How To Succeed In Day Trading
How can you become a profitable day trader? How can you make money day trading? We were pure day traders (profitable) in stocks and indices from 2001 until 2018. In
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Why Day Traders Fail (Avoid The Pitfalls)
Day trading certainly holds promises of a fast-paced working environment with high returns. Its allure proves practically irresistible to many new traders. It is also a common belief that most
Continue readingThe Importance of Secondary Income When Day Trading
If there is one thing I would like to emphasize with this website, it is the fact that day trading is very hard. On top of that, you always have
Continue readingThe Cost of Second Guessing Strategies
I keep a detailed log of all my trading activities, both day trading, swing trading and long-term positions. I believe this is the only way I can improve my trading.
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How I Made Money Day Trading (tips, tricks and hacks)
Articles about day trading get about twice as many hits as other articles on this website. What’s so appealing with day trading? Is it that most people think it’s easy
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Is It Possible To Make Money Day Trading? My numbers July 2012 – July 2013
I have previously written some articles about the possibility of making money day trading: My Numbers 2002-May 2012 Automated Trading Tuco Trading From mid-2011 until mid-2012 I was going through
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Confessions Of A Day Trader
(Some personal and random thoughts on day trading) I have day traded for over twelve years and I still like what I do. Actually, I love it! Day trading is
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Is It Possible To Make Money Day Trading? Part 3: Tuco Trading
I have previously written one article about the possibility of making money in daytrading: Algo trading In general term I think it’s safe to conclude the following: The majority of
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My Best Day Trading Stock Is The Most Boring Stock
Many day traders are thrillseekers. Too bad, because I think the best stocks are those that are most boring. I haven’t really thought much about it until this fall, but
Continue readingDay Trading SPY: Returns In The First Hour, Middle of The Day and The Last Hour
Being a day trader is a struggle, so I have lately broken down the trading day into performance during the first hour, the middle of the day and the last
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Why Day Trade US Stocks?
I am Norwegian, and living in an obscure former soviet country, but are mainly trading US stocks. Why? There are several reasons. Here I will mention what I consider the
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Is It Possible To Make Money Day Trading? Part 2: Automated trading
As you can see from my profitability graph over the last ten years, the latter third shows a diminishing return. Unfortunately for me, the market has changed quite dramatically from
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Is It Possible to Make Money Day Trading? Part 1: My numbers
My simple answer is: yes, of course. This is the first article of many where I will try to actually give some hard evidence of how many are making money,
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Moving Abroad: Tax Implications for Daytraders
In a previous article I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages about living in Eastern Europe. By moving you might stumble into tax problems. This article tries to explain
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Day Trading From Eastern Europe
In December 2010 I moved permanently to Latvia. Now I am the lucky owner of a very nice house and garden just outside Riga for 1/5 of the price compared
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Pros and Cons with Day Trading
When I talk to the publisher about the books I have written, he says people are crazy about day trading. I am also fascinated by this fancy for day trading.
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Facts About Day Trading
Back in 2006, I wrote an article about daytrading for the Norwegian magazine “Praktisk økonomi & finans”. Over the years this has been the most read article on this site.
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