Everything about Day Traders totally explained
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A
day trader is a
trader who buys and sells
financial instruments (eg
stocks,
options,
futures,
derivatives,
currencies) within the same trading day such that all positions will usually be closed before the market close of the trading day. This trading style is called
day trading. Depending on one's trading strategy, it may range from several to even a hundred orders a day.
Occupation
Most day traders are full time due to the devotion of time.
There are 2 major divisions of day traders: institutional and individual day trader.
An
institutional day trader is a
trader who works for a larger financial institution. This type of trader has more advantages than individuals since he/she has more resources and access to different research tools and equipment: large amounts of capital and leverage, large availability of fresh fund inflows to trade continuously on the markets, dedicated and direct lines to data centers and exchanges, expensive and high-end trading and analytical software, support teams to help, and much more. All these advantages allow them to forestall other day traders and minimize the high risks involved in
day trading.
An
individual day trader is a
trader who works for him/herself. He/she usually works alone. An individual trader generally trades with one's own capital, from loans, or get finances from others privately and manage their money. Law has restricted the number of other people's money an individual trader can manage. In the United States, day traders may not advertise as advisors or financial managers. Nowadays nearly all individual day traders choose
direct access brokers as they can offer fast and direct access to the exchanges, and offer better trading platforms.
In the past, most day traders were institutionals due to the huge imbalances between them and individuals. Since the technology boom in the second half of the
1990s, the advance in technology and the popularity of
personal computers and
Internet, offer fast online trading and powerful analytical facilities at relatively low costs. Regulation improvements in favor of small and individual traders help to smooth the imbalances too. All these attract more and more individual and casual traders to
day trading.
Famous day traders
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Bruce Kovner
Mark O. Barton, spree killer
Victor Niederhoffer
Flemming Kozok
, successful and famous Danish day traderFurther Information
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