tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7138812688978974457.post8095958007614179258..comments2023-09-21T06:00:23.283-04:00Comments on Dinosaur Trader: Experiment, Part 2Dinosaur Traderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675466667593721085noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7138812688978974457.post-71360075276634879902007-06-19T09:08:00.000-04:002007-06-19T09:08:00.000-04:00Tyro,Thanks for the hopeful words. I feel like thi...Tyro,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the hopeful words. I feel like this change has been coming, I mean, I started this blog because something had gone seriously wrong with my trading and I felt the only way to bring it back was to examine it.<BR/><BR/>I have received a lot of good advice and also good amounts of comraderie. Both are helpful and I'm hopeful that I'll get things straight again.<BR/><BR/>Dinosaur Traderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675466667593721085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7138812688978974457.post-44915787614393367352007-06-18T23:13:00.000-04:002007-06-18T23:13:00.000-04:00DT,Going long on gap ups? I remember a lot of Bri...DT,<BR/><BR/>Going long on gap ups? I remember a lot of Bright traders who made pretty decent coin taking the opposite side of gaps in the opening cross. I tried it for a while at the end of last year and, like you're seeing, I would have a few winners but the losers would devastate me. I couldn't understand how others made money so I talked to them and they were saying that the hybrid market Adrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08694840174170043470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7138812688978974457.post-58236362636873643022007-06-18T22:34:00.000-04:002007-06-18T22:34:00.000-04:00Wood,It's cool. I wouldn't post my dreadful number...Wood,<BR/><BR/>It's cool. I wouldn't post my dreadful numbers here if I didn't have thick skin.<BR/><BR/>As ironic as this may sound right now, my entire trading career was made between 9:30 and 10:30. I used to buy 20-30 positions at the open and be done at 10:30 normally with a couple grand in my pocket.<BR/><BR/>I did this consistently for many years... the open was always the most volatile Dinosaur Traderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675466667593721085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7138812688978974457.post-87341887550255130652007-06-18T22:07:00.000-04:002007-06-18T22:07:00.000-04:00Dino, what the heck are you doing buying the open?...Dino, what the heck are you doing buying the open? You, as a daytrader have an advantage over me in that you can wait until the exact optimum time to buy. I don't have the ability to sit and watch, and so I must take my entries when and where I can. Throwing a market order at the open just doesn't seem to make any sense for a daytrader.<BR/><BR/>Can I suggest that you look at maoXian's dummy Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03267918585202497489noreply@blogger.com