Sunday, 18 January 2015

Getting started on day trading

One of the very few luxuries the market offers is ‘time’. If you buy a stock today and it goes down tomorrow, you can still give it ‘time’ with a hope that it will bounce back. However, when you day trade, the luxury of time is taken away. Each day, the scores are settled. This makes day trading a very tough profession, with a need to be highly consistent and disciplined. Needless to say, if done right, it can be highly rewarding. If you are getting started on day trading, there are a few aspects that you need to bear in mind.
Set realistic expectations: Many traders live with a notion that they can double their money every month. Even if they manage to do this, they should attribute a large portion of the success to luck. The key to successful day trading is being consistent. Tone down your expectations. If you are generating 3-4 per cent return a month, you are doing a phenomenal job.
Stop speculating, start trading: Trading requires you to design a strategy. Every design has a valid reason behind it. If you cannot find that, then you are blindly speculating, which is a sure recipe for disaster. Typically, the valid reason should be a ‘trade signal’ from a trading strategy. The strategy can be as simple as a price volume breakout, moving average cross over or as complex as neural network algorithm. 

 

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