@Turbobob Hi. Congrats on your success. I noticed you trade higher priced stocks. I am finding that the higher priced stocks more often follow half and whole dollar marks. Do you find that to be true? Would you mind sharing your scanner parameters? Thanks - CJ

Today was a perfect example of waiting for the perfect setup. HTGM was a relatively low float former spiker that had already spiked into resistance the night before on no news and was now making lower highs. It also had gone from 3 to 4.4 so had a long way to come down. I found it the night before, was ready for it and it had many shares to short. The next morning it was gapping down from the high. This would be a perfect opportunity to try going big. But even if not, it was still a PERFECT setup. One of those 10/10 they talk about. I had a plan to short if it panicked or if it spiked. My problem was that I did not identify this as a perfect setup. I entered my short position but I still had my eye on other plays when I should have just been watching this one play. Part of the reason was that I was not confident about my assessment. But even then, when it was doing what I thought, I should have still had my eye 100% on this play and no others. I could have avoided my fat finger mistake that closed me out too early or even got back in. But I was busy entering another play and HTGM had fallen even more making my risk reward worse. Furthermore I entered CAMT short which it wasn't a good short as I wrote in my trade note. Lesson to learn: identify great setups then focus only on that until the play is over.

Hello everyone. I am a current Millionaire Challenge Student and I'm approaching my 1 year anniversary since discovering Timothy Sykes and deciding to start a new career in day trading. I am treating this as if I am going to business school. My expectations are that I can learn, be self sufficient and profitable within 3 years. Here is a timeline of my first year: June 2016 - Discovered Tim Sykes - Joined Profit.ly July 2016 - Bought and studied How to Make Millions - Signed on as Silver Subscriber and Tim Alerts - Tested different screeners and software: Stocks to Trade, Equity Feed, DAS Trader. STT was the only one I kept. July - Sept 2016 - Watched two years of Tim's video lesson library, starting from most recent and working my way backward - Practice reading charts, making watchlists and trade plans - Review and analyze how trade plans worked out Sept - Oct 2016 - Watched Tim's DVDs: - Trader Checklist - Pennystocking - Pennystocking Part Deux - Pennystocking Framework - Timline - Tim Fundamentals Part Deux - Learn Level 2 - Continued reading charts, making watchlists and trade plans - Continued to review and analyze how trade plans worked out - Continued watching new video lessons Nov - Dec 2016 - Joined Tim Challenge in Nov - Watched more DVDs: - Trading Tickers - TimRaw - Spikeability - TIMdicators - Shortstocking - Tim Tactics - School Trader - Purchased and watched Investors Underground DVDs: - Textbook Trading - Tandem Trader - Continued reading charts, making watchlists and trade plans - Continued to review and analyze how trade plans worked out - Continued watching new video lessons, now including Mark Croock - Joining webinars by Tim, Mark Croock, Michael Goode, Tim Grittani and Tim Bohen Jan - Apr 2017 - Signed up with Interactive Brokers - Simulated trading with $30k account - Lost initially down as far as -$3000 to being up +$6000... a +$9000 turn around from Mar-Apr! - Decided to start live trading - Continued reading charts, making watchlists and trade plans - Continued to review and analyze how trade plans worked out - Started logging my trades and saving charts - Started making spreadsheets for different patterns and creating stats - Continued watching new video lessons - Continued joining webinars and watching archived ones - Start analyzing Profit.ly trades by the Gurus as well as Dux and others Apr - June 2017 - Began Live Trading (in April) - As expected, started out negative, with small losses. Recently break even. - Watched more DVDs: - New Rules of Pennystocking - Started Read SEC Filings - Continued reading charts, making watchlists and trade plans - Continued to review and analyze how trade plans worked out - Continued logging my trades and saving charts - Continued making spreadsheets and stats - Continued watching new video lessons - Continued joining webinars and watching archived ones - Continued analyzing other traders Profit.ly trades As you can see, there is a lot of time and work that I have and still continue to put into this... I estimate easily a thousand hours or more this year. And I have loved every minute of it! Even though I have a long way to go... looking back, I have also come a long way.

For learning purposes, I include the charts, the entries and exits on each of my trades. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see them. Please feel free to comment. Any advice is appreciated.

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