Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Day Trading 5

Chapter 1: So You Want to Be a Day Trader 7

Chapter 2: Planning to Succeed As a Day Trader 23

Chapter 3: Deciding What to Trade and How to Trade It 45

Chapter 4: Defining Trading: Risk, Reward, and Timing 69

Chapter 5: Regulation and the Modern Trader 81

Part II: Exploring Popular Day-Trading Strategies 97

Chapter 6: Managing Your Money and Positions 99

Chapter 7: Technical Analysis 101 115

Chapter 8: Following Market Indicators and Tried-and-True Day-Trading Strategies 137

Chapter 9: Increasing Risk and Potential Return with Short Selling and Leverage 161

Chapter 10: Looking for Easy Profits: Navigating the Tricky World of Arbitrage and High-Frequency Trading 177

Chapter 11: All About Accounts 191

Part III: Necessities and Niceties for Successful Day Trading 205

Chapter 12: Equipping to Day Trade 207

Chapter 13: Researching Research Services 215

Chapter 14: Stress Management in the Trading Day 231

Chapter 15: Taxes for Traders 243

Chapter 16: But Did You Make Money? Testing, Tracking, and Evaluating Performance 263

Chapter 17: Day Trading for Investors 283

Part IV: The Part of Tens 295

Chapter 18: Ten Good Reasons to Day Trade 297

Chapter 19: Ten or So Good Reasons to Avoid Day Trading 303

Chapter 20: Ten Common Day-Trading Mistakes 309

Chapter 21: Ten Tested Money-Management Techniques 315

Appendix: Additional Resources for Day Traders 321

Index 329

About the Author

Ann C. Logue, MBA, has more than a dozen years of experience working in financial services and has taught business administration at the University of Illinois. She is a finance writer who has written numerous articles on investment and has edited publications on equity trading and risk management.