📈️ Introduction to Day-Trading

Day trading is a high-risk yet potentially high-reward approach that targets short-term price fluctuations within a single trading session, avoiding any overnight market exposure and overnight costs.

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🚩 The Basics of Day-Trading

 

☑️ Timeframe: All positions are opened and closed within the same trading session, with no overnight exposure or cost.

☑️ Objectives: Profit from small to medium intraday price movements.

☑️ Financial Assets: Highly liquid assets such as stocks, Forex pairs, energies, metals, and selected cryptocurrencies.

☑️ Basic Requirements: A solid understanding of the assets you trade, combined with a competitive broker offering direct market access.

☑️ Basic tools: Real-time charting software, technical analysis, market depth monitoring, and professional news feeds.

☑️ Trading Psychology: Emotional control, quick decision-making, and disciplined money management.

☑️ Key Considerations: Most day traders lose money. Success requires knowledge, discipline, and experience

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📑 Crucial Issues When Trading Intraday

 

Day trading may seem appealing, but it exposes traders to significant market risks and high transaction costs. Understanding technical analysis, applying effective money management, and using reliable trading setups are the first steps toward successful day trading. Here are some key issues every day trader should consider:

1. Minimize trading costs, including spreads and commissions.

2. Trade only assets with high volume to enter and exit with ease.

3. Implement a trade strategy that matches your trading style and risk tolerance. 🔗 Trade Strategy Guide

4. Don't overtrade and limit your trading leverage to no more than 10:1.

5. Use efficient money management techniques, such as setting stop losses and managing risk/reward ratios.

6. Apply effective technical analysis.

7. Create some powerful trading setups and follow them with discipline—wait for the market to match your setup before entering a trade.

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 ⚙️ Technical Analysis

 

Technical analysis provides a quick framework for analyzing financial assets. Day traders can use tools such as candlestick patterns, indicators, trendlines, and triangles. Be careful to reliably identify the overall market trend—your profit potential depends on it. Use technical analysis to assess the general direction of the market.

Here are some important technical analysis tools for day trading:

• Historical support and resistance (S&R) levels

• Chart Patterns and Candlestick Formations

• Elliot Waves 🔗 Elliott Wave Principle

• Harmonic Price Patterns

• Price channels (especially important in Forex trading)

• MACD divergences (on H1 and above)

• Relative Strength Index -RSI (🔗 RSI Precision v.3 (Multisignal Indicator)

• RSI divergences (on H1 and above)

• Daily and weekly pivots

• 50, 100, and 200-period EMAs

🔗 Technical Analysis Guide

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