Watchlist for July 5, 2006

On Monday the indices floated higher on very little volume. The S&P and Dow broke above their 50-day moving averages. Given the importance of those moving averages I would have expected the indices to give those gains back. This morning’s weakness is being blamed on the North Korea missile situation but I think this pullback [...]

Poll: What are Impressive Percentage Returns from Trading?

As a follow-up to the previous post about percentage gains I made up the following poll: (Edit: to be clear, I’m not talking about annualized gains over multiple years. Just a one-time, one year return.) Second Edit: Apparently the highest level on the poll, 200% is just mediocre to some. My bad. Feel free to [...]

A Question About Percentage Returns

I answered this question earlier today and thought I’d expand on it on the site: Here are some questions about the “My Path to 100 R in Profits from Day Trading: April 26, 2006” overview: You said “It took too long to get to 100 R. I should be double that by now.” Q: Is [...]