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Interesting source of .PDF documents - http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/stock-trading-pdf.html

Rules

  • Pattern Day Trader - Do 4 round trip trades within 5 days, and you're whacked with the PDT rule that you must have at least $25,000 in your account. If you hold your trades until the next day, then you don't count as a day trader. I almost hit this without realizing it, I just happened to be in the "account settings" on my account and saw something about being flagged as a "pattern day trader" and wondered what the benefits were.

Virtual Stock Exchanges

Stock software games

  • Offline stock market game - http://www.expertworx.com/pm/index.htm
  • http://www.thespartantrader.com/
  • RapidSP Day Trading Simulator - $99 - RapidSP is a powerful yet easy to learn day trading simulator that can be used for realistic tick-by-tick paper trading of stocks, futures and currencies. Test your trading abilities with virtual money and see how much you can make by predicting the intra day price movements correctly. With day trading skills there is no limit on how much you can make even in real life. You can download more data for many stocks, currencies and futures for free at http://www.tradingsimulatorsoftware.com.
  • Advance Stock Pattern Scanner 2.0
    • Professsional stock analysis/screening software for Free or only $12/month. Supported analysis include: Trend Breaking, Chart Patterns, Gartley 222, Candlestick Patterns, Technical Systems using Indicators, Fundamental Analysis. Features include Free data update, MetaStock data support, Fast and beautiful charts, Visual Backtesting, and Portfolio Manager. Fully customizable plugins, User-Friendly trading system development.
    • Released: 2004-03-21
    • License: $12.00
    • Publisher: Cisiova Incorporated
    • Language: English
    • Platform: Windows
    • Requirements: 400 Mhz, 128 MB Ram
  • More possible programs - http://candlestick.qarchive.org/

Stock Analysis Methods

Stock screening

  • Stock Fetcher - http://www.stockfetcher.com
    • EOD Data sources: DDFPlus & CSI Data
      • Quotes delayed during active market hours. Delay times are at least 15 mins for NASDAQ, 20 mins for NYSE and Amex. Delayed intraday data provided by DDFPlus
      • Examples from forum on backtesting
        • 1/29/2008 2:49:49 AM - I have a few that range between 88-93 depending on which year you choose to test it on. I am a very short term trader who looks for bullish signs (such as a gap up) and then placing a small profit stop like 1% and a 1 day maximum hold. The chances of a stocks price going up only 1% are excellent if you've found something that at the very least causes some volatility in the movement of the price (my favorite, as I said is gaps). I set my advanced settings to allow trades of stocks whose daily range includes the prior days low (in effect setting the target buy price at the previous days low if available) "price at which position is entered: low 1 day ago." 1% isn't much of a gain, but if you are trading with some 10k-15k you will find nice daily gains. (beats the hell out of normal workin
        • Has an evaluation mode, but couldn't find out how to signup for it, the only signup operations cost money.
        • Only good for trading based on daily data, no way to screen on intraday data. Intraday data used for the current date.
  • eTrade Pro Strategy Scanner - Notes and Review - intraday scanning

software

Stock notes:

Ideas on where to go for research on stocks

Unfiled

  • The dangers of taxes on exercising stock options that you then hold on to.... http://www.bradynet.com/bbs/nonem/100008-0.html
    • The paper gains seemed so real that employees began focusing on how to lower their tax bills and pocket more of their profits. Though there are differing tax treatments on different types of stock options, many recipients rushed to exercise their options and did not sell the shares immediately, with the goal of lowering their total tax bills. Gains on stock held at least a year are taxed at no more than 20 percent, while shorter-term gains can be taxed up to 39.6 percent. In some cases, holding onto the stock for a year after purchase could mean that all the profits were taxed at the lower rate.
    • Intertrust employees said holding onto the stock seemed smart even after the stock fell, because everyone believed it would come back. "Once the stock hit a certain price, people were sure it would get there again," said Erwin Lenowitz, the company's former chief financial officer.

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