Day trade

How to Be a Day Trader. What is Day Trading? Day trading is traditionally defined as buying and selling stock, options, or commodities during the same trading day and be have your positions closed by the end of the trading session. In the past, day trading had been reserved for financial companies and professional investors. A large percentage of day traders work for investment firms or are specialists in fund management. With the advance of technology, day trading has continue to grow among the casual trader working from home. The History of Day Trading. Before day trading, if someone wanted to trade a stock, they needed to call a stock broker to place their order, who would then route the order through a specialist on the floor of the exchange.

The specialist would match the buyer with a seller and write up a physical ticket that would transfer the stock and send that confirmation back to both brokers. Commissions were charged at a flat rate of 1% of the total amount of the trade. That means that to buy $10,000 worth of stock, it would cost you an additional $100 in commissions. In 1975, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) made fixed commission rates illegal opening up the markets to the first of the discount brokers competing for business by lowering their commissions and making short term trading much more profitable. Day Trading Strategies. The following are basic strategies used by day traders. Some of these strategies require short selling stocks instead of buying them long.

There are a few challenges to short selling stock which include your broker not having shares which you can short or the stock might be restricted from being shorted on that exchange. Trend Trading is a strategy where it is believed that a stock that is rising will continue to rise, or a stock that is falling will continue to fall. You enter the trade in the direction of the trend and exit once the price breaks this trend. Trend trading usually incorporates the use of trend and supportresistance lines. Click here for more information on Trend Trading.

This strategy assumes that prices that have been rising or falling at a high rate of momentum will reverse and start going to opposite direction. The basic idea is that you are trading in the opposite direction as the masses. Click here to learn more about contrarian trading strategies. Channel or Range Trading. Range trading is a strategy that assumes a stockЂ™s price will continue to trade inside of a price range or channel. Traders using this strategy will buy long when the price is at the lower end of the channel and sell short when prices are at the upper end of the price range.

Click here for more information on range trading. This trading strategy used to be defined as spread trading where you would take profits where small gaps expanded and contracted between the bid and the ask price for a stock. This strategy has now evolved to include technical indicators, supportresistance levels, and volume spikes to make round-trip trades lasting seconds to a few minutes. The basic idea of scalping is to take advantage of market inefficiencies using speed and high trading volume to create quick profits.

Click here for more information on scalping. Trading Rumors and News Events. This strategy is mostly only done by day traders. It requires that you have access to one to several real-time news sources and can make split second decisions. News and rumors can provide large amounts of volatility and high emotion creating great opportunities if traded properly.

The biggest challenge of trading this strategy is anticipating the marketЂ™s reaction to the news and how it effects the price of the stock. Click here for more information on trading news and rumors. Risk versus Reward. Due to the increased leverage and quick returns, day trading can be extremely profitable. The downside is that if done incorrectly, it can also be extremely unprofitable. Due to the high volatility of day trading, some people have labeled Day Traders as gamblers or adrenaline junkies.

However, many people make a very consistent and comfortable living from day trading. Some even make millions of dollars each year. Buying on margin can greatly increase your gains or losses. Brokerages usually allow a bigger margin percentage for a day trading account but reduce the amount of margin available for positions held overnight. Normally a day trading account must have a minimum of $25,000 and can buy on margin at a rate of 4 to 1 giving you $100,000 in buying power, which is called day trader buying power.

That number drops to 2 to 1 for positions held overnight, which can be called overnight margin buying power. That means that if you have 100% of your margin being used during the day, you must exit at least half of your positions before the close of the trading day. Your account will be designated as Ђњday trader statusЂќ if you have 3 round trip trades (one round trip = an opening and closing transaction), in a rolling 5 business day period. If you have 4 round trip trades in a 5 day period, you will be restricted from day trading for 90 days. Your brokerage firm will probably allow you to buy a stock and hold it overnight before closing the position. If you have a second day trade violation, your account will either be restricted from trading or you can request your account be a non day trader status account and buy and then sell after 3 business days. This depends upon the specific brokerage firms rules for some of these details but they are getting very strict with enforcing these rules.

