@Tone My first thought is to use the pre-market range as a guide, but I'd have to research. This did make me curious though so I tested the long side in Trade-Ideas. Here's a link to the alert page, which includes the filter params I used http://bit.ly/2KpgOjw - 62% win rate & 21% return over 60 days (164 trades) if you buy in the first 5 mins and hold for half an hour. 10% profit target / 2.5% hard stop

Thanks for the reply. Interesting stats, though I didn't really know what to do with the link. Not familiar with trade ideas. Do I go to that link and then leave it to produce results over time? Thanks.

@Tone yea, that's a live alert window although it'll be delayed if you don't have an account. you can hover over the icons to see the filter values I used in the backtest.

@cwood, ok, got it. Cheers. :-)

Thanks for sharing the strategy. I've registered for the scanner and will give it a go. I've been thinking about how best to get broad earnings data instead of trawling through calendars. Good to see you're still killing it!

@Tone Earnings calendars are so inefficient, not to mention they don't have post-earnings pricing data/trends so it's tough to build strategies using a simple calendar.

awesome post

Getting this under control quickly seems to be a differentiator between those that progress fairly quickly and those (like me) that struggle for a while at the beginning. Working on having a mentality where taking small losses is necessary is crucial.

There's a few of us around. I've been pretty much part time, so haven't really kept in touch. There's a few guys who seem to have a bit of experience. Time zone is the killer, especially if you want to do day trading on US markets. Swing trading or Futures trading offer better lifestyle choices.

thanks for reaching out, what platform are you using here and what state are you trading in? i'm in WA

Using Stocks to Trade for charting and scans. Have a few brokers where i just use their browser based platforms for executions but mainly use Interactive Brokers. Also have accounts with Schwab and Suretrader. I'm in Qld, WA is definitely a better time zone for trading US stocks.

Just say whatever is necessary to pass the application. The system tells when you don't qualify and then just change your answer to make it work. All that application is doing is trying to make sure you arent a professional trader that trades other peoples money for a living and you are trying to pay non-professional fees and rates and slide by all of the rest of the stuff that the professional traders have to go through. It isn't meant to weed out novice traders.

Thanks all for sharing your experiences. I'm a little bit OCD so was probably over thinking things too much.

Postscript: Looks like my concerns were 100% accurate. IB have only given me a 'Trading' (cash) account I can't short and I can't change the account type in the configuration. There was NOTHING in the application where I could choose this. Waiting to hear if they will change the account type for me. Seem like they randomly fuck people over.

Post Postscript: So IB customer support tell me I CAN short. .......'We can see that you have a trading account with IB-AU entity. In trading account, shorting is allowed. You can place an order to short on any of our trading platforms'.......how confusing

i have been using schwab for 1 year as of feb. i rarely short but i will say this - every ticker i see guys shorting is hard to borrow at schwab and the few times i called their desk they had no shares.

from what i can tell in the chat room stick to the brokers the big time short players use.

@Noble1222 Cool, thanks very much.

When I opened an account with them, the bank that I transferred money to was in Malta. Have used them a bit, executions seem ok, but almost never have shares to short when I'm searching for them.

@Tone Thanks for your feedback! Makes me feel a bit better :)

Yes, they are always chancing banks to find who will give them the best leverage.

Foolw me on twitter as well @turbobob129 as I post lots of market commentary there as well.

Have only just created an account recently. I did trade with them last Friday and had no issues.

Aussies seem to keep popping up here lately, lol. Perth is a slightly better time zone for Day Trading US stocks. I'm in Brisbane and it's pretty rough. Good luck with it, will be following your progress.

@Tone eastern state traders do have it tough if they want to trade market open I guess over time I've got used to the fact that I'm going to be a bit sleep deprived lol.

Thanks Bob.

Great Lesson. Thanks

Great video, thank you so much!

Thanks Bob