Looking for a free service where I can view past 1 minute charts for the purposes of backtesting. The best I have right now is Tradingview.com but the 1 minute charts only go back about 2 weeks. Any ideas?
I guess it's all relative. Low risk compared to trading gap ups in the first minute after open; a strategy favored by some people I know. I find reversals pretty predictable, and if I time them right they rarely run away in the opposite direction.
Found some cautionary tales from people who had, but that was in the early 2000s.
Months ago my girlfriend talked me into a 2 week south pacific cruise that's coming in September. Since then I've been laid off and decided to day trade full time. I love my girlfriend and so I'm choosing to look...
If my risk is $80 then one fully realized (2:1) trade gets me to my goal. That's not counting the cost of failed trades of course. I know it can be done.
Fun topic huh? :rolleyes:
So I'm a former IT guy who became enamored with stock trading back around Christmas. IT had become stagnant and unpleasant to me so I saw trading as my chance to take command of my own destiny and devote time to writing my series of fiction novels.
Unfortunately I got...
Getting a better sense of the day-trading world as I go. And it seems to me that I really need a live scanner to find opportunities. I've tried a few 15-minute-delayed scanners and they have a slight tendency to tell me about an opportunity after it's already run its course.
Mr. Charts...
Hello all. I first landed in this forum because of Mr. Charts' epic thread about making money day trading. Very informative. I've been soaking up every bit of knowledge and preparing to try it out.
Being Canadian though, I'm naturally more inclined to trade on my home stock exchange, the TSX...