Most intraday trading decisions revolve around price movements. However, day traders aren’t all equally adept at analyzing and interpreting these movements. This is why most intraday traders depend on indicators to guide their decision making. Intraday trading requires a precise timing of buy or sel...
In order to make sure the new positions are closed when a stock is nearing (or has reached) its intraday high, day traders have to pay incredibly close attention to all of the price movements during trading hours. That means they need access to real-time charts. Short-term traders often ...
Intraday candlestick charts graphically depict the intraday high, low andof a given trading session. The box portion of the candle reveals the opening to closing range, with a white box indicating an upwardly trending day and a shaded box depicting a downtrend during the day. A line extending ...
All of this must be set up so that it is likely that within one day or a set trading time, the trade will make a profit. Unfortunately, in intraday trading and scalping in particular, this is very difficult to follow due to psychological contexts. More on this in the section on the ...
With a solid long-term investing strategy, you aren't going to double your money in a few months, and you probably won't be able to quit your job and live off of your profits anytime soon. But the results of long-term investing can still ...
The ability to back-test on quantifiable data is an epistemological paradigm shift in favor of the EA. Prior to that human traders either did not back-test their trading ideas or they attempted to do so in a very awkward fashion. Often they had to resort to the very crude and time-consu...
This is also known as intraday trading and, if it's done regularly, pattern day trading. Here's an example: A day trader identifies a pattern in a stock's price and buys 1,000 shares for $20 each. A few minutes later, the stock price moves up to $20.10 per sh...
The Securities and Exchange Commission makes it clear: Day trading is not investing. Investing involves afundamental analysis of stocksto determine good long-term prospects. Day traders, on the other hand, use expensive, state-of-the-art technology and technical analysis to spot intraday trends the...
Standard Chartered: Global Oil Demand Hit An All-Time High In August Momentum in oil markets has continued to skew towards the downside over the past two weeks, with the last 10 trading days seeing front-month Brent record seven lower settlements, eight lower intraday highs and six lower intra...
Why Is Intraday Trading So Hard? Intraday trading is so hard because there is constant movement in prices and the time frame of intraday trading is so short that any delays in action could cause losses. Additionally, sometimes what may have worked in the past may not work in the future giv...