Well, I spent almost the entire weekend relaxing. The weather here was beautiful! Not a cloud in the sky, so I walked around the historic district, in all those art museums, and funky shops. Just my best friend and I, and then came home to jump start on the week.
I just can't believe I really didn't look at the stock market at all this weekend. I guess I needed a break from it, so I can go in tomorrow, and be ready.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
How I pick my picks
So many people ask me how I find my stock picks, especially since I have a full-time job (mostly at night), and still have time to daytrade. I guess it helps that I'm addicted to the stock market, and can't step away from my computer for too long. And I apologize in advance to Ahmad, who asked me to blog for him, and tell his followers how I find my picks. I promise, I will do that very soon.
I use equity feed, and then I also use twitter to find out who is promoting it. Seems like a wacky combination, but different promoters have different reasons for promoting. Some, it's because there is dilution going on in the company. Some, just genuinely has news to share.
Equity feed is pretty cool because I can watch the market, and set alerts for what is moving. I don't want to bore ya'll with too much of that, but basically I set the scanner to go off when a stock hits 10% above the lowest price of the day, and then I watch VERY closely. If you don't have Level 2, you really do need it, if you plan on watching.
In between all of this, I like to chat with all of my new friends on facebook and twitter, and see what everyone else is playing. Usually I can jump in on someone else's ride too. I also set goals for myself, for instance, if I make $500 this week, I will buy myself a bottle of Cakebread or Silver Oak, to enjoy for the weekend. I'm very driven when it comes to that, and have every intention of drinking the finest wine every weekend!
So I guess it's back to my stocks; I hope more stocks will be moving soon. I love finding those stocks that go up 5,000% in one day, although that's pretty rare.
And thanks to everyone who already viewed my blog. I might even put some more pictures up for ya'll.
xoxoxo
I use equity feed, and then I also use twitter to find out who is promoting it. Seems like a wacky combination, but different promoters have different reasons for promoting. Some, it's because there is dilution going on in the company. Some, just genuinely has news to share.
Equity feed is pretty cool because I can watch the market, and set alerts for what is moving. I don't want to bore ya'll with too much of that, but basically I set the scanner to go off when a stock hits 10% above the lowest price of the day, and then I watch VERY closely. If you don't have Level 2, you really do need it, if you plan on watching.
In between all of this, I like to chat with all of my new friends on facebook and twitter, and see what everyone else is playing. Usually I can jump in on someone else's ride too. I also set goals for myself, for instance, if I make $500 this week, I will buy myself a bottle of Cakebread or Silver Oak, to enjoy for the weekend. I'm very driven when it comes to that, and have every intention of drinking the finest wine every weekend!
So I guess it's back to my stocks; I hope more stocks will be moving soon. I love finding those stocks that go up 5,000% in one day, although that's pretty rare.
And thanks to everyone who already viewed my blog. I might even put some more pictures up for ya'll.
xoxoxo
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
My First Posting
So..... I guess I created this because so many of my friends were pressuring me to. I guess they think I'm not boring, which I always thought I was.
I think of myself as a lucky girl, and no, my real name is not Lucky, it's Drae. I am a girly girl, but can hang with the boys with the best of them. I love all sports, especially betting on them, but I really enjoy seeing them live, and not on tv. Ice hockey, football, baseball, girls football, you name it, and I'm there! I have lots of favorite teams, and they change everyday probably, mostly cause I will get bored with a team.
I'm lucky with stocks too. I hate to say this, but I scan and look at charts, but my best successes are the ones that I just get a feeling about. Maybe it's women's intuition, maybe it's craziness, but I'll look at a stock, and do a search on twitter, to make sure it's not being promoted like crazy, and then start my DD on them.
And yes, I always do DD on every stock, because there's so many promoters out there that will tell you things like, reverse merger in the works, or big LOI is being announced today, or things like that. Isn't that insider trading? I always think of insider trading as when someone has inside information, and the general public doesn't have it.
Well anyway, enough about that. The stock market only has 45 more minutes til they ring that bell, which makes me sad. But then, I think, it's 5:00pm somewhere, so it's time to head to the clubhouse to mingle with my friends. We have happy hour at the clubhouse everyday, sometimes with wine, sometimes they change it up to red bulls and coca-cola, for those who have to work at night. I'm hoping tonight is going to be a wine night, but let's save that for another story.
Love you, all of my friends and followers xoxoxo
I think of myself as a lucky girl, and no, my real name is not Lucky, it's Drae. I am a girly girl, but can hang with the boys with the best of them. I love all sports, especially betting on them, but I really enjoy seeing them live, and not on tv. Ice hockey, football, baseball, girls football, you name it, and I'm there! I have lots of favorite teams, and they change everyday probably, mostly cause I will get bored with a team.
I'm lucky with stocks too. I hate to say this, but I scan and look at charts, but my best successes are the ones that I just get a feeling about. Maybe it's women's intuition, maybe it's craziness, but I'll look at a stock, and do a search on twitter, to make sure it's not being promoted like crazy, and then start my DD on them.
And yes, I always do DD on every stock, because there's so many promoters out there that will tell you things like, reverse merger in the works, or big LOI is being announced today, or things like that. Isn't that insider trading? I always think of insider trading as when someone has inside information, and the general public doesn't have it.
Well anyway, enough about that. The stock market only has 45 more minutes til they ring that bell, which makes me sad. But then, I think, it's 5:00pm somewhere, so it's time to head to the clubhouse to mingle with my friends. We have happy hour at the clubhouse everyday, sometimes with wine, sometimes they change it up to red bulls and coca-cola, for those who have to work at night. I'm hoping tonight is going to be a wine night, but let's save that for another story.
Love you, all of my friends and followers xoxoxo
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