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Day Trade Emini

What is Day Trading?

Why day trade? If you are not in the market for the money, you are in for the wrong reason.

Day Trading VS Investing

Day trading is not investing. If you treat your day trading like investing you are bound to incur huge losses.

What are Index Futures?

The Emini NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 are index futures. These are derivative financial instruments. While you do not need a P.H.D in derivatives, a basic understanding is helpful.

What is Emini?

Contract specifications of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 500 are explained. Their confusing symbols are also discussed.

Hardware for daytrading

Tools of the trade, this is the backbone of your trading. A slow computer can cost you alot more in trading losses than a fast computer would.

Software for daytrading

Anti virus, charting softwares and brokerage trading platforms. You need these to trade.

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Day Trading Blog

I post my trades online regularly, I will bring you through the actual trading process I take. How, I place my stop loss, profit targets and when do I increase my bet. Real practical technical analysis which makes me money time and again is discussed. Find out how greed and fear affects all traders, including me.

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Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis

Technical analysis is what you can not afford to ignore in day trading. Technical analysis is an art and theoretical knowledge without practice is useless.

Candlestick body

Candlestick body length is an important visual signal in technical analysis.

Candlestick Shadows

Candlestick shadows are often tell tale signs of an impending reversal.

Hammers and Shooting stars

Hammers and shooting stars when formed in their respective contexts, are good reversal signs.

Doji Candlesticks

Doji candlesticks form when buyers and sellers are equally strong. Doji are also powerful reversal signs.

Techniques

Types of Orders

Market orders, Limit orders, Stop loss orders and the stop limit order. Know these cold and hard. No time to think about which order type to use during trade execution.

Paper Trading

Do not ever underestimate paper trading. Test out your trading ideas without risking a single cent first.

Fundamental Analysis

Some fundamental analysis is definitely good for day trading. Use this together with technical analysis and you increase your probability of a profitable trade.

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