Day-Trading Margin Requirements Know the Rules. We issued this investor guidance to provide some basic information about day trading margin requirements and to respond to frequently asked questions. We also encourage you to read our Notice to Members and Federal Register notice about the rules. Summary of the Day-Trading Margin Requirements. The rules adopt the term "pattern day trader," which includes any margin customer that day trades (buys then sells or sells short then buys the same security on the same day) four or more times in five business days, provided the number of day trades are more than six percent of the customer's total trading activity for that same five-day period. Under the rules, a pattern day trader must maintain minimum equity of $25,000 on any day that the customer day trades. The required minimum equity must be in the account prior to any day-trading activities.

If the account falls below the $25,000 requirement, the pattern day trader will not be permitted to day trade until the account is restored to the $25,000 minimum equity level. The rules permit a pattern day trader to trade up to four times the maintenance margin excess in the account as of the close of business of the previous day. If a pattern day trader exceeds the day-trading buying power limitation, the firm will issue a day-trading margin call to the pattern day trader. The pattern day trader will then have, at most, five business days to deposit funds to meet this day-trading margin call. Until the margin call is met, the day-trading account will be restricted to day-trading buying power of only two times maintenance margin excess based on the customer's daily total trading commitment.

If the day-trading margin call is not met by the fifth business day, the account will be further restricted to trading only on a cash available basis for 90 days or until the call is met. In addition, the rules require that any funds used to meet the day-trading minimum equity requirement or to meet any day-trading margin calls remain in the pattern day trader's account for two business days following the close of business on any day when the deposit is required. The rules also prohibit the use of cross-guarantees to meet any of the day-trading margin requirements. Frequently Asked Questions. The primary purpose of the day-trading margin rules is to require that certain levels of equity be deposited and maintained in day-trading accounts, and that these levels be sufficient to support the risks associated with day-trading activities. It was determined that the prior day-trading margin rules did not adequately address the risks inherent in certain patterns of day trading and had encouraged practices, such as the use of cross-guarantees, that did not require customers to demonstrate actual financial ability to engage in day trading. Most margin requirements are calculated based on a customer's securities positions at the end of the trading day.

A customer who only day trades does not have a security position at the end of the day upon which a margin calculation would otherwise result in a margin call. Nevertheless, the same customer has generated financial risk throughout the day. The day-trading margin rules address this risk by imposing a margin requirement for day trading that is calculated based on a day trader's largest open position (in dollars) during the day, rather than on his or her open positions at the end of the day. Were investors given an opportunity to comment on the rules? The rules were approved by the NASD Regulation Board of Directors and then filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On February 18, 2000, the SEC published NASD's proposed rules for comment in the Federal Register. The SEC also published for comment substantially similar rule changes that were proposed by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

The SEC received over 250 comment letters in response to the publication of these rule changes. Both the NASD and NYSE filed with the SEC written responses to these comment letters. On February 27, 2001, the SEC approved both the NASD and NYSE day-trading margin rules.

As noted above, the NASD rules became operational on September 28, 2001. Day trading refers to buying then selling or selling short then buying the same security on the same day. Just purchasing a security, without selling it later that same day, would not be considered a day trade. Does the rule affect short sales? As with current margin rules, all short sales must be done in a margin account. If you sell short and then buy to cover on the same day, it is considered a day trade. Does the rule apply to day-trading options?

Yes. The day-trading margin rule applies to day trading in any security, including options. What is a pattern day trader? You will be considered a pattern day trader if you trade four or more times in five business days and your day-trading activities are greater than six percent of your total trading activity for that same five-day period.

Your brokerage firm also may designate you as a pattern day trader if it knows or has a reasonable basis to believe that you are a pattern day trader. For example, if the firm provided day-trading training to you before opening your account, it could designate you as a pattern day trader. Would I still be considered a pattern day trader if I engage in four or more day trades in one week, then refrain from day trading the next week?

In general, once your account has been coded as a pattern day trader, the firm will continue to regard you as a pattern day trader even if you do not day trade for a five-day period. This is because the firm will have a "reasonable belief" that you are a pattern day trader based on your prior trading activities. However, we understand that you may change your trading strategy. You should contact your firm if you have decided to reduce or cease your day trading activities to discuss the appropriate coding of your account. Day-Trading Minimum Equity Requirement.

