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I thought my brother had lost his mind when he decided to quit his job and become a full-time day trader. Gerald is well known for always approaching things carefully and never doing anything in a reckless manner. But in less than a week he quit his job at the bank and began working out of his home office. I was speechless towards my brother. He had always been my role model, my big brother, and so I found it hard to criticize him.

When the economy began to decline and the stock market had its meltdown, like most people my portfolio was decimated. I remember staying up late at night going over the numbers dozens of times believing that I had been somehow swindled. The truth of the matter is that I was caught off guard and ended up paying heavily for my ignorance. As is the case with any part-time investor, I too was a layman

Investors who know what they are doing are always looking for ways to make money. For all purposes, it is an American institution. But there’s a reason why they call it a scheme, which typically means a devious or secret plan of action. The simple fact is that most schemes that promise to make you millions with day trading, most likely have about as much success as spinning roulette wheel. Yes, it is true that most day trading systems are little more that informed gambling, but they are gambling all …

Trying to figure out the best stop loss when day trading is always a hard thing, even for more experienced traders. One thing is most certain, those traders that consistently do not use stop loss orders face almost a 100% chance of losing a significant amount of money, if not all of it. Even using stops, if they are inapropriate, will result in net losses no matter how good the stock pick is. In addition, adding positions before market moving news events occurs can assure increased volatility and increased odds …

Just a year ago (May 2008) My Trading Robot day trading service was launched.  My Trading Robot allows users to watch a real day trading robot live in action every day.  The robot day trades stocks that are in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes.   Added features to improve the day trading experience over the last year include allowing users to create custom watch lists that can be saved and loaded when needed,  improvements in the statistics associated with each signal, and enhancing the display of information to include …

Computerized trading is taking over the markets more than ever before.There are computer programs to execute orders, scalp and arbitrage 1000s of times a day, and even programs and tools designed to exploit the weaknesses of other tools that are in the market.  There are hundreds of companies that have created sophisticated charting packages to help day traders find ideas, including day trading robots.  All of this points to the same thing:  computers are here to stay, its up to you as a day trader to figure out how to …

Once you get through all the books and courses you might take to learn to trade, it comes down to finding quality ideas in a timely fashion.  Some people subscribe to chat rooms with other traders, some people like to watch real time news, and others like to program computers to scan the market or use a day trading robot to help them find ideas in real time to make money.

When putting money into the stock market, whether day trading or longer term most people worry about the entry. Is the stock too high? Will it keep going lower? Will it be affected at all by market conditions?

When looking to trade the market, most people don’t realize there is a difference in the time of day that definitely affects how stocks act. Not using this information makes it harder to make money through any type of trading, short term, long term, or even day trading. In addition to the time of day, each method or trading system will also have certain times of the day in general where they work better or worse based on market conditions. This type of action can only be discovered by tracking …