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made just one trade today. seemed difficult to gauge any direction in this market til lunchtime. then we got a little move. i checked my week and realized that it was a positive week. also, last week was positive as well. going from losing almost everyday for my first two months to being positive two weeks in a row feels great.
the downside to all of this, is right as i am getting a hang of reading the markets and identifying the momo, i have to go travel for the next few months for work. i am a contract employee and my company calls when they need my help on a project that i always work. the good thing is, i will be earning money to make up for the losses in my account as well as putting some money in the bank so i don't have to work when i get done with the contract. i can just trade full time as i have been for the last 2 months.
i plan on wathcing the markets when i have a chance to keep up with the feel of the level 2 and time and sales but i don't plan on trading much. i might have a break from sept 20 til october 8th or so, so most likely i won't be posting until then.
Wow! that is a lot of information. I just constantly click through my position and watchlist . I only have 1 stock displayed at 1 time.
ReplyDeletelots of info, i know. at first all the alerts and charts were overwhelming, but now the majority of the time i just watch the 9 charts on the left to catch what is breaking out and my high/low ticker. i tried at the beginning to click through my different watchlists, but it seemed i was always missing the move. now, around 10 am i find 3 or 4 stocks that have gapped and i like their charts. then the other 6 charts on the left are the stocks that are the movers, rimm rig pot wlt whatever is moving these days. in the downtime, i still click through the watchlists just to see what is compelling. the reason there are so many alerts is i have each column very specific...i.e. alert for momo stocks breaking highs/lows, volume spike and breakout. then gapping up column breaking high/low, then gapping down column that shows breaking high/low. to me, what looks like a mess to some, is actually very organized alerts broken down by each watchlist. at some point, i would like to be able to trade by clicking through the watchlist. trader x does the same thing with realtick. i think he uses one screen and does everything from it.
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