What is the minimum equity requirement for a pattern day trader? The minimum equity requirements on any day in which you trade is $25,000. The required $25,000 must be deposited in the account prior to any day-trading activities and must be maintained at all times. Why is the minimum equity requirement for pattern day traders higher than the current minimum equity requirement of $2,000? The minimum equity requirement of $2,000 was established in 1974, before the technology existed to allow for electronic day trading by the retail investor. As a result, the $2,000 minimum equity requirement was not created to apply to day-trading activities Rather, the $2,000 minimum equity requirement was developed for the buy-and-hold investor who retained securities collateral in hisher account, where the securities collateral was (and still is) subject to a 25 percent regulatory maintenance margin requirement for long equity securities.

This collateral could be sold out if the securities declined substantially in value and were subject to a margin call. The typical day trader, however, is flat at the end of the day (i. e., he is neither long nor short securities). Therefore, there is no collateral for the brokerage firm to sell out to meet margin requirements and collateral must be obtained by other means. Accordingly, the higher minimum equity requirement for day trading provides the brokerage firm a cushion to meet any deficiencies in the account resulting from day trading. How was the $25,000 requirement determined? The credit arrangements for day-trading margin accounts involve two parties -- the brokerage firm processing the trades and the customer.

The brokerage firm is the lender and the customer is the borrower. In determining whether the existing $2,000 minimum equity requirement was sufficient for the additional risks incurred with day trading, we obtained input from a number of brokerage firms, since these are the entities extending the credit. The majority of firms felt that in order to take on the increased intra-day risk associated with day trading, they wanted a $25,000 "cushion" in each account in which day trading occurred. In fact, firms are free to impose a higher equity requirement than the minimum specified in the rules, and many of them already had imposed a $25,000 requirement on day-trading accounts before the day-trading margin rules were revised. Does the $25,000 minimum equity requirement have to be 100 percent cash or could it be a combination of cash and securities? You can meet the $25,000 minimum equity requirement with a combination of cash and eligible securities.

Can I cross-guarantee my accounts to meet the minimum equity requirement? No, you can't use a cross-guarantee to meet any of the day-trading margin requirements. Each day-trading account is required to meet the minimum equity requirement independently, using only the financial resources available in the account. What happens if the equity in my account falls below the minimum equity requirement? If the account falls below the $25,000 requirement, you will not be permitted to day trade until you deposit cash or securities in the account to restore the account to the $25,000 minimum equity level. I'm always flat at the end of the day.

Why do I have to fund my account at all? Why can't I just trade stocks, have the brokerage firm mail me a check for my profits or, if I lose money, I'll mail the firm a check for my losses? This would in effect be a 100 percent loan to you to purchase equity securities. It is saying you should be able to trade solely on the firm's money without putting up any of your own funds.

This type of activity is prohibited, as it would put your firm (and indeed the U. S. securities industry) at substantial risk. Why can't I leave my $25,000 in my bank? The money must be in the brokerage account because that is where the trading and risk is occurring. These funds are required to support the risks associated with day-trading activities. It is important to note that the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) may protect up to $500,000 for each customer's securities account, with a limitation of $250,000 in claims for cash.

What is my day-trading buying power under the rules? You can trade up to four times your maintenance margin excess as of the close of business of the previous day. It is important to note that your firm may impose a higher minimum equity requirement andor may restrict your trading to less than four times the day trader's maintenance margin excess. You should contact your brokerage firm to obtain more information on whether it imposes more stringent margin requirements. What if I exceed my day-trading buying power?

If you exceed your day-trading buying power limitations, your brokerage firm will issue a day-trading margin call to you. You will have, at most, five business days to deposit funds to meet this day-trading margin call. Until the margin call is met, your day-trading account will be restricted to day-trading buying power of only two times maintenance margin excess based on your daily total trading commitment. If the day-trading margin call is not met by the fifth business day, the account will be further restricted to trading only on a cash available basis for 90 days or until the call is met.

Does this rule change apply to cash accounts? Day trading in a cash account is generally prohibited. Day trades can occur in a cash account only to the extent the trades do not violate the free-riding prohibition of Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T. In general, failing to pay for a security before you sell the security in a cash account violates the free-riding prohibition. If you free-ride, your broker is required to place a 90-day freeze on the account. Does this rule apply only if I use leverage?

