Yes, I can see that makes sense Carla

Hey Carla, I find "the game of stock", which runs on Android not bad. If you paper trade the risk is that you give prices that are better than actual... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nyxcore.stukulu&hl=en

Congratulations for your solid profit! you are very driven to do a lot of paper trades... I just started with some tiny real money positions... I bought 5 WMT yesterday and I hope to get 20 KO tomorrow.

I've lost a lot of real money so I have rethought my learning process to include a lot more paper trades. That's an iInteresting stock market game. thanks. @stefano

Another way of looking at in, when one jumps in for real, one starts to learn for real, just my opinion of course :-)

I think though Carla, we definitely learn more when it is for real because we have the emotions attached to what is going on as well. Paper trading as you know if you lose, there is no big deal about it as you have not lost anyway

I feel you, it always felt to me that those paper trading ops were a little off.

I was offered a 7 day paper trade to start with st, did open an account with st but never got to paper trade. I feel it is never the same, I always did better trading paper trades, but when money was on the line for me was a different story :-)

cracked Low of Day!

As the new boy all double dutch to me at the moment :-)

Gordonmartin - I am new-er to Shorting as well. I look for big run ups with little or no justification, and I also like Technical Analysis and charts to show or validate what I think. There is a good site if you are new to chart patters - http://www.candlesticker.com/BearishPatterns.aspx?lang=en

Thanks for the vcomments, most helpful. I lost about £1500 stg on options in the 80's and have not been back since. I like this type of trading and do want to learn to do it well, and make it into a full time thing. Nothing worse than losing money more than gaining. Pleasure to meet you, Gordon here in Northern Ireland

I don't use Level II to base my entries, I look the 5 minute or 3 minutes chart supports and resistences, but this is me, think in pennys if you have a big position y need to use Level II but I never bet heavily. WIsh you great trades, make things simple, don't overtrade if you new, dont leverage more than 2x your account. G lucky

Thanks appreciate your comprehensive reply Sir, I am new, got to start somewhere though :-)

yep, check syskes , connor, Superman, Triforce watchlists or trades, try to catch their ideas and mix with your style. You are welcome .

Gentleman Sir, thanks very much, Warmest Regards, Gordon