Finally! After some troubles with trying to get registered for Thinkorswim Paper Money, I was finally able to see the trading platform and execute me first trade. After fixing firewall problems at my high school, I was able to see the chart of my first trade: $EFOI. Saw the chart shortly before its second spike in the morning as I was notified by Tim and I decided to go in for 100 shares at 17.99 thinking it would be a breakout instead of anticipating a double top. I feel stupid looking at it now since I got waaaaaay too excited and wanted to execute my first trade, but I ended up breaking Tim's rule of taking profits. Luckily, since I knew this was an earnings winner, I decided to hold onto it thinking that it would eventually gain some upwards momentum. I feel proud of being able to spot failure to break the first-spike low at 17.15 so I got in 300 more shares at 17.45 on the way up. Unfortunately, my stupidity told me that the stock was going to fall quickly when it dipped $0.5  from $19 so I sold all 400 shared at $18.50. Finally I came back to my senses and got back on at $19.17 and now I'm planning to hold for a few days.

I feel like I make waaay too many orders and I should be confident with my decisions. Not the greatest trade, but at least I took some profits ($305!!!!!!). I think some of my mistakes were: not sticking to my guns, not going with an initial plan, and not respecting an earnings winner. I'm purposely trading small positions so I can get used to trading and so that I can see the types of trades I would do when I start trading with real money. I'm hoping to make more of these posts so I can look back, see how I've progressed, and review mistakes that I could fix. I kind of see how much emotion gets in the way of sticking to your gut... I'm anticipating that it'll get worse in the future.