Unless you're shorting, cash is fine. the Just limit your trades per day and use half you account each day to have something to work with. I'm going with an off shore broker to get around this. Papertrading at the moment.

TD is pretty bad with shares to short honestly so I actually made my TD account cash and opened a second account with e trade just for shorts so imo cash for TD is fine and the fact that cash makes over trading harder it isn't a bad idea.

All good reminders. Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of two accounts. Gotta keep trading my account balance up. I'd like to be able to do everything in one place if possible though. Is it hard to watch stocks going way up on one screen/one account, and watching stocks tank and monitoring short sells on another screen/account?

The market moves fast...

This last week was my first week trading and I took too many trades as well/ I came out okay overall, but it could have been a stellar week if I hadn't taken some of the trades I did. I also can't help but feel I lucked out on some of the others. As long as we are learning and adhering to rules I think we can make strides improving.

Read my 3 blogs https://profit.ly/user/Raylbc27/blog

@Raylbc27 They were good reads. I don't subscribe to the video lessons currently. I just can't afford to add another $75 on top of chat room access and watchlist. I don't attempt to mimic his trades though. What I like to do is import his watchlist into ToS AFTER I put together a watchlist myself. Any common stocks between the two feel like winners. I run scans casually in free time during the weekend, and I have pre-market scans for the 2-3 hours I'm up before market opens. I am currently profi

Sorry, I typed a book. To finish, I am currently profitable. I think its dumb luck though. I have a ton more to learn, and I need to get better at adhering to the rules I've put in place.