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Wow, I just looked back and realized that I did not say "paper traded" for that little test. This makes my post quite a bit out of context. But still, Uexkuell, you're still brutal.
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I'm not really spamming, I'm seriously just telling you how I even got into the idea of stock trading. I also have not been trading for some time, where did I say that? I've only ever traded on paper. Way to be hostile. If you mentioned that you got into stock trading because you read a particular hardcover book, would that be spamming? Brutal.
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Hello all. I'm new to this site, and particularly new to trading forums in general. Here's a quick background on me: - 29 years old, male, married - B.S. in IT, MS in Systems Engineering, currently working as a Systems Engineer What brought me to be interested in stock trading? As cheesy as some of you probably think this is... a silly e-book called "PayTrading" brought me to it. I read that a few years ago and thought that it sounded like a terrible way of trading. A friend of mine thought we should try it on paper for s***'s and giggles, so we did. After 6 month's we were up 50%... not too bad in my eyes. Recently, I've been learning to program in PHP. How does this relate? Well, to improve my skills at coding, I decided to try to implement a system to automatically find and rate stocks based on that silly e-book, since that was pretty much the extent of my trading knowledge. Currently my system does the following: - Grabs all of the stock tickers from the Upgrades/Downgrades list and puts them in a database - Tracks the price of all of the stocks in that database (now at 700+) every minute of the day by grabbing the price automatically from Google's realtime prices. I store this info in a database - I have a very crude mock trading page that allows me to trade on paper any stocks with the click of a button (it shows the current price of the stock in question and lets you "buy" how ever many shares you select, then tracks its performance). This system allows for stoplosses and limit orders. I really have no concept of what knowledge is needed to be a successful day trader, but I was drawn to this forum as a place to learn.