Posted by 27 October 2010

Is Day Trading Dead?

I just read an interesting article which makes the case that day trading is dead. For well over a year (and probably back to when the housing bubble burst and the SEC banned short-selling, if not earlier) the market has felt *different* to me. I’m not sure exactly what has changed. Recently I’ve been telling [...]

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Posted by 14 September 2005

Day Trade Team’s Blog

Here’s a blog that I just discovered while playing around with Google’s new blog search tool: DaytradeTeam: Day Trading Tips. It just started in mid-August but there are a lot of good posts already. Some which caught my eye (I haven’t read them all yet): Avoid Risk in Day Trading Extended Hours Day Trading (Something [...]

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Posted by 20 August 2005

Thoughts on Day Trading

2011 Update: You may also be interested in my article, Tools of the Trade, detailing how I trade as well as my hardware and software setup. 2010 Update – I (Mike) now trade exclusively with MB Trading. I suggest using stock brokers comparison site StockBrokers.com to compare the best day trading brokers. I’ve been exclusively [...]

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Posted by 19 May 2005

Why I’m “In the Lab”

Yesterday I mentioned that I was trading in demo mode (basically hi tech paper trading). A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to shorten my time frame for trading. So I’ve been experimenting with more of a day trading style. I really like the idea of starting each day with, or near, a [...]

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Posted by 27 February 2004

IDSA is of the Chain… and I Missed It

I thought Chairman MaoXian was nuts jumping in IDSA this morning since it was already up around 500% this month. Silly me… now it’s up about 700% for the month. He caught a nice 10 point ride in that bad boy today. (You da man Chairman!) I’ll be kicking myself all weekend for not even [...]

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