Online day trading is not meant for everyone, and this is why it is currently being dominated or ruled by expert investors who have been in the trading business for a long time and for this reason and more $, you should avoid it at all costs until you build up enough confidence and expertise to handle the volatile world of day trading.
One of the main reasons why people fail miserably at day trading, especially those who are new to the market, is that they have not developed that cold emotionless approach to trading . If you trade with any sort of emotion, you’ll surely lose because the combination of anger and depression are not the sort of emotions you need on your side when you are tackling the market and neither is greed. While you might know that you have to keep your emotions in check, the day trade is a very razor’s edge, reactive, fire wielding market that will singe you within seconds of making a wrong decision and unless you are a Buddhist in a constant state of meditation, there is no way you will be able to keep your emotions in check for hours on end everyday to make wise and informed decisions based on pure logic and fact.
. Day trading is really a very serious investment decision that no one should be making lightly and only traders who have been around the block long enough can even try their hand at it. You need an intimate knowledge of the market that you choose, and enough ‘back of the hand’ knowledge so that you can make decisions based on impulse and impulse is the word I would use to describe the market. Price movements in positive directions, no matter how small need to be pounced on. It’s a game of accumulation and you need to accumulate as much as you can, with as much research and information to make sense of the market.
Lastly you must have the necessary risk capital at hand and most people who day trade, or in face, this advice can apply to all sorts of traders, is that they always play with money they cannot afford to lose. Day traders are more in danger because they think their margins are minimised with the small amounts of money they invest in a single day, but as their negative downslides accumulate, they realise too late that they have been steadily losing way too much to further sustain their activities in the market. Always make sure that the money you invest inside is the money you can afford to lose. Going broke is not a good thing. And these are 3 of the main reasons why most people avoid online day trading.