Part-time swing/position trader since 2020, review charts, read books, listen to podcasts & watch interviews on the best traders. Aspiring multi-millionaire.
@TheProfInvestor I’m on my sixth year doing this part time. I come home after a long day, eat, walk my dog, then jump back on the computer every day and throughout the weekend because I know one day all of this work will pay off. It’s so close I can taste it!
@stamatoudism@FranVezz I needed to read that after getting chopped up over the last few days. I’m still up a lot but seeing my accounts going down is painful. I’m falling back a little bit. Thanks!
To all the new and intermediate swing and position traders out there, my self included, when people with more years of trading experience tell you to sit tight and be patient, we should take heed. It’s days like today and Friday that can help you and I kill our accounts with a painful death by a thousand cuts, or, in many cases, several major cuts. Right now less is more, sitting on our hands, studying, and learning from our mistakes, are the best things we can do until a new trend is established.
@markminervini Smooth move. I should have been more defensive after Thursday’s action but I thought the day was pretty constructive. It appears I was wrong.
I was up around 90% and took an 11% hit today. I made a few mistakes that I will work on correcting. I’ve been taking partial profits along the way but now I feel like I should have done more. I wasn’t expecting what happened yesterday even though people were saying a pullback was coming. I got stopped out of some of my best stocks today $MU $SNDK. I hope we can get back above the 21 DMA next week…
@TedHZhang@Deepvue I just set up a dashboard in @Deepvue to keep track of market breadth, but this is much better. I know at @RichardMoglen has been doing a lot of free webinars, but I have not been able to watch all of them. Thanks a lot.
@NickSchmidt Those are the worst. I avoided the chop last year and was on standby, holding on to my gains from the first part of the year. I got chopped up in the prior sideways market and learned my lesson.
@TedHZhang I’m learning to cope with my daily bouts of FOMO in this market, seeing so many stocks breaking out without me. Lol. I have to reassure myself that I’m holding some winners too.
I’m in year six as well. We spawned in the COVID era. Congratulations on your success. I work full time so I feel like it’s taken longer and I also feel like I’m missing out on money while at work, but I’ve made so much progress in 2025-2026. I’m close to triple digit returns this year.