No, the rule applies to all day trades, whether you use leverage (margin) or not. For example, many options contracts require that you pay for the option in full. As such, there is no leverage used to purchase the options. Nonetheless, if you engage in numerous options transactions during the day you are still subject to intra-day risk. You may not be able to realize the profit on the transaction that you had hoped for and may indeed incur substantial loss due to a pattern of day-trading options.

Again, the day-trading margin rule is designed to require that funds be in the account where the trading and risk is occurring. Can I withdraw funds that I use to meet the minimum equity requirement or day-trading margin call immediately after they are deposited? No, any funds used to meet the day-trading minimum equity requirement or to meet any day-trading margin calls must remain in your account for two business days following the close of business on any day when the deposit is required. How would you like to start trading with certainty towards the financial freedom you’ve always wanted? Select what trading level you are at now below to move forward.

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Day Trading Strategies for Beginners. Day trading – the act of buying and selling a financial instrument within the same day, or even multiple times over the course of a day, taking advantage of small price moves – can be a lucrative game. But it can also be a dangerous game for those who are new at it or who don't adhere to a well-thought out method. Let's take a look at some general day trading principles and common day trading strategies, moving along from basic tips you need to know to advanced strategies that can help you learn how to day trade like a pro. [If you're looking for a more in-depth option, Investopedia Academy has a three hour video course taught by a 30-year veteran of the industry.] Day Trading Tips You Need to Know.

Not just knowledge of basic trading procedures, but of the latest stock market news and events that affect stocks – the Fed's plans for interest rates, the economic outlook, etc. Do your homework make a wish list of stocks you'd like to trade, keep yourself informed about the selected companies and general markets, scan a business newspaper and visit reliable financial websites on a regular basis. Assess how much capital you're willing to risk on each trade (most successful day traders risk less than 1-2% of their account per trade). Set aside a surplus amount of funds that you can trade with and are prepared to lose (which may not happen) while keeping money for your basic living, expenses, etc. Day trading requires your time – most of your day, in fact. Don’t consider it as an option if you have limited hours to spare.

The process requires a trader to track the markets and spot opportunities, which can arise any time during the trading hours. Moving fast is key. As a beginner, it is advisable to focus on a maximum of one to two stocks during a day trading session.

With just a few stocks, tracking and finding opportunities is easier. Of course, you're looking for deals and low prices. But keep away from penny stocks.

These stocks are highly illiquid and chances of hitting a jackpot are often bleak. Many orders placed by investors and traders begin to execute as soon as the markets open in the morning, contributing to price volatility. A seasoned player may be able to recognize patterns and pick appropriately to make profits. But as a newbie, it is better to just read the market without making any moves for the first 15-20 minutes. The middle hours are usually less volatile while the movement begins to pick up towards the closing bell. Though the rush hours offer opportunities, it’s safer for beginners to avoid them at first. 7) Cut Losses with Limit Orders.

Decide what type of orders you will use to enter and exit trades. Will you use market orders or limit orders? When you place a market order, it is executed at the best price available at the time thus, no “price guarantee.” A limit order, meanwhile, does guarantee the price, but not the execution. Limit orders help you trade with more precision wherein you set your price (not unrealistic but executable) for buying as well as selling. 8) Be Realistic About Profits. A strategy doesn't need to win all the time to be profitable.

Many traders only win 50% to 60% of their trades. The point is, they make more on their winners than they lose on their losers. Make sure that the risk on each trade is limited to a specific percentage of the account, and that entry and exit methods are clearly defined and written down. There are times when the stock markets test your nerves. As a day trader you need to learn to keep greed, hope and fear at bay.

Decisions should be governed by logic and not emotion. Successful traders have to move fast – but they don't have to think fast. Why? Because they've developed a trading strategy in advance, along with the discipline to hold to that strategy.

