The Day Shorters Room

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Well it sounds like your ahead anyways despite the high commissions of what you have termed "scalping". I tried that for a brief period and smiled for what I thought was a relatively easy way to trade instead of guessing but it is possible for a trend or pattern break and miss the trade sometimes I would imagine which would cause some heartache at least.

Well in my opinion there is nothing wrong with any style that works but it is nice of you not to make stocks slide too quick if you can avoid it by averaging down on large trades that tap into a sizeable amount of the daily volume.

Possibly an investment banking issue but are you aware of the methods for trading large volumes of a stock and avoid making the charts for these stocks less notchy. Well if there is a method somebody like CHICOS seems to be using it since 2000 since it is a relatively smooth curve. Could just be a coincidence but I tend to trust these curves more. Its probably just averaging up/down with smaller numbers of shares. Not sure its important really but it catches my eye in a big way versus large swings which to me says more risk.
It shouldnt matter if the fundamentals for revenue and eps are solid but it really does when you rank stocks based on stock curves. Does better (smoother) stock curves indicate better trading management?

As far as daytrading goes I understand that the long term stock curve is of little relavance and you tend to look for intraday volatility to catch the steps or jumps. Seems like patterns are hard to spot though but profitable I would imagine.