What is Day Trading

 

What is Day Trading?

Day trading (and trading in general) is the buying and selling of various financial instruments, such as futures, options, currencies, and stocks, with the goal of making a profit from the difference between the buying price and the selling price. Day trading differs slightly from other styles of trading in that positions are rarely (if ever) held overnight or when the market being traded is closed.

Day trading was originally only available to financial companies (such as banks), because only they had access to the exchanges and market data. But with recent technology such as the Internet, individual traders now have direct access to the same exchanges and market data, and can make the same trades at very low cost.

Characteristics of a Day Trader

Knowledge and Experience in the Marketplace

Individuals who attempt to day trade without an understanding of market fundamentals often end up losing money.

Sufficient Capital

One cannot expect to make money day trading. Day traders use only risk capital, which they can afford to lose. Not only does this protect them from financial ruin, but it also helps eliminate emotion from their trading. A large amount of capital is often necessary to capitalize effectively on intra-day price movements.

A Strategy

A trader needs an edge over the rest of the market. There are several different strategies that day traders utilize, including: swing trading, arbitrage as well as trading news, among others. These strategies are refined until they produce consistent profits and effectively limit losses.

Discipline

A profitable strategy is useless without discipline. Many day traders end up losing a lot of money because they fail to make trades that meet their own criteria. As they say, “Plan the trade and trade the plan.” Success is impossible without disciplin

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Day trading is the buying and selling of stocks during the trading day by punters on their own account. The aim is to make a profit on the day and have no open positions at the close of the trading session.

 

You have described every thing in details about the basic and fundamentals of day trading. Do you know more than 90% of the retail day traders ends up in loses in evening? You are absolutely right that day trading is best suitable for institutional players such as Banks and hedge funds.

 

thanks for the information

 
james_smart:
You have described every thing in details about the basic and fundamentals of day trading. Do you know more than 90% of the retail day traders ends up in loses in evening?

What now not to trade at all?

 
james_smart:
Do you know more than 90% of the retail day traders ends up in loses in evening? .

Thats exactly why its worth doing. There's a never ending supply of weak players to be exploited.

 

open close trade

with same days ...

 

For me day trading is not jsut about closing and opening trade on the same day. Its about the mental attiotude you need to carry!

 

Day trading can be profitable,but you have to do your homework and understand the markets that you are going to trade,whether it is stocks,options and futures.It is is the buying and selling of stocks during the trading day by punters on their own account.There are two types of trading in the share market: One is Delivery based trading in which the customer based on the Company fundamentals, trade information etc will purchase.

 

Opening and closing a contract on same day. Day traders trade on very short term market movement.

 
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Opening and closing a contract on same day. Day traders trade on very short term market movement.

Thanks for explaining in simple words.

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