In fact, it is far more important to follow your formula closely than to try to chase profits. There's a mantra among day-traders "Plan your trades, then trade your plan." Day Trading Like a Pro Deciding What to Buy. Day traders seek to make money by exploiting minute price movements in individual assets (usually stocks, though currencies, futures and options are traded as well), usually leveraging large amounts of capital to do so. In deciding what to focus on – in a stock, say – a typical day trader looks for three things liquidity, volatility and trading volume. Liquidity allows you to enter and exit a stock at a good price (i. e. tight spreads, or the difference between the bid and ask price of a stock, and low slippage, or the difference between the expected price of a trade and the actual price).

Volatility is simply a measure of the expected daily price range—the range in which a day trader operates. More volatility means greater profit or loss. Trading volume is a measure of how many times a stock is bought and sold in a given time period (most commonly, within a day of trading, known as the average daily trading volume - ADTV). A high degree of volume indicates a lot of interest in a stock.

Often, an increase in the volume of a stock is a harbinger of a price jump, either up or down. Once you know what kinds of stocks (or other asset) you are looking for, you need to learn how to identify entry points – that is, at what precise moment you're going to invest. There are three tools you can use to do this Real-time news services. News moves stocks subscribing to such services tell you when potentially market-shaking news comes out. ECN Level 2 quotes . ECNs are computer-based systems that display the best available bid and ask quotes from multiple market participants, and then automatically match and execute orders. Level 2 is a subscription-based service that provides real-time access to the NASDAQ order book composed of price quotes from market makers registered in every NASDAQ-listed and OTC Bulletin Board securities.

Together, they can give you a sense of orders being executed in real time. Intraday candlestick charts. Candles provide a raw analysis of price action. (More on these later.) Day Trading Like a Pro Deciding When to Sell.

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Day trading is a strategy that buys and sells investments daily. Investors used to the &ldquobuy and hold&rdquo approach must learn to shorten the time they keep investments. It's often a matter of hours between buying and selling.

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If you don't want an office of your own, visit our Day Trader Jobs page, complete the form, and we'll forward your information to the nearest Day Trade the World trading floor manager. Day trading Strategies and risks. Day trading involves buying and selling a stock, ETF or other financial instrument within the same day and closing the position before the end of the trading day. Years ago, day trading was primarily the province of professional traders at banks or investment firms. With the advent of electronic trading, day trading has become increasingly popular with individual investors.

While day trading can be profitable, it is risky, time-consuming, and stressful. The majority of non-professional traders who attempt to day trade are not successful over the long term. Success requires dedication, discipline, and strict money management controls. Day traders use a variety of strategies. Most common strategies are simply time-compressed versions of traditional technical trading strategies, such as trend following, range trading, and reversals. In recent years, trading technology has evolved to the point where some individual day traders may place dozens or even hundreds of trades per day in an attempt to capture a large number of small profits, through techniques such as scalping or rebate trading.

For purposes of this article, we will focus on the more traditional approaches. In the parlance of day trading, a breakout occurs when a stock or ETF has surged above a significant area of price resistance. The breakout could occur above a consolidation point or above a downtrend line.

A breakout can also occur on the downside. In that case, the instrument falls below a significant area of support, which can be either a consolidation point or below an uptrend line. When an upside breakout occurs, breaking resistance, it’s important to look at the level of trading volume. If the breakout occurred on a surge of volume, the odds are better that the breakout will remain intact and price will not fall below the previously broken resistance area. The question that day traders constantly face is whether to aggressively “chase” a breakout and get into the market quickly or wait for the price of the stock or ETF to retreat a bit and confirm the breakout. A number of factors can come into play in making that decision, including the underlying fundamental catalyst for the breakout the medium and long-term trend direction of the instrument the behavior of other related markets and the trading volume attendant to the breakout.

To the degree these factors support the breakout, it’s more likely that prices will surge significantly higher and the trader may then be justified in aggressively chasing the breakout. One of the chief tenets of technical analysis is that a prior area of resistance becomes the new level of support after the resistance is broken. Thus, in the case where a breakout is not supported strongly by the factors described above, a time-honored strategy is to place a buy order just above the breakout point and place a stop-loss just below the broken resistance line. The idea is that price will retreat, confirm the new support level, and then move higher again.

