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Old 02-18-2011, 11:33 PM   #1

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Trading on the Weekends

Hello Everyone,

I day trade stock and I'm looking for something to trade on the weekends.

Does anyone have any ideas

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Re: Trading on the Weekends

Open an Ebay account and buy and sell stuff on ebay.
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Re: Trading on the Weekends

use InteractiveBroker's demo system.

it streams stale data all weekend long. (24/7)
they even give you $2,000,000 to buy and sell on their account.
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Re: Trading on the Weekends

Do your research for the week coming up.

Trade off of weekly charts and determine what your trades will be starting Monday.

Start trading forex Sunday evening when the market opens -- though usually it's quiet except in the JPY crosses.

Review the week's prior trades and go over your trade plan.

Other than that, and all those can be valuable use of your time you're not going to be trading for dollars over the weekend.

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Man, get a life! Trading is not everything in this world
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Do a car boot sale, at least it will get you out in the open air for a bit and give the eyeballs some time off staring at the screen.
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Re: Trading on the Weekends

Hmmm. Unless there's a VALID reason that I'm missing, it sounds like you "MAY" have a Gambling Addiction problem, are POSSIBLY an ADRENALINE JUNKIE, or some combination of both.

Please note that I typed MAY and POSSIBLY. I cannot tell you that you are or are NOT something. I am merely waving a few RED FLAGS for you to consider.

I have personally been there, caused myself and some loved ones irrepairable financia damage, and in effect screwed a chunk of my life up pretty well trading. It's taken many years of "Shrink-Time" to understand why I was doing this and finally able to get back into the markets and be accountable, profitable, and in control of my emotions.

Be well, trade wisely and profitably.

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Re: Trading on the Weekends

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Hello Everyone,

I day trade stock and I'm looking for something to trade on the weekends.

Does anyone have any ideas

Thanks
Not a lot of helpful answers for ya here. I don't really have any either...
I don't think it's that silly to want something to trade weekends. Especially if you are like most of us and have a regular job during the week. I have often wondered myself if there was something that could be traded over the weekend when I had the time, but I haven't found anything. The best you can do is find something to trade early mornings or late at night.
Otherwise, like some have been saying, take the weekends to look over the carts and study the price action.
The other thing to try is forget about day-trading and look at daily charts. That will give you plenty to do over the weekend. Read Darvas's book. We don't need to day-trade. We just think we do.

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