x 30.72 @ 62,900 offer...
-9, +14, -3, -3, -27. these include commissions, not a good morning -$115 on 500 shares a piece. my exits weren't the problem. sure they...
ahhhh....that's a great heads up lescor. i was well aware of the MOC imbalances related to window dressing and the rebalancing of the russell...
how did everybody do today? me, not so good, 1 win 4 losses (let profits slip away in 1), but i've been up 4 out of 6 days, so i'm not complaining.
quest was one of andersen's biggest clients, and like WCOM, went to KPMG. andersen billed Q $11.9 million versus $16.8 million for WCOM. i...
4 fills -- +70 cents. i had a major problem not being able to get out of my positions because i had my Order Entry set to default OPG (to make it...
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