Monday, September 3, 2007

Day Trading 101

Trading, business and the financial market is a big, complex world. There’s foreign exchange, currency trading, and even day trading. And perhaps, it is day trading that needs more than just a simple mention in the book, for one, foreign exchange and currency trading are relatively easy to understand, day trading is a whole new concept.

Simply put, day trading is the buying and selling of financial investments and securities within the same trading day. These financial investments and securities would include stocks, stock options, currencies, and contracts like equity index futures and commodity futures. As opposed to swing trading where the stocks are held for a couple more days, the stocks in day trading are held only for the duration of the trading day.

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