any success with day trading?
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I have been successful overall with trades lasting a few weeks or months but shorter than that I haven't done well.  I generally don't make good decisions under pressure, in the stock market or anywhere else, so day trading doesn't fit my psychological profile.  But even if you work well under pressure, like an emergency-room doctor, that's no guarantee you can do well at day-trading.  If you want to try it, I'd strongly suggest you start with longer time frames and see how you react to different situations.\n\nWC Lewis' answer doesn't make sense and you can see from his questions that he's an impostor or a lunatic.
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I'm not sure what you mean so I will try to hit every possibility. If I could find a way to invest in a Forex trading company, much like people buy stock in stock brokers, I would probably do it. I think the FOREX market is goiing to become more and more popular among small traders and every time one of them trades the broker makes money off of the pip spread. At the same time, there have been some spectacular failures out there caused by corruption such as the now infamous Refco. \n\nAnother way to invest in Forex is to use a broker traded account, where you put up the money and the broker does the trading. I have never seen statistics on this, but would not trust my broker to make trades for me, but that's just me. I don't trust my auto mechanic either. \n\nAs for doing your own trading, I think it has great potential if your mindset is such that you make a good trader. I have friends who have made as much as $35,000 in a month trading Forex. I have others who have lost their entire trading account. It is a high risk game so unless you are either good at taking high risk and winning, or know how to always limit your risk, you will likely struggle with Forex trading. There are mathematical ways to limit your risk, but even these don't keep you from experiencing a gambler's ruin where every bet loses. Each month there is a broker who runs a contest for the best return among its clients. They often have 300-400% returns over the month. The broker rewards them with prizes, but what they don't say is how many people had a loss compared to winners. Forex is a zero-sum trading business, for every winner there is a loser. In the stock market it doesn't work that way. \n\nI traded actively for a couple of years and did not make any impressive amount of money over the long term. Sure I had days where I had incredible profits on trades that took only minutes. Other days I lost money just as fast. My strategy on Forex these days: I have been buying stock in Canadian and Latin American companies and am getting a good return. Not only are these good economies but as the American dollar falls they gain in value. Also, I no longer have to get up at 2 am to check the London market opening, or stay up all night watching my trades. \n\nTry a free demo account from one of the big Forex brokers. When you have doubled your money, and not until you have doubled it, open a real account with real money. That is the best way to find out if you can trade Forex. \n\nDon't spend money on fancy software that tells you when to trade. You can find the same trading signals without using the software and learn more about how the technical signals work. Join the Yahoo! Forex trading groups. Learn from others if you want to try it.
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firms that teach daytrading? they all suck.\n\nbrokerage firms that allow daytrading, that is a different story. check out barrons, smartmoney, wsj, kiplingers, money mag, gomez, they all do some ratings.
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regular way trading is settled t+3(trade date +3 business days). I believe intaday settlement can be done if specified in a cash account only on th same day
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funny!  You don't.  Day trading is VERY risky no matter how you do it.
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Have not tested this, but there is a currenty trading area, even a location to play an active game with it.\n\nGood luck.
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EAG is trading this morning. $1.54 last trade, has traded over 65000 shares this morning. Whatever broker you are using is a moron. The pennies you are saving from using a moron is costing you lots of aggravation and lost trading opportunity. There are lots of discounters out there...i would find another if i were you!
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You are talking about BLACK BOX SYSTEMS. They DO NOT WORK.\n\nIf you really want to be successful in forex trading, you must learn how to do it yourself. There is not one true way of trading. If there was a magic box that would just make money automatically then that box would essentially be worth infinite dollars right?\n\n\nPlease read:\n\nForex: Beware of Frauds\nhttp://www.forextradinghq.com/forex-information/forex-resources/forex-trading-information-beware-of-frauds.html
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Try the pinksheets.\n\nI would also look into Proxity as an option. ticker pdnw
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You can trade options on Ameritrade.\n\nAlso, I read a good book titled Options Made Easy. It helped me become a the current profitable options trader that I am. I am currently running a series on my blog about using options called 'creating investment cashflow'. I just wrote part I and will write the next two parts in a few weeks. The point is that you can easily be profitable on options and lower risk with a few principles. Mostly, I try to stay on the sell side of (short) options. Once I started doing that, my investment returns greatly increased, to 80-100% yearly. You may find it interesting. I try to explain step by step how to do it, but they are long reads.\n\nHere is the address: \nhttp://www.gmoolah.blogspot.com/
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$25,000 according to the SEC\nhttp://www.sec.gov/answers/daytrading.htm
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There are several platforms out there where you can do automated trading. This is very very difficult to do though. It is hard enough to make money trading while you are siting there watching. Anyway. I am pretty sure TradeStation will allow you to do this. It may take a little time to learn the programming language though.
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LEt me know.\nWhat is your monthly trading volume...\n\nHow about 1cent per 1 share..\nand pay as you go..\n\nLike for 100 sares you pay $1\nand so on..\n\n\nGirish\nkgirishraman@yahoo.com\n\n\nLearn Free Day Trading Online,Intraday Trading Course, Learn Day Trading Free.\nhttp://lansing.craigslist.org/fns/172121865.html
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Get in touch with your local Trading Standards there number should be in your Telephone directory. I work in retail and they have an obligation to supply to the customer. Without you they wouldnt be able to continue trade.
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Day trading is buying and selling of a particular stock many times throughout the day.  Throughout the day, a stock price may change due to several things, such as volume (others buying or selling).  Day traders try to take advantage of this by buying the stock on the low swings, and selling it on the high swings.  It usually takes a lot of money to do this in order to make it worth your while.  Day traders often do this with several stocks at once.  \n\nMost on line brokers require a minimum cash account of around ten thousand dollars for you to day trade.  I can't remember the rules exactly, but Ameritrade, considers day trading as buying or selling of the same stock within a couple days.  And if you have two or three instances of this, they classify you as a day trader.\n\nStock options are something that employers offer to make a job more desirable.  Usually offering company stock on top of their normal pay.  Having stock in a company you work for also makes you care more about your company.
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Hi Daniel,\n     The truth is most people end up loosing all their money within the first 60 days of investing in the Forex Market. I've tried many Forex programs, signals, robots, etc, and spent countless hours trying to study charts and read graphs, and the FreedomRocks trading system has turned out to be one of the only true money makers for me. If you interested in learning about the smart way to trade that takes the guesswork out of investing in the Forex check out www.smartforexinvestor.com  If you have any questions just let me know.\n\nBest Regards,\n\nYo Fujikawa\n1-800-670-2683
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I'm a trader myself and I successfully skim off a profit from market movements regularly for a living.\n\nOne of the books the other answerer mentioned was: One Up On Wall Street( By Peter Lynch) - A VERY GOOD BOOK if you are an investor but not a trader.\n\nI trade the forex markets as well as stocks. The only difference is that forex markets tend to move faster and are open 24 hours a day. \n\nThe successful and proven way of trading stocks is to formulate a trading plan and then stick to it. Don't let emotions rule your trade. Ride the trend - don't gamble against it. Use stop losses and the market is always right. Let your profits run and cut your losses\n\nThere is no secret to trading but greed for money usually kills off the amateur trader.