Day Trading

A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and lower peaks and the majority of bars should have lower lows and lower highs.

When a market is in consolidation (bracketing/flat) the price will generally oscillate in a broad range. Traders who are watching for the breakout will monitor the security for a qualified break. They may place a straddle traded to catch the move regardless of whether it breaks up or down.

There are traders who specialize in trading consolidation. I don’t however recommend it to new traders simply because they get whipsawed too much.

Reading Gary Smiths book “How I trade for a living”, I came across a reference to an interview with Donald Sliter, a top S&P floor trader. When asked about his day trading strategies he had replied that it is a matter of understanding strength and weakness. When asked to expand on that, he said, “I scalp to the short side if we are trading weak to the Dow. I scalp to the long side if we’re trading strong to the Dow.” The interviewers were amazed that one of the biggest traders in the S&P pit had such a simple day trading strategy.

For me, this reinforces the idea that as an active day trader of the futures market, it is not about developing complex, high probability day trading strategies; it is about having simple, logical, high frequency strategies that give an edge. There are different approaches to creating an edge in trading. One that I like is to have a technique for determining the trend of the market and then looking for opportunities in line with the trend. One of the problems of trading trend following day trading strategies is that they generate frequent losses in non-trending markets. One way to mitigate this problem is to not trade the signals from your trend following day trading strategy, but use them as a filter for your trades.

Lets say you use a moving average (or any other trend identification approach) to measure trends; instead of buying the market when it crosses the moving average, see it as a signal to look for buying opportunities. So your day trading strategy is to be a buyer when the market is above the moving average and a seller when the market is below the moving average. You can then use any number of techniques for generating entry signals in line with the identified trend. If, for example, you are a fan of RSI or any other oscillator, use that as your entry signal, but only take signals in line with the trend as you see it.

When the market is trending, your trend following technique will keep you on the right side of the market and your entry signal is likely to produce multiple successful trades. When the market is range bound, you will still have the opportunity to trade profitably because you won’t be trading every breakout, you will be naturally drawn to buying dips and selling rallies (in line with your trend strategy signals).

Martin Chandra

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Beginner Day Online Trading

Real Time Data

In order to successfully day trade you must have access to real-time market data. Relying on stale information will result in poor trades.

Day trading is the practice of buying or selling throughout the day, but completely out of the market by the close of the trading day.

Skills and Training

As a career, day trading attracts individuals from many walks of life. Because it is stressful, day traders must be self-disciplined, confident, and patient; they must also have the ability to accept losses, learn from their mistakes and quickly move forward.

Seminars, books, college courses, and Internet-based tutorials all offer the opportunity to learn what you need to know to become a successful day traderfor a price. And the learning never stops. You have to keep up to date on market trends, emerging technologies, and learn new methodologies continually to stay ahead of the game.

Getting Started

As a beginner online trader, as a minimum, you will need a computer, a reliable and fast Internet connection, access to real-time data, an account with a brokerage service, and funds to open a broker account. Never trade with funds you cannot afford to lose. Before jumping into the day trading milieu it is advisable to practice by paper trading. Paper trading simply means virtual or simulated trading. You can find paper trading websites on the Internet that will let you hone your trading skills and get a feel for the tools and methods used by day traders before you invest your cash.

Paper trading is useless if you are not simulating real-life day trading as much as possible. For this reason you should try to approach paper trading as if you were committing real money. This involves setting up a plan dealing with such items as:

- entry & exit points
- stop loss limits
- profit targets
- your desired risk/reward profile
- amount of capital to be committed to trades

How long should you paper trade before commencing to “real-life” day trade. There is no set rule in this regard. You should continue paper trading until you become completely comfortable with the trading system and confident in your ability to use such techniques as “buy/sell orders” and “stops”.

It is important to note that success in paper trading does not ensure success when trading in the real market. Many have observed that it is generally easier to profit in a paper trading environment than in the real markets – in large part because emotions tend to cloud trading judgments when real money is at risk. Nevertheless, the proper use of paper trading can be a very useful tool to increase your likelihood of success (or limit your losses) when you begin trading for real.

Most successful day traders are those that have a system or method and stick to it over and over and over. There is no “magic formula” that will result in fantastic results. Most day traders that I know, plan their trades around a theory or method they have faith in and continue this process over and over.As a beginner day online trader, you will want to use a really simple strategy or method to trade. Matching a method of trading with your personality is the only way you will ever feel comfortable in the markets.

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Linda Wainman
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If you are interested in online stock trading or other avenues of online trading than buying and selling options are a good place to begin. Options trading has proven to be possibly the most versatile and affordable of all online trading investments. Thy cost less than stocks and provide a high leverage approach to online trading that can limit the risk of loss.

Buying options is sort of like purchasing an insurance policy for your investment. When you buy options you are under no obligation to actually buy or sell the underlying instrument. You just possess the right to do so. For example, suppose you are interested in buying a car from your neighbor, but you don’t have the immediate cash to do so. Therefore, you offer your neighbor $200 for the option to buy the car for $1500 in 6 weeks. During the 6 weeks, the neighbor can’t sell the car to anyone else. However, during that time, you learn that the car will need a new engine and that the neighbor is not going to put a new one in. With this new disclosure, when the 6 weeks are up, you choose not to exercise your right to purchase the car. You are out of $200, but you also avoid buying a car that would have ended up costing you a lot more in repairs in the future. In the same way, options trading, allows you ample time to investigate the market before you exercise your option to buy. You don’t get that same luxury when buying stocks.

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TDAmeritrade or Scottrade. TDAmeritrade has quicker execution times.

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If you look at the amount of day trading systems and methods on the web you would think there would be a lot of people making a lot of money.

The fact however is day trading methods don’t work and day trading is NOT a way to make profits, its a way to wipe your trading equity out quickly.

If you want to know why you wont win read the facts

Firstly, I have been involved in financial trading for 20 years and never seen a day trader with a track record of consistent profits.

When you buy a method from a vendor they normally try and persuade you with a few testimonials of odd winners (day traders sometimes get lucky ) or a hypothetical track record of great gains.

Let me explain what a hypothetical track record is. It’s a record made in hindsight knowing the closing prices so it’s hardly surprising you never see one that losses.

Ask anyone selling a day trading, method for the real time track record over the long term and you won’t get one, simply because day trading doesn’t make money.

Lets look at why.

1. Time Frame is to short

The time frame is simply to short. You cannot predict what will happen in a single day and prices could go anywhere. You may as well flip a coin.

2. Volatility in short time frames

Again is random.

Day traders like to place fairly tight stops and normally they get taken out by volatility.

3. You need to run profits

Part of successful trading is to “ Run your profits and cut your losses”

In day trading methods you certainly can cut your losses ( and you will have a lot of them) but running profits is totally alien to day traders.

They normally want to scalp the trade for small profits and get out quickly.

The net result is they have a few profits that are marginal and never make up for the huge amount of losses they take.

The reality is:

Currency markets reflect long term economic conditions and trend longer term.

Each day trillions of dollars are traded in the markets and to try and predict price direction and volatility in a day, or a few hours is not going to work.

The real test of any trading method (not just a day trading method) is if it makes profits over the longer term.

As we said earlier ask anyone selling a day trading method for a profitable real time track record and you wont get one.

Sacha Tarkovsky
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