Methods of day trading

Joey Spencer

Trend following and range trading methods of day trading

2013 Day trading is not averse to risk since the positions of buy and sell have to hold within one day itself and the investor does not get a very long time to analyze and study the market over a large period of time.

The knowledge and the precision is extremely important for investors, especially in day trading when the market sentiment is speculator and people or rather speculative investors are trying to get in the market to earn and generate instant and large amount of

Day trading is not averse to risk since the positions of buy and sell have to hold within one day itself and the investor does not get a very long time to analyze and study the market over a large period of time. The knowledge and the precision is extremely important for investors, especially in day trading when the market sentiment is speculator and people or rather speculative investors are trying to get in the market to earn and generate instant and large amount of profits.

The various financial securities which are available in the financial markets can be traded under the method of day trading. These securities include stocks, stock options, currencies, future contracts like equity index futures, interest rate futures and commodity futures.

The day trading is a financial method of investing in the market where both the buying and selling positions are held in the course of the same day. This means that if one person has bought a certain financial security in a particular day then before the market closes for the end of the day the investor or speculator will also sell that security on that very same day.

As the name suggests trend following is the phenomenon where the investor or the day trader will be studying and analyzing the past trends of how the market has fared in the recent times and also study, as much as he or she can, the current day’s market so that his or her’s buy decision can be valid enough to meet the market requirements which will help him to gain the profits for which he has entered the day trading market.

Range Trading on the other hand is a way in day trading where the day trader or investor will study the market and pre decide the entire buy and sell range through which he will operate in the market.

The day trader will make the range so that he or she does not waiver very far from the range and thus this curbs the very high risk of the day trader facing large amount of losses in this day trading market.

The main reason for the gaining popularity of the day trading method is because of the increase in the digitization of the entire trading system and process. The people do not have to visit the market personally for

under going through the entire buy and sell process. The decisions on the pricing and which stock to buy and sell how much to sell etc have to be taken within a very short span of time and an experienced day trader will definitely be able to gauge the market well and thus end up earning good profits for him or herself in the trade result at the end of the day.

The advent of de mat accounts and several features being offered under the online trading systems of various financial firms has made it easy and convenient for the home traders especially since the task of visiting the market themselves has now been removed from the process.