I'm so far behind in my trading account. I think I will never see daylight. I used to invest/trade
You asked me to say a bit about myself and my trading history. I was born in 1934. I went to law school, then traveled abroad for a year, and became a mutual fund salesperson. I realized that the commission's 8 up half of a client's first year's deposits and the client would probably spend half a lifetime trying to make them back. I quit doing this early on but became interested in the stock market and business. I hated practicing law so went to business school. I made my first stock purchase of Control Data at 50, rode it up to 75, and back to 55 before getting out. I was waiting for a short-term gain to turn into a long-term gain. It almost became a short-term loss. Hanging on too long and selling too soon have been the twin banes of my investment career.
I went to business school, majored in finance, and became a bureaucrat living overseas. I started investing seriously in the stock market. I did quite well, by combining fundamental and technical analysis. But that was long before computers and I did it overseas using old – month-old – data from a printed chart book. I seem to be lost in this computer age and haven't developed the skills I need to make money.
I came across a presentation by John Carter touting his "Squeeze Indicator" I thought I'd like to try the free indicator for ThinkorSwim. He made it sound as though it was readily available on Think or Swim, already installed, and one could bring it up with the click of a mouse. I can't do it, I can't even find it. I joined this group in hopes that someone might first tell me how to access the squeeze program then my greed took over and now I have the hopes that someone out there has some keys to helping me understand how to make some money in this market. For me, the market has changed, and so too must my approaches. To begin with. Commissions have gone down from an appreciable chunk of any investment to nothing. This makes day trading and swing trading much more profitable. I have yet to learn that in my bones, well all things in good time. Hanging on to a stock that has turned has been an error of mine since the very first stock I bought. Writing this to you created a major learning in that last sentence. Thank you already. I will be grateful for your help. Can anybody give me simple tips for morons, instructions on Widows what to look for, and how to find it?
Perhaps I'm lucky to have had trouble for it was in search of a solution to my problems with the squeeze indicator that led me to this website.
New free member, Ault
You asked me to say a bit about myself and my trading history. I was born in 1934. I went to law school, then traveled abroad for a year, and became a mutual fund salesperson. I realized that the commission's 8 up half of a client's first year's deposits and the client would probably spend half a lifetime trying to make them back. I quit doing this early on but became interested in the stock market and business. I hated practicing law so went to business school. I made my first stock purchase of Control Data at 50, rode it up to 75, and back to 55 before getting out. I was waiting for a short-term gain to turn into a long-term gain. It almost became a short-term loss. Hanging on too long and selling too soon have been the twin banes of my investment career.
I went to business school, majored in finance, and became a bureaucrat living overseas. I started investing seriously in the stock market. I did quite well, by combining fundamental and technical analysis. But that was long before computers and I did it overseas using old – month-old – data from a printed chart book. I seem to be lost in this computer age and haven't developed the skills I need to make money.
I came across a presentation by John Carter touting his "Squeeze Indicator" I thought I'd like to try the free indicator for ThinkorSwim. He made it sound as though it was readily available on Think or Swim, already installed, and one could bring it up with the click of a mouse. I can't do it, I can't even find it. I joined this group in hopes that someone might first tell me how to access the squeeze program then my greed took over and now I have the hopes that someone out there has some keys to helping me understand how to make some money in this market. For me, the market has changed, and so too must my approaches. To begin with. Commissions have gone down from an appreciable chunk of any investment to nothing. This makes day trading and swing trading much more profitable. I have yet to learn that in my bones, well all things in good time. Hanging on to a stock that has turned has been an error of mine since the very first stock I bought. Writing this to you created a major learning in that last sentence. Thank you already. I will be grateful for your help. Can anybody give me simple tips for morons, instructions on Widows what to look for, and how to find it?
Perhaps I'm lucky to have had trouble for it was in search of a solution to my problems with the squeeze indicator that led me to this website.
New free member, Ault
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