Category Archives: Other - Business & Finance

Would an active futures day trader still use a broker?

By DayTrader | December 18, 2009

Yankee in London asked: I’m writing a novel in which one character is a full-time futures trader, trading her own speculative account from her home after having traded professionally for a specialty mutual fund.
When I first started researching this book years ago, I visited some serious at-home traders who watched the markets at home with [...]

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Technical Analysis or Based On News?

By DayTrader | November 27, 2009

Lord W asked: I’m beginning to day trade futures and have been studying books on that discuss a lot of technical analysis based on charts.
But charts are backward looking and not indicative of forward performance. It’s easy to look at a chart and say what you would’ve done to make a profitable trade.
On the other [...]

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Why does the Tokyo Stock Exchange stop trading between 11.00am and 1.00pm JST every day?

By DayTrader | July 24, 2009

Harry Hayfield asked: I’ve been keeping a track of the Nikkei Dow index recently following it’s plunge on Thursday and would like to know why it just stops for two hours every day between 11.00am and 1.00pm?Danial

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Why don’t more people like day-trading/investing?

By DayTrader | May 19, 2009

humstu asked: With enough knowledge, a person can start from $5,000 and have $20,000 by the end of the month. And I truly mean enough knowledge, because there is a very high learning curve. But once you reach that stage, the financial rewards are huge. I’m currently making $5,000 profit a month and I just [...]

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If you are a day trader type investor what is a good market index to look at ?

By DayTrader | February 25, 2009

Bell asked: so as to see the changing market values of the stocks ?Madeline

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Question about “pattern day trader” rule?

By DayTrader | February 2, 2009

Jimmy J asked: Can I do this?
10/1) Buy 20 MSFT, buy 20 GOOG, Buy 20 INTC
10/2) Sell 20 MSFT, sell 20 GOOG, Sell 20 INTC
10/3) Buy 30 AAPL, Buy 30 WMT
10/4) Sell 30 AAPL, Sell 30 WMT
Am I allowed to do these trades without being marked “a pattern day trader”?Marcella

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Are there people who are successful in day trade?

By DayTrader | January 28, 2009

acarlatrade2 asked: I found a wonderful way to get advice on daytrade. If there are people who are intrested to know to be more successful, let me know.Emilia

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