Recent content by newbietrader66

hi, newbie question if you don't mind. Just started playing around with options. Using trade ideas to find "low of the day" alerts and "entering to sell" put options on high sentiment bullish stocks. (entering at their low points). i sold about 10 puts in 10 contract lots and collected...

for me managing risk means being very sure of the outcome before entering the trade. if you do limit orders prior to the open on stocks that have unusual very high positive premarket sentiment (based on news) and your lowball limit orders are down near yesterdays close, and you do not chase the...

all good advice, thx

thanks for that Dr. Toad, i'm choosing small cap stocks $5 and under as a rule. the (3) incremental limit buys are "fill or kill" and spaced so that at least one will fill completely. Even 10 points on 10k shares gives a quick $1000 during the initial runup then the hard stop is placed to lock...

hello, been paper trading with TC2000 for about 3 months now. lost about 20K (on paper) in the first 6 weeks. backtested lots of strategies tried to get a reliable system of finding direction (either up or down) at the open. i can now reliably find stocks that go up above the previous days'...

good morning. have started paper trading with the TC2000 software. 1. with regard to entering trades (momentum type intraday trades, stocks) i see i can get filled fairly fast by entering as a "market" buy, but i see from slippage many times i am overpaying a bit. A limited add doesn't get me...

still in hypothetical stage at the moment, thx

hello, just starting to study basic day trading and will ask a question that (as of yet) I cannot find a good answer for. And i will admit that i'm completely and totally green in this. i think my focus would be on day trading only (equities) during the mornings with a starting brokerage acct...