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Re: surehands post# 17832

Friday, 02/02/2018 1:24:36 PM

Friday, February 02, 2018 1:24:36 PM

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Congrats again. I often get too focused on one ticker that I don't pay attention to others. I need to work on getting a platform set up that allows me to track stuff better. I use Etrade but have set up the think or swim paper trade platform and do like it's features, however my old laptop locks up when I try to run them both at the same time. Any suggestions are welcome. TIA

As for being new, I have been trading for several years very unsuccessfully by following the ihub boards and getting caught up in everyone's loading the boat and slapping the ask LOL

So about a year ago I started to look at TA (I admit it was Clay Trader who sparked the idea) but didn't want to spend the money on his courses and took the long way of studying and back testing different indicators until I was blue in the face.

And it wasn't until just recently that things started to come together to where now I have written down what my trading strategy is. Now trusting it and following it is my battle. LOL

My strategies now often require me to buy on the uptrend and I am so used to catching the falling knife and averaging down. Hard habbit to break for me.

My next area of curiosity deals with the pre and post market activity. I am looking at the option of waiting for the first 30 minutes after market opens to decide what the price action is doing, mainly concerned with trend trades vs a countertrend trade like UGAZ was from yesterday.

I am out of this trade at the moment, but am curious to see if waiting would have made much difference. Technically It hit my target premarket so I should not be in the trade any more especially since it is a counter trend trade IMHO


Hopefully some day this will all start to flow naturally and I will not have to annotate charts all day and night. LOL