A pullback entry is based on the concept of finding a stock or ETF that has a clearly established trend, and then waiting for the first retracement (pullback) down to support of either its primary uptrend line or moving average to get into the market. For day trading purposes, a trader may identify a stock or ETF that has shown a good deal of upside strength in past several trading days. The idea is then to jump into the market after the market retreats to a support level. With pullback trading it’s critical to ensure that a clearly defined trend is already in place. Otherwise, you risk entering the trade too early.

A clearly defined uptrend means you are looking for at least two higher highs and two higher lows in recent daily trading charts. A clearly defined downtrend would be two lower lows and two lower highs. That’s the minimum requirement.

A key point to remember here is the basic rule of trend trading the longer a trend has been intact, the more likely the established trend will continue in the same direction. If a stock or ETF has been steadily tending higher for several weeks, the odds are much greater that it will continue higher as opposed to a market that has been trending higher for only a few days. It’s understandable to resist entering a long-established trend. You may look at the price chart and sense that “you’re too late to the party” and the trend is about to end. While that reaction is completely understandable, it is often wrong.

Here’s why When institutions start buying ETFs or stocks, they typically continue to invest until the trend ends andor the next promising idea comes along. Thus, there is typically a good deal of buying interest at support areas in any clearly defined trend. Risks of day trading. Many day traders trade on margin that is provided to them by their brokerage firm. Margin is essentially a loan to the investor and it is the decision of the broker whether to provide margin to any individual investor. Brokers are mandated by law to require day traders have $25,000 in their accounts at all times. If the investors account falls below $25,000 the investor has five business days to replenish the account.

If the investor fails to replenish the account, he or she will be forced to trade on a cash-available basis for the next 90 days and may be restricted from day trading. Even if the investor is not utilizing margin, the $25,000 account minimum applies. If you trade four or more times in five business days, and if the value of those trades is more than 6% of that periods total trading activity, the investor will be identified as a “pattern” day trader under FINRA Rule 4210. Thereupon, the investor is required to maintain a $25,000 account minimum, or face restrictions on trading. Margin trading entails greater risk, including but not limited to risk of loss and incurrence of margin interest debt, and is not suitable for all investors. Please assess your financial circumstances and risk tolerance prior to trading on margin. Again, day trading is very difficult and if you decide to play the game, you’ll be competing against professional traders.

It’s important that you educate yourself, find a method that you’re comfortable with and can implement consistently, adhere to strict money management rules, and be prepared for the inevitable ups and downs that all day traders experience. Learning How To Day Trade Project. Learning how to day trade is a decision that many people make to live their dream of having complete freedom in terms of time, money, and location.

Whether you’re looking to improve a current day trading strategy, improve consistency, or decrease dependence on indicators and software, we will demonstrate what sets Day Trading Academy (DTA) apart based on our Learning How To Day Trade (LTD) Project. With a combined 50+ years of experience in the industry, our Master Traders and DTA are in a unique position to assist you in achieving your goals and financial independence. For some, it’s the freedom to spend time with their family for others, it’s not having a boss to report to, or working 12 hours a day doing something they don’t enjoy. Trading not only offers a flexible job, but a flexible lifestyle as well.

Our unique trading community has one goal, to teach how the market works in order to be able to rely on yourself and not companies or other individuals . There are a lot of programs and software out there and unfortunately, most of them don’t teach exactly how to understand the market. Many programs sell indicators or software to require us to rely on them to be able to trade. We know because this happened to many of us when we first started training. The concept at DTA is to teach you how the market works so you can rely on yourself to make a great living day trading. That means we aren’t going to try to sell software that you really don’t need, or indicators that you don’t have to use.

Feel free to sign up for the email newsletter below to start your new day trading career. We will send you a new day trading guide we are working on, the three secrets to becoming a professional trader, and you will also be invited to exclusive live market presentation that we will be running next week! Just enter your first name and email below and hit “Let’s Get Started” Everybody can do Day Trading. If there’s one thing that we have learned about day trading, it’s that this is something that anyone can do. A college education or an understanding of stocks is not needed to begin and learn how to trade.

We will provide you with all the information and support required to succeed. The curriculum is split into four sections beginner, intermediate, advanced, and pro. We take beginners from not knowing anything about day trading to being masters of the markets. We can also take experienced traders that are still looking for consistency, and teach them concepts they may have otherwise not known about. We go from simple concepts with technical analysis like support and resistance areas, trend lines, price action, to more advanced concepts like trading psychology, emotional intelligence, and high probability trades with at least a 21 reward vs risk.

