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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (676)	9/26/1998 9:35:00 AM
From: LastShadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43080

Answers Would I modify my trades: had I the time I would have calculated limit entries for some of the more moving issues to get in lower intraday? As long as my net and TA says its a go, I generally hold. Stocks thatI abandon after a few days (notably QDEK recently) tend to teach nme not to do that. Maximum negative tends to be 12%, but I am more risk adverse than most. Maximum actual runs over 15% sometimes it the stock tanks Average hold time is about 7 days. In fast markets it can be as short as 4 days and in slow ones as long as 6 months I find no difference between stocks under a buck or over $100 in general, but that could be because of my selection criteria. In general I prefer to pay less than $40 as the % return is greater on average. I find little difference between NAS and NYSE, except that I am more comfortable setting stips on NYSE, but the greater gains are on NAS I generally try to buy 1000 shares of everthing. My minimum buy is 300 shares as that is the minimum to exit 'all or none' I am not in the market at all times. I rarely short. My personal opinion is that I overtrade, when holding would be better, although I don't have any data to support that. lastshadow