By Taro Hideyoshi
At first, the professional day traders are persons who trade in the provided trading room of brokerage firms. They have right amount of training and experience.
As the revolution of technology, traders can now trade remotely from their homes. Every brokerage firm provides direct access and electronic execution equipments that allows traders to have the same level of execution access as if they are in trading floors.
Therefore there are many new comers enter the trading without proper training or any experience. I write this article intend provide information in day trading for those who want to join day trading business.
The simple definition of day trading is you end each day flat. It means you go home without any open position at the end of each trading session.
To be a successful day traders, you must be able to maintain a proper psychology, mental attitude and focus. In addition, you must have sound money management strategies and keep developing knowledge of the market.
One of the most important things for day traders is you must understand the risks involved in day trading.
Generally, traders who buy securities on margin do not fully understand the risks involved. Traders who open a position in volatile market buy putting up an initial margin payment may find themselves being called for margin to keep their margin at maintenance margin level if the price does not go in their desired direction. This is where amateur day traders run into problem. If they cannot maintain their margin level, they will be forced to cover their position.
To succeed at day trading, you have to take no position home overnight at the end of each trading day. If you stick with this discipline, you avoid the overnight risks. The day trading is limited by time and the average range of traded price. Therefore you have to be in the position that can control your risk and the size of your losses. It is the key of success in trading.
Typically, the average size of a day trader’s profit will be smaller than other styles of traders. It is because of the limitation of time and range as I mentioned. So, the most important things you must manage to be a winner in day trading business are to minimize the size of your loss and maximize the profit on each trade. And you have to do this as many times as you can.
About the Author
Taro is an experience trader who trades in stocks, futures, forex. He strongly focuses on technical analysis, trading systems and money management.
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