The first part of the curriculum is 19 chapters long. The intermediate section is where one learns how to take more advanced setups, learning how to maximize risk management, and even learning when not to take trades and adjusting as well as maximizing profit targets. When you begin your journey, we will teach you the ins and outs of setting up your trading platform, downloading historical data to review, and starting the simulated trading to enhance your market aptitude. Your competency will be built in this environment, so you do not lose your hard earned capital when we make it to the live environment. We make sure to personalize your entire training experience, and hold your hand through the entire process. Our intensive curriculum takes traders from point A to point B teaching someone that knows nothing about day trading and giving them all of our 50+ years of combined knowledge and tips from our careers in the industry.

Learn, Practice, Trade. We organize the information into learning modules, giving students information one building block at a time. We confirm that each student has a complete understanding of the elements that adds to our trading strategy. We are with you as you learn, practice, and trade. Each block allows you to go back and review the intricacies of topics covered, as you advance from a beginner to an intermediate trader. Once you begin applying the concepts and principles, (achieving a level of consistency with legacy trades), we move forward increasing your profitability in the intermediate section.

DTA Required Checkpoints. We have checkpoints through the training process to reinforce all the concepts introduced with homework. Also, there are written, audio, and visual formats to ensure that you learn the easiest and the fastest way. To use a university analogy, we pass the course together by doing lots of little homework projects and tests throughout the year not just one exam. Students send in their charts (homework) so we can identify potential patterns that may need to be corrected. Working with our Master Trader coaches, you will get personalized feedback on your decisions via video, so we can explain and demonstrate concepts visually. A Strategic Approach To Profits.

Our rules-based approach to trading is extremely flexible for all types of traders. We eliminate all subjectivity by teaching you exactly how the market works. We provide a proven skill set and you choose what you are comfortable with as a trader. In the beginning it is important to follow the patterns we highlight, to gain market aptitude. Once your confidence increases, we will begin to make small changes to trade entries, exits, and risk management.

We want to take the right kinds of trades, and these guidelines help us determine your trading style so we can increase your consistency. After students demonstrate their ability to read the market, we can incorporate advanced or pro trades. Advanced trades are trade setups that fit the basic rules, but also allow for dynamic profit targets. Pro trades are trades that do not fit the “classic rules”, but are extremely compelling and high probability.

The time it takes to go from a simulation account to a funded account will vary from trader to trader, based on their commitment to learning the program. While we have had a few traders begin to trade live successfully in as little as six weeks, these traders are the exception, not the rule. Many of us have full-time jobs, school, families, and other circumstances that will make learning to trade a part-time endeavor. For those reasons, we’ve developed our training program to cater to all, allowing you to pace yourself through our curriculum. We record all of our classes so that you can learn to day trade during nights and weekends.

We also have traders around the world to get back with you whenever you have questions or need help. Just imagine the convenience of being able to learn how to trade at night or on weekends! Six Reasons Why People Choose Day Trading Academy’s Trading Program. 1. We teach you to truly understand how the market works based on Price Action and NOT Indicators or Software. You will learn price action and never rely solely on indicators or software to tell you when to take trades.

This knowledge will serve you for years to come, as you don’t have to worry about what happens if a particular indicator no longer ‘works’. We offer daily market recaps so you can compare your trades with our legacy trades and in-depth market analysis. In the members area we have three years worth of results!

We want every trader to rely on themselves not software or indicators in their career. By learning price action, a trader can apply what we teach to any market or index around the world, trade any timeframe, and trade successfully. 2. Our method works in ALL markets whether an up-market, down-market, or a sideways market. The market is dynamic and it is imperative to understand how to trade in a strong trend, as well as if the market is not trending.

We teach you specific trades and rules to help traders make money whether the market is going up, down, or more importantly, sideways. One of the unique aspects of learning how to day trade is that we can actually make more money when the market goes down than when it goes up. 3. Our Mentoring Programs cater to all levels (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Professional) For our beginning students, we understand that trading can be daunting. There is a lot to learn. That’s why we structure our training and mentoring program to start with the fundamentals establishing a solid foundation for the trader that knows nothing about the markets.

