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The main reason for losses for novice traders is risk management techniques, or lack of them. Check out how these guys do their risk management for real life. The portfolio seems to be going well (stragtegy not day trading, but principle the same). EarningsTrading.com | Running Portfolio...

There is a great free company which offers financial information for free for all US companies all in a nice spreadsheet format. http://goo.gl/7NVRm

Google spreadsheet is better as it will update live as well.

Very few people make any gains, let alone large ones, even though their posts on the forum may have you believe otherwise...Anyone who is making huge gains certainly wont be wasting time giving advice of posting on this forum...judge for yourself.

You need to understand accounting first if you are doing fundamental analysis. Start with a simple company like CROX or something.

Ok the first 4 is fine.. but a tax wrapper for £1000 is a little over the top !

DTA is an asset due to historic losses incurred for which tax relief cannot be claimed then but would have been claimed in the future. So losses are bought forwards. The deferred tax asset represents the future reduction of the tax bill that will be used to reduce the tax paid. Writing off a...

If you have money then you can do it. There are probably some good trading courses that you can use. I would take care and understand first the different types and styles of trading, before you start to burn your own cash. Understand what risk is.

# Are you looking for specific companys ? I know a few analyst who do some work for funds and private equity investment. I can put you in touch if you want, please pm email though. They won't do specific company's for you but you may be able to get access to the company's that they report on...

Hi All Not been here for a while.. Does anyone know a decent CFD provider for US equities. I need a large range of markets including some of the smaller US ones. Unfortunately CMC though with good rates, offers no more than 700 shares + their platform seems overly complex with all this...

Its inaccurate - I have been checking - things are not updated. It is there to fool the public.

Hi Does anyone have access to Bloomberg or Reuters ? I need analyst expectations for various companies. In return I will either pay some cash OR provide you the outcome of my analysis which you can trade. My win / loss ratio is around 70%. I need this for both UK and US companies. Thanks

Count yourself lucky!! If it wasn't a spike and a permanent move and they allowed you to go over your stop you could have been looking at $200k down not $20k down.

Might be tricky on a stop unless the stop was 60% away from the price at 14:40. Im pretty sure a lot of people will have lost a lot of money.

I trust a lot of people with stops would have lost their cash, and those without adequate capital would have been closed out at all time lows. Just shows how dangerous this market is if you are not careful.