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Interesting point about avast I never have that problem on any normal site. Only occasionally on sites that are known "problem" sites avast warns that the site has malicious code and wants to close the page. Otherwise no problem. I also have a catalog program that avast warned me that the exe file was malicious since I use this one for many years I know it is a false positive so I just tell avast not to scan that 1 file. You can pretty much set anything in avast but sometimes it is not obvious how to get there. I guess it is on purpose that way so less possibility to defeat the actual purpose of the program. It's better then AVG for my opinion and I used AVG for many years too. Happy stock hunting all

Avast as virus scanner, Comodo as firewall. Why pay if you don't have to. You suspect something is up then get spybot and adaware to clean. Norton and McAffee, whenever I repair or setup a new computer, they have to go. McAffee was good in the old days then they followed Norton and intruded on every file they could find. They really know how to bring a computer to a crawl. Happy hunting

Thanks for your replies, dbphoenix I like the six stages. Thats' why I mentioned I think I am little in stage 2 but somehow I can't commit to that either. Spending money to read on somebody else's success is not fully my cup of tea since it does not mean it will happen to me too. After I closed my e-mail I get some quick nuggets on the page and one pointed to Motley fools, so I clicked it and that's what was written there: "Cramer: But as long as people invest well and stay interested, they could make a fortune, he continued. The one cure for boredom with investing is speculation, said Cramer, who believes people need to speculate if they want to be good investors. Speculation, he explained, means trading in a "high-risk, high-reward" stock and "trying to turn a little money into a whole lot of money in not a lot of time." Some might consider speculation to be foolhardy and "more immoral than gambling," but Cramer, who has made some of his biggest gains by speculating, believes speculation is good for investors. " I think that's my problem. My thinking is in terms of gambling not in terms of investing. Diablo is most likely right but then, at least I had fun. Actually, since I am not trading contracts where you have a winner and a loser in the end, I could still win and let live anybody else too. Stocks are not really so clearcut, unless I had stocks I bought for ~$160.- or more a share. I can't see stocks that went from ~160 to a few cents going anywhere near to that price in the near future. Hmmmm, then of course it would be nice to have a couple 10k shares of "that one". Thanks for your time and I wish all a Happy and prosperous 2009 New Year. May the force be with us

Hi All, This is my first post here. Thanks for all your writing in this forum. Since I am green, really green on the whole stock trading my 2 cents want count very much but I gladly share them anyway. I know, :crap: This is actually my 3rd time playing with stocks but I don't count the first 2 times since I only lost money, very little, since I had only $500.- account in the first place. Now I have 5 cents more, maybe 10. Anyway, I still learned something, do not trade pink sheets :doh: How is the market now?, I looked at it and found the ~$160.- stock 6~12 month ago down to the penny-stocks (pink). My thinking was hmmmmmm, if the stock is ~50 cents, traded on NYSE or Nasdaq why don't you just buy some. Look what the lowest/highest already was in the last 12 month just as a reference. Then look what is it right now, then without consulting anything, I make a limit order for about 5cents lower then it is, sometimes even 10 cents and walk away. Comes afternoon I check if the broker bought it for me and sometimes yes and sometimes no, therefore there will be a other day tomorrow. Seems to work more times then expected. Reverse, now I got the stock, I look in the morning make a limit order to sell for 10 cents more and wait. Sometimes it takes 2~3 days limit orders before it sells but, it sells. Usually I buy 10k shares and it makes money too. Now broker has trailing stops I can use so I just let it follow sell when it pulls back below 2~3% of the high and I am done with it. Never looked at anything, just whenever I feel like. I came to this forum because I taught it can't be that simple, I guess phase 2, where I don't want to believe in simplicity. I think all the real good traders just have a nag (or gift) for numbers and know when what to buy or sell. They may say that they use this that or there but probably it is there ability to "see" it. Do I have that? I wish I could say yes but I don't think so. The market is just cheap with a lot of good stocks gone to hell and I am trying to ride the wave. Can I really make my (modest) living with it? I don't think so even tough it would be nice since it does not take much effort on my end. I know, fast money and usually that ends bad, on the other hand I would just loose a few thousand dollar. Actually, as much as I read otherwise, I come back to what I always taught about the stock market. It is pure and simple gambling. I like the PA simplicity but right now at this time I go simpler and take even the A out and stick with the prices under 1 dollar for good stocks. Anybody out there that will rip the greenhorn to pieces now? Thanks for your time, just in case you read this to the end.