This will enable every person in our trading program to learn the basics quickly and easily and read market movements that everyone should know at any stage of their day trading careers. More experienced traders who join us find our Intermediate and Advanced sections of the course address a number of techniques that will help reduce your risk and let your profits run. Many traders use our method and techniques as a foundation for other markets to reach profitability.

It is about being able to develop the correct discipline, patience, and view of market in the right context. 4. Limited number of students allowed into the program. We’re serious about helping you succeed and limit class sizes in order to provide high level mentoring and the personal attention you deserve. We know we will not be able to pass our expertise to all our students at once, so our live classes and review classes are recorded in the members area for new students who join. If uncertain about your trading decisions, you should look for personal attention at the beginning of your career to correct habits and mistakes you may develop in simulated training. 5. We have REAL traders teach live classes (not employees who don’t trade) Live classes offer us an opportunity to personally train a group of day traders and give them the extra insight they need to compete in the futures market. Certain aspects and nuances of the market are better taught in a live market environment, as opposed to after the market closes where hindsight is always 2020.

Unlike a lot of other trading and training companies out there, DTA traders and Master traders actually trade live and trade their REAL cash accounts. This is an important aspect of learning how to day trade as we do not have any employees, education counselors, nor so called “live trading room facilitators” to teach you. Imagine the difference you would feel by knowing that others are trading live with a strategy that you’re using. The live and recorded classes result in a dramatic reduction to your personal learning curve, as you will see and hear professional traders evaluate their positions, handle themselves under pressure, and most importantly, how they handle risk management while in the trade. We cannot stress the importance of being mentored from someone who has already succeeded and has been through all the ups and downs that trading comes with. They can then impart their knowledge on to you and you can leverage their experience in a safe environment. This is also part of the unique trading community that we have been able to create at Day Trading Academy.

No other companies in the industry allow their students access to their own accomplished traders that are trading their own accounts live. The true goal is to help everyone succeed. 6. You can LOSE 60% of trades and still make money with the DTA method.

How in the world is this possible? We know it sounds completely counter-intuitive, but it has to do with a very important element of trading RISK vs. REWARD. This refers to the amount of money you are risking on a trade (if you lose) compared to the amount of money you set as a profit target (if you win). Through thousands of back tests for our legacy trades, we introduce new traders to a fixed profit target set-up that remains consistently profitable. With DTA’s Congressive Trading System, we win twice as much as we lose on any given trade. That means on average we’re risking $1 to make $2, or more. This is critical to your trading success.

If you do the math, even if you lose 60% of the time (lose 6 out of 10 trades), you will STILL be profitable with our method because of the risk management and money management techniques we teach. After students demonstrate their ability to read the market, we can incorporate advanced or pro trades. Advanced trades are trade setups that fit the basic rules but also allow for dynamic profit targets. Pro trades are trades that do not fit the “classic rules,” but are extremely compelling and high probability. To give some context, our Beginner students (with NO prior experience) average around a 67.42% winning rate. Our Intermediate level students average around a 74.48% winning trades (reason being at this level, we teach an additional component of trade and risk management that allows us to win more and lose less), and our Advanced students average 77.63%+ winning trades with substantially smaller profit losses.

The 21 Reward vs. Risk we use, coupled with our high probability trade setups that have proven themselves over the years, are key reasons why our students are so successful. When we are able to win more trades than we lose, the odds are always in our favor. If learning to day trade is something you’re seriously considering, Day Trading Academy is uniquely positioned to get you started. There’s a reason so many DTA students and members have become consistently profitable traders, and many have transitioned into full-time professional traders. Feel free to sign up for our free newsletter below.

Just enter your first name and email below and hit “Let’s Get Started” We are sure you may have more questions and need more information. That’s why we have prepared Day Trading Guides that you can download for FREE with our compliments. If you would like to be considered to join our DTA Training and Mentoring program and would like one of our Traders to give you a call anywhere in the world you are, please click here and fill out the form, and someone will contact you at your specified time and number. If you want to learn more about program opportunities follow this link or call 1-800-645-6349 (USA).

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