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REVENGE!!! Couldn't stand that I feel like I got screwed on the last trade so I HAD to make it up. Here comes JFBR on the scanner going up with news! Homeland Security with AI. Great, I'm in! And it drops. Surely just a pullback, be patient. I look at the chart, been closing higher every day last few days. Not today, keeps dropping. Look at news - it's day old news! WTF. If I hold them, they drop. If I sell, they bounces back. Trade opposite me you'll be richer than Tim and Jack combined.

And why would I think I might just make a decent trade? Not in my nature. f me. Etrade has an exit strategy where you enter where you want to get out for a profit and a stop loss. As I submit it the price drops past my stop limit. I try to go in and modify the order, nope that won't work. So you have to cancel the order and start over. I cancel and just hit the "sell market" hot key. Lost about 54¢ a share. 2 hours later, it's up $2.27 from where I sold. If I held, it would have dropped 90%.

Again should have waited and it did go up more. I need to look a little closer at volume and catalyst. Maybe that would ease my mind a little going in to a trade. And I don't have hot keys in pre-market with etrade so it takes a minute to enter it manually. By the time it get in on a runner, other traders are already taking profit and of course it drops - I get nervous and get out. Then it pops and I miss the meat.
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