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Old 12-12-2007, 06:53 AM
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Re: Holding overnight positions

Personally, my journal contains at least half a dozen highlighted entries for overnight day trades. A couple turned out ok and gave me a mental comfort level. More than half ended up massive losses because of overnight downgrades or bad news. I allowed that to happen because of previous successes and an "it will turn around soon". That was a big lesson learned long ago.

To me, it's not worth the risk or lost sleep so everything closed by EOD.

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