Recent content by HappyRunner

Thanks, @1nvest I need to come back to your post tomorrow to properly digest as my brain is mush right now and I won't do it justice. I just went ahead, without taking on your wisdom for my latest picks, reverting back to my first methodology except that I have a much better grasp of resistance...

Thanks, @1nvest. Yes, I need to calm down. I got too good a result over the first few days and it's affected my expectations... I'm chopping and changing too much- it's swing trading not day trading.... What options do I have beyond a 20%/7% TA/SL? This was Friday... Stayed with: LLY (+0.01)...

Day 6 The day's trading isn't finished so I can't/won't do a write up until tomorrow but it's not been great. Started the day with my Halfords (HFD.L) stock triggering a stop loss. Great! I then sold 8 more stocks and bought 9 stocks all with forward momentum and disregarding their E/P ratio and...

😱 Rookie mistake!!!! I've been using the eToro performance charts thinking they were just line graphs of the candlestick charts. Today, I think they're not the same. Which is where I've been getting my weird stock picks from. Dang! That helps explain things...Right, I'm pretty much scraping back...

Wow! I'm off to look into positive momentum more before the markets open. 🙏

Thank you @1nvest. Okay- I've bookmarked TradingView. Thanks for that. I've picked out some possibles for tomorrow- trending upwards without resistance: I'll further filter them in the morning by sector and readjust my portfolio again if necessary. And I'll stop getting all wrapped up in...

Trading Day 5 AKA "The Apocalypse" Stock sold: SIMO (+$0.35) SNAP (+$0.93) SONY (+$0.58), XOM (-$0.44), PEAK (-$0.80), AVTR (-$0.82) Why? Felt that they had reached their resistance levels or were only going to fall further. Went for a general clean out of my positions. Except for AVTR which...

Whether it's purely financial or you've met your spouse through it, what has trading allowed you to buy or experience that your life without trading couldn't have?

Thank you @1nvest. You're not invading my journal at all. I really appreciate your opinions!

Thanks @1nvest I really appreciate you taking the time to explain things to me, especially with the chart you inserted for Exxon. I was looking at Peak's 1 week and 1 month charts- and thought it was a mellow rise from an undervalued company. Oh well. Live and learn - a stop/loss is...

Trading Day 4 Stock sold: SRNQ (+$3.94) Why? Reached +20.58% so closed manually. Stock bought: PEAK Why? Trending up and undervalued. Star trade- SRNQ- see above. Profit/loss- SNAP +6.67%, FSLY +4.98%, RWE.DE +4.88%, SIMO +4.15%, SONY +3.25%, VZ +1.85%, LDOS +1.52, MCD +1.36%, PEAK +0.06%...

Trading Day 3 Stock sold: CO.PA (+$2.16), HPQ (+$0.14) Why? HPQ was trading horizontal. CO.PA reached +21% so triggered take amount. Stock bought: SRNEQ, XOM Why? These were trending up after a fall. Star trade- CO.PA reached over 21% before I sold it. Profit/loss- FSLY +5.10%, SRNEQ+5%...

So, I was chomping at the bit today to get back to trading and hopefully reversing some of my first day poor decisions. Stock sold: ZM (+$0.1), CHTR (+$0.07), VOD.L(+$0.12) Why? Because they were moving horizontal and were first day poor choices. Stock bought: SNAP, VZ, SONY, RWE.DE, LDOS...

I'm just a newbie so I've been googling this and came up with the rule of taking profit at 20% up and placing a stop loss at 7%. That's what I've been doing but I've also realised that 20% is a heck of a rise to realise in practice... I believe its anything longer than a day trade but less than...

@timsk I'm keeping well away from CFDs at the moment, just going for up swings via regular shares. Given how small my deposit is compared to others, it would be too easy to blow up that way. I'll update today's trades once the nyse closes but as I write, all my shares are in green, even if it's...