Recent content by Duffman316

i've been doing it as 2% of my trade size so far i think i need to do some research on the average fluctuations in stock price to determine what constitutes an unusual drop in stock price before i settle on a specific %

What is your tolerance for a drop in stock price in a single day? What's a good marker in terms of percentage of the stock price in your experience?

i'm currently using adx with moving averages in particular i was interested in whipsaws

I'd like to get feedback on my thinking here - I own shares that appear to be trending upward - this is a relatively short term trade (weeks-months) - I monitor the price every day - US jobless rate data comes out and the market takes a drop on opening - I'm assuming this is overreaction to an...

Looking for some sources on when technical indicators fail or which specific ones fail under what circumstances anyone know of any such sources?

Greetings Tomorton, I've placed a sell stop order just below the 20 day ema to cut losses, if it hits that it sells learned a long time ago not to put all my eggs in one basket and to stick to a few risk management rules as opposed to letting emotions rule my decisions :smart: this is the...

I just invested in a stock that was trending upwards (NASDAQ:ABCO) and it seems like it's turning the other way the moment after I invested in it :confused: Anyone else ever experience these moments? Looked good to me on macd, adx, and moving averages

Can anyone point out some trend indicators similar to ADX? Would like to know if there are more.

Trying to figure out a way to identify oscillating markets from trending ones while it is happening in time span of your choice (minutes, hours, days, weeks, etc). Certain I'm not the first to ask this question. Is there any particular indicator that helps identify this? Google just turned up...

doesn't ib have requirements that you must have done atleast 100 trades before creating an account?

they say they have a limited inventory of stocks available for shorting and i need to call in to find out as they can't email it. I work at 9 in the morning so I'm unable to call in on time to find out what's available, do some analysis, and decide what to short.

Has anyone else used Quest Trade and experienced difficulty when attempting to short stocks?

Status update~! So I got a job in July of 2010, scraped together some funds and started trading in February of 2011 with 10k at Quest Trade. After about 30 trades, I'm out about 6% of the money i started with:thumbsdow . A large chunk of this is due to the revolution that broke out in Libya on...

I've downloaded a few days worth of eod data for the nasdaq and i'm noticing the number of lines in the data files are not consistent, symbols appear one day, and don't appear the day prior to that. Anyone else notice the missing data?

stocks at first, once i get comfortable with that i'll take a look into options and futures