Copyright © 2026 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=52418Another newbie trader, trolling for any and all ideas! Last week I managed to lose something on the order of $5,000 in the market as a result of, well, being an idiot. Oh, I'd like to say it was just flabby thinking and bad timing, or that I was just too emotional about trades that were only starting to go bad--maybe I could even blame the loss on my laundry detergent, ha! I was going to put together a nice little story, but here it is...in a nutshell: Early in the week I moved about 100k into a handful of biotechs and posted a portfolio on my "Thread of Life", the portfolio had a lot of overlap with the new shares. I confidently stated that I was setting a really liberal stop loss, and had no worries. Naturally the puchases were immediately a buck in the red... Over the next couple days I had a couple of conversations which really rattled me--it seems that there are are still some people out there who have savings in the market. Incredible. Anyway, while I was under the influcence of a double mocha, and I had the brilliant idea that rather than hold some positions for weeks to months, I would be a real hotshot and daytrade a few thousand shares of Elan, ELN. Ha! I opened a level II screen for Elan, and sat, frozen. A deer in the headlights. I had no idea what to do. And the rest his history. I probably should have made a couple of grand last week, but instead paid a heavy toll on the traders highway. Maybe I needed a good smack to wake me up. And with that, I am starting this new thread. ............. "The thread of life" My old weblog; mostly useless rambling on my part. But a few of the biotech enthusiasts stopped by from time to time, and that was much appreciated. Subject 34413https://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttps://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5241838013210