So this is my first trade since starting the challenge. It's exciting watching the trade happen live!

 

Was watching $MSRT and my plan for the day was to buy it at $1.75 and sell it at $2.25. 

Pre-trading the price had shot up to around 1.75 from it's previous close of about 1.68.

Minutes after trading opened, I put in my buy order for 1400 shares @ $1.77.

Shortly after the price went up to 2.17 and started dropping. I panicked and sold 1000 shares for 2.05

Of course it then bounced and went up to 2.25, I sold my remaining 400 shares for 2.15 on the way up.

I locked in my profits. $450 on the day.

I had to fight the temptation to get back in, and told myself to be happy with my profit for the day. That's more than most people make in a day and it's not even 9:30am (CST)!

Glad I stayed out when I did, because as of this post the price is dipping into the low teens.

Nobody knows what's going to happen with a stock. I had a plan, and I stuck to it for the most part. I'm not prepared for what happens next, so I best stay out until I can figure out my next course of action.