Milestone #2: Executed first trade today. Rewriting summary here due to character limit in trade summary. "First trade ever and I used E*Trade since I already had an account. Stock didn't dip down to $1:00 as hoped for when the market opened but I bought 43 shares at $1.19. It later dipped down to $1.06 then slowly began to climb back up. Analysis: I looked at the history and how the stock moved. Past spikes seemed to occur at 30 after the hour. Maybe irrelevant but I thought about muscle memory and I anticipated it to bounce up a third time around 1:30pm. It began to look like a third bounce was starting around 1:33pm. Not sure how much of that was a hunch or insight from a pattern. End Result: Lost $11.12 due to $13.92 commission. I hadn't thought about commissions going into the trade. Lesson learned. Will need to research more about how commissions work in E*Trade. Wrote in the Webinar "I'm writing my first trade summary and I'm not sure how much of my analysis was a hunch or if studying the stock history paid off. I have so much to learn. " Tim said it was a good attitude. Will think about that going forward."
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