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The biggest difference between them is that ETFs trade intraday at various prices during exchange hours and index mutual funds can be bought or sold only after the market closes each day, at a fund's net asset value.
Many day traders take on large and highlyleveragedpositions. For example, they might trade stocks and/oroptionsin amargin account. Some professionals day trade in thefutures markets, looking for short-term price movement instock indexes such as the S&P 500 or Nasdaq, orcommodities such as gold ...