This was my first week trading.  I have been getting up early and watching the market open and closes throughout this week, and watching Tim's videos throughout the last couple weeks.  I also did some "paper trading" in excel looking for trends.  I used ThinkorSwim to track charts and create some growth and panic scanners and I used e*Trade as my broker.

On Thursday I was starting to get comfortable and decided to make a purchase.  I watched throughout the morning but still was a bit nervous to pull the trigger.  It reached midday and and activity fell so I spent some time watching more of Tim's videos and tweaking my scanners.

By afternoon I had several tickers that I saw potential in and finally pulled the trigger on GLBR.  I saw the stock was gradually increasing all day and saw volume increasing so I expected it to have a bit of a spike, hoping for it to reach $1 which it had hit previously.  I bought at $.66 and it did increase but started to get choppy so I exited early taking small profit.

I also was watching VTGN and saw that the last few mornings it had spiked so I bought in afterhours after it had fallen to $1.8.  I was hoping it would hit 2.5 the next morning based on a HOD.  The morning after I logged in and noticed it had hit 2.3 in early morning and was falling so I sold at 2 in order to capture my gains.

Friday morning after selling I was watching the charts and my watchlist and noticed GLBS falling and was hoping to buy into a morning panic.  It only increased a bit and kept falling so I got out quick taking a small loss.

I was also watching STGG which had gone from less than a penny to .70 the day before.  It had already reached the previous days volume so I decided to get in early.  I attempted to buy at 1.3 but by the time I had completed the order it was at 1.7.  It kept spiking, hit 3.70 and started to fall down so I sold and got out at 3.3.  Overall a great win, though perhaps more risk than I should have taken.

At that point I realized I had reached 3 day trades, so most of next week I will only be able to do overnight trades due to the PDT rule.  A little annoying but it will be good practice looking for some gap ups.

Thanks for reading, I just figured I would summarize my trades each week so I could hopefully see my progress.