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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Day Trading


Is typically believed to be an excessive high risk profile job in stock market. There are a number of categories in day trading which day traders needs to examine and depends upon the situation he has to develop his day trading strategy. No moment in stock market is identical and very often the stock market tends to move in opposite direction rather than in the way the day trader are hoping to move, and this is a typical experience which every day traders go through so it is called a riskier job, but still day trading plays an eminent role in overall stock trading i.e. because with the good thing of day trading the stock market is capable to preserve adequate liquidity in the market and are able to preserve adequate volume for maximum of the stocks. Liquidity and volume are the main elements of stock trading, devoid of which it will be an intricate task for every investors in addition to traders and also to stock market to function in a good way.

Usually day trading is a course of action of executing either buying-and-selling or selling-and-buying of stocks in same trading session. Day trading is normally carry out by day trader who brings in enough liquidity and volume in overall stock market and it is one of the most important subparts of stock trading. Maximum of the peoples (excluding professional day traders who are very less in number) tend day trading as a gambling market like casino, poker or hoarse racing and does not follow the basic and most important rules of day trading and gamble away maximum of their money is day trading. Professional day traders do not treat day trading as a gambling place but instead they treats this profession as small business and are always capable to maintain their high profit margin. No doubt that day trading is very similar to a gambling place but if you reliance more on your knowledge and proper strategy along with tremendous discipline than you are more likely to be able to maintain your profit margin in significant way while doing day trading.

For doing day trading the day traders does not require to hold actual delivered stocks in their stock portfolio but instead they can burrow the stock for conducting day trading. In other words the stock broker where the day trader have registered themselves for conducting stock trading provides day traders a facility by which day trader can burrow the stocks and can do day trading. Also many of the stock brokers provide day traders with facility of burrowing money from them. If a day trader has minimum required amount of $25,000 for conducting day trading in NYSE and he wants to execute order for $100,000 than Broker provides him with additional money that is required for executing that order, due to this high lending money by the Broker to day traders, the day trader can make big deal in day trading by executing large quantity of stock, the higher the stock quantity high is the risk involved and low the quantity of stock, low is the risk involved and profit and losses are also in the same order.

Genuine day traders are very professional peoples and they do not enter in the market at anytime or in anyway but instead they wait for an appropriate entry point to jump into the market and exist in the same way maintaining their profit margin. Their entry point is pre planned i.e. they believe that if the stock is moving in the mode they crave than only they compose their mind to penetrate in the market or else they stay away from the market in anticipation of a clear entry point is exist so no matter in which way they want to do day trading i.e. short (selling) the stock in a anticipation that stock will go down and then covering the day trading position by buying the same stock or else buying the stock in a anticipation that stock will move up and covering the day trading position by selling the same stock.

There are various different categories in day trading such as the day trading can be implemented for only a few seconds or for a few minutes or for only a few hours within the same settlement day and this is done by different categories of day traders. Not all day traders apply the same rule but instead many of them have their own different strategies in place for doing day trading and that strategy is applied by day traders as the day trading stock situation arises. Many of these day traders had gained a substantial knowledge through books, guidance from stock gurus and through experience.

Any new beginner no matter he/she is young or old, male or female anticipating starting this exciting home based career of online day trading should need to gather substantial knowledge and experience. Before going to start investing any money in this field, the beginner should first need to start it by doing paperwork. Paperwork is very good strategy for a beginner who wants to do day trading. Assuming as you are investing your money in stock, you write down all your stock pick entry and exist point of day trading on a paper by which you will be able to learn a lot and with the help of this strategy you will be able to make out the mistake which you are doing...you need to continue this strategy for at least 3 to 6 months. Once you are sure you are going on right track then start trading a very small amount of money in day trading, once you have got that confidence and experience and comfortness than you will be able to make a good profit by doing day trading.

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