Articles on day trading

You can learn a lot about being a successful day trader by just reading good articles. Here are a selection of articles I have written about day trading.

Of course the best reading is my eBook, Master Trader, which is receiving praise from both experienced day traders and beginners.

Articles

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02/27/06
Special Swing Trading Report

01/07/05
10% Of Traders Go Bankrupt

01/06/05
Trading High Priced Stocks

09/08/04
Pivot Point Trading

08/31/04
Creating Your Watch List (Universe of stocks)

08/22/04
Claim and Defend Your Trader Status

05/03/04
Don't spend too much time trading

02/05/04
How To Determine Exact Swing Points

01/23/04
How to Trade the News

12/31/03
Fear and Greed

12/16/03
What Are Pivot Points?

12/06/03
Trading Styles - An Overview

12/05/03
How To Trade Multiple Time Frames

12/04/03
What Time Frame Should You Trade?

11/26/03
The Importance of a Business Plan

11/22/03
Types of Orders

11/06/03
Bollinger Bands Revealed

11/04/03
Why Paper Trading Is Counter Productive

10/28/03
How to Turn $10,000 into 1.5 Million in As Little As 2 Years!

10/28/03
9 deadly trading mistakes!

10/28/03
Day traders make a comeback

10/26/03
How to nail the market when everyone else is wrong.

10/26/03
The mastery of self

10/23/03
The rules of day trading

10/21/03
Check out this excellent guide to computer hardware for traders.

10/19/03
The most valuable mentor - your trading journal.

10/19/03
The cycles of a trend

10/14/03
Trading Pattern Crash Course

10/13/2003
Introduction to Direct Access Trading

10/09/2003
How much money should you be making?

10/01/2003
Using the NYSE TICK and TRIN Indicators in your trading

09/30/2003
Money management for active traders.

How I find and choose trades
My free, 5-part course describing exactly how I go about finding and choosing my trades.

Strategies for the long term
Investing and swing trading are alternatives to day trading.

Strategies for the short term
An overview of the day trader's strategies: momentum trading, breakout and pullback trading, scalping and cutting the spread.

What makes prices move?
An analysis of why prices change.

The connection between price and volume
How the number of shares being traded affects the price of those shares is a key day trading concept.

The day trader's day: preparation
How I prepare for a day's trading. My routines and things I watch for.

The day trader's day: what actually happens
What I do at each stage of the day, from the Opening to the Close.

The day trader's day: scalping and working thru lunchtime
Some notes on how I would work if I was scalping most of the time, and why I no longer follow a well-known "must-do" day trading rule.

"Jens, that strategy is too simple! Right?"
You don't have to master complex trading strategies to make a successful living in day trading. I explain why.

A key mental attitude of the successful day trader
You've got to have this if you're to make money day trading.