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Longs are okay at the moment, everything is pretty bullish, but when it turns bearish you need the short side.
you only trade 1 day per week anyway, so you get 2 trades on that day and your out and all fine, 3rd trade and account gets frozen and margin goes away, madness.
I'd margin both your accounts, then you get 4 trades per week, long or short, run 2 trades on different accounts basically and with the 100% Margin it's like both your account are the size of just 1 account.
Yes your looking for 1, but it's nice to be able to exit at BE and try another and do that on the short side when required.
Stick to 1, 2 tops, you can make enough hopefully, your not over night holding so no gap risks so might aswell go all in, more positions would just ruin your focus.
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Thanks, that's good advice and it sits well with me. It's along the lines I was thinking anyway.
My picks so far for my trading games have almost all been successful. I'm looking forward to Friday when I can
again jump in for real and see what happens.
Last night I couldn't sleep and at 3 AM I was on the computer and found the news that led to my pick for the day,
which went rather well. I ended up picking RDC which charted for the day just how I like them, except for that big bump in pre-hours trading which reinforces my personal rule against buying when the market closes unless it's a limit order. That spike at the opening bell would have spelled disaster if buying with a market order. But this was all done in my game, not with real money. Still good practice.
I have not yet even learned where to go to do after hours trading. I'm sure the answer is just a Google search away.
Spreads are just silly for after hours trading just don't bother, my trading became useless when I was forced to hold over night and expose myself to Gap's and News, so stay with no over night holds if I was you.
Get account to 25K+ then 400% margin ( not over night ) and no issues ofcourse.
It's the hours of Prep every night / weekend, looking for the next likely candidates which killed me, these days with Forex / Index trading, I switch charts on, place a trade or 6 and switch off, much better life style, guess you only have 1 night of prep per week before your 1 day of trading, which helps.
Another day, another dry run/gaming day. My pick for the morning was NEWL which hit 125 percent gains around 3:15 PM and closed up 103 percent.
I made some (game) money. The game account is up 19.5 percent since I started it up about a week ago.
I have made some mistakes that reduced my yield but almost 20 percent in a week doesn't exactly suck.
I've (re)learned that the nerve-wracking thing about watching a live stock chart is that unlike yesterday's charts,
you can't point at it and say "I'd buy here and sell...HERE." I just have to go with a combination of knowledge
and instinct and luck to see whether or not a small gain becomes a big one or disappears or disappears and then
comes back in a big way later in the day.
One part I did see coming was that NEWL would correct HARD if it actually hit 5 bucks a share. Which it did, and
I predicted that it would correct down to close to 4 bucks a share so I sold short right off the 5 buck peak and cleaned up, closing the short at about 4.25 per share.
So far I've actually made most of my game account money on shorts.