
What is a good patter for day trading? I am a new day trader, and I would like to know some techniques that I could use. what is a good technique? for example should I wait till a stock has dropped .5 percent and then invest? or should I wait till a stock is up in price by 1 percent or .5 percent to invest?
Ect.. I do not know much about techniques and if you have techniques that you use when you day trade that work most of the time what are they? Thank you your help is very appreciatedd.
It takes years to develop good techniques. You need to learn Technical Analysis & be proficient in trading money management (risk control). I will tell you that I enter and exit a "pivot points". I use a 5 minute chart & place my stop under the support pivot. I always trade with a Williams %R on my charting package.
Hopefully that helps.
It takes, on average 3-5 years to be consistently profitable in day trading. Only 5% of those that try make it to that point.
Depending if your scalping, momentum trading, pivot points, arbitrage etc….figure out your strategy and what the intraday signals are for your stock and strategy.
eat trade sleep repeat.
I haven't got a lot of experience with this compared to some people and can't talk technical, but day trading has worked out very well for me. Also swing trading, which is short-term trading rather than long term holding. I mostly look for stocks of established companies, large or small, which have large trading volumes(makes them easy to get rid of if lots of people buy and sell them) and prices that go up and down a lot. I study the price charts to see what kind of intra-day price changes there have been in the past, what kind of day to day or week to week changes. I look for things that can change by around 50 cents a share in a fairly short time. I buy 1000 shares, mostly, so if something goes up by 50 cents, I make $500. I don't want something that only changes regularly by 10 cents. If you have a lot of money to invest, smaller changes could work just fine for you. 10,000 shares going up by 10 cents within a day makes you $1000.
I read analyst reports, I read market trend reports, I read company news, I check insider buying reports, keep an eye on commodity prices, I make notes on anything I hear which says a stock or a sector might be about to go up, etc etc. You can't have too much information. When I buy something, I have a sell price in mind, a price I think that stock is likely to achieve. If it gets there, I usually sell unless I have reason to think it will go even higher very soon. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Sometimes I have to wait but only a few haven't got to that price sooner or later. I do not panic and jump out of a stock if it goes down, unless I have reason to believe that it won't recover for a long time. Most of them go up and down all the time. You definitely need some nerve to remember that you bought this stock because you had logical reasons to believe it would do all right, and those reasons are still there. If they're not, maybe it's time to change your mind about owning it.
I usually watch something for a while before buying it, to get a sense of how it behaves. I try to discover what events in the past triggered the ups and downs and watch for them to happen again. I concentrate mostly on mining stocks and financials. I feel comfortable with those because I have some knowledge about how those industries work. I don't do tech stocks because I know nothing about tech stuff and have no idea what gadget people are likely to go crazy over next, or any interest in finding out. You might be the opposite. It's easier to concentrate on knowing more about one or two or three sectors than trying to learn how to interpret all the events in all of them
Good pattern for day trading?