Donated $300, hope. this helps and sorry again I didn't see this earlier!

Awesome post! It is inspiring me to keep learning the market and pursue my dream of being a full time trader! Thank you Mason

Lots of good nuggs of wisdom here. I'm almost 2 months into the challenge now and glad to come across a post like this. It's refreshing to see some long bias, everywhere I turn it seems that people want to drop the hammer on stocks-ha! I can see where you are coming from with understanding the mindset of a short seller to help with long setups--Spikeability and Short Stocking have given me some perspective on this, as well as SEC filings and the book the art of short selling by kathryn staley se

awesome post @mason_fecht! I've been focusing lately on avoiding getting shaken out of my trades and am having much more success!

wow man, very inspiring! thanks for taking the time to share this with us. i've been a trading challenge student for a under a year now but i've only been trading for about 4 months. When i get discouraged its post like this that perk me back up and keep me focused. Thanks.

anyone questioning the strategies in the dvd needs to watch it again. and again. rewind parts, put your phone down and take notes. its literally typed out on the screen. -------- up 20-25% pre market (up at least that much) 9million and under float works the best (unless biotech), needs news, and low resistance, before he goes into the strategy he talks about the resistance. its all there.

Wow some people in here are so greedy. This amazing dude doesn’t have to help us out at all! He takes the time to put out free content and videos with Tim. Like grow up , put your big boy pants on and start studying. His main advice was find great mentors and learn the best from all of them . You don’t need to tell him what he does wrong . Worry about what you do wrong man. And you know know you are! This place is for uplifting not bashing! Please stop the crap thx!

@thughes3 your the man!!!

@bahamastrader123 If you don't know what consolidating in a channel means you're not making money because you are clueless. You have no business trading, which is why you're not making money. Study first, like a lot more before blaming someone else for your ignorance.

PS .. I actually have $VUZI on my watch list for monday, along with; AQB (1.5m float) , $CYTX , $CVO , and DMPI (15 m float but had decent volume)

Good lessons, thanks for sharing! I did something different with $VUZI: due to the positive news (even in bloomberg) and because of the 52WH b/o closing last Friday I bought a very small position at 7.90$ and hold over the weekend. Unfortunately I was not connected an hour ago when reached 9.5$ in premarket in order to sell but I will wait until market opens to sell. One question: Where do you check the shares short for a ticker? cheers!

I was using sometimes this web: http://shortsqueeze.com/

@mendozatrader Hopefully you locked in some good profits! I just check Yahoo Finance for short interest

Then you have to grade yourself as well. Work on entries and exits

which means you need to know the plays/patterns/framework/timeline/fundamentals and so on. Take it one play at a time, in this game you never really stop learning because theres always new sectors or bubbles.

Yeah I want to do all that stuff and perhaps one day I will when I have the time to, right now I shuffle a full time job, working 60 hrs a week and learning from all the DVD's for the challenge... A little overwhelmed at the moment. But it sounds like something I should be doing if I want success.

your doing better than you did, just take the great setups. not any trade thats moving.

@williammorris16 Yeah, thank you. I guess it does really come down to being a new trader. 1. my confidence isnt great 2. Im not properly planning before trades. Thank you for the help.

I miss dozen of them a day. You can’t trade them all and you need accept the idea your eyes can’t be everywhere. If you miss trades on stocks you are watching closely then its another problem : you might have the fear to pull the trigger when things are setting up. That means you’re most likely not prepared enough. Prepare your trades more. If the things you’re looking for are lining up, you shouldn’t be hestitating. Try visualization. Be in the trade even before it actually happens. Good luck

don't focus on what you've missed. that'll destroy you. focus on opportunities.

Having a plan will help. I had the same problem and got pissed off i kept missing opportunities so i wrote this blog: http://profit.ly/user/TradeSmall?id=2713354