Lately I've been experimenting with paper trading. A method recommended in the book "Trading in the zone". The author recommended you should paper trade the next 20 trades that meet your individual criteria and follow your rules for the next 20 trades, NO MATTER WHAT, (even if you feel tired, or busy or whatever). So I did that. Made my watch list each night. Woke up around 6:00 am each morning (I'm on the west coast). I happen to see this ticker on yahoo finance in the morning and it worked