Working a day job and making a profit with low capital

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Working a day job and making a profit with low capital

An SI Board Since April 1999

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Emcee: Fred Davis	Type: Unmoderated

Introduction Compact

I know it sounds almost impossible and maybe it is. Still working on how to accomplish making money with very little capitol. I would like to discuss trading techinches with the very small investor.

Any type of investing technique can be discussed provided it meets the citera.

I would also welcome any discussion here on experiences and lessons learned from our trading patterns. I have quite a few experiences myself that I will share along the way throughout our discussion.

I would like to discuss short term versus long term ideas for investors such as myself that work a day job and don't have the time to sit a computer all day and watch real time quotes.

Success strories are also welcome but please be honest. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has taken a very small initial investment and turned it into a sizeable portfolio.

If someone has a stock for the thread to do some dd on by all means post it, but please on hype or spamming allowed.

My personal reasons for starting this thread is that I have had some very bad trading experiences in the past and lost quite a bit of my capitol. I'm sure there are many others on SI that have had these same experiences and would like to discuss them here.

Another item that I would like discussion on is buying cheaper stocks in order to buy more shares when operating with very low capitol.

One last comment. Due to my many trading mistakes in the past is the very reason for starting this discussion concerning low capitol. I have no desire to add anymore play money to the market and do feel there are market techniques that can allow for capitol appreciation.

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32	Hello Richard and thanks for your insight. It's been quite a while since a	Fred Davis	-	5/5/1999
31	Cool thread. I'm currently trying to do this as well... I'm pretty new	Richard Iglar	-	5/5/1999
30	Thanks Pana for your very informative post. I still haven't gotten away fr	Fred Davis	-	4/16/1999
29	Hi Fred and All : New to the thread - I have a few comments : BBs are REALLY	trendy	-	4/15/1999
28	Fred, Here is a link to the response in case you didn't catch it: exchan	MSB	-	4/12/1999
27	Thanks Mike for the link. I would also like to hear the response to your quest	Fred Davis	-	4/11/1999
26	Fred and thread (hey, thats kind of catchy), Here is a link to a response from	MSB	-	4/11/1999
25	Thanks for your explanation. I'll try and experiment with your method next	Fred Davis	-	4/10/1999
24	Nope, sorry, no proven system. Problem is to do what you suggest with regard to	MSB	-	4/10/1999
23	Let me see if I understand what you're saying in reference to these selecte	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
22	Expanding off of: exchange2000.com Yep, its hard for me to keep things to the	MSB	-	4/9/1999
21	LOL! There is something to be said for the protective effect of the proper att	Ilaine	-	4/9/1999
20	<i>"I posted about my guardian angle (should have been angel)"	mr.mark	-	4/9/1999
19	What exactly are we talking about with regard to low capital? I'm working	MSB	-	4/9/1999
18	I have no idea, but that sounds like a good start. There is a Welcome to SI th	Ilaine	-	4/9/1999
17	That is some food for thought on percentages. I have started factoring in my b	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
16	Think of transaction costs in percentages. If you pay $10 commission to buy o	CatLady	-	4/9/1999
15	This is the first thread I have started and am unsure how to do that. Should I	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
14	I am sure you understand the difference between the two. It happens to us all,	Ilaine	-	4/9/1999
13	How many positions do you consider holding in order to maintain diversification	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
12	I've never heard of anyone who can do 2% day in and day out. The point is t	CatLady	-	4/9/1999
11	Thanks for the link. I probably need to start looking at changing brokers to g	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
10	Patience. Learning to go after small steady gains has helped my trading a lot.	CatLady	-	4/9/1999
9	Thanks for the correction. I usually use spell check but in this case it doesn	Fred Davis	-	4/9/1999
8	The word you want is "capital." The word "capitol" applies	Ilaine	-	4/9/1999

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