So You Want to Be a Day Trader

First Things First One thing that I think that I would like folks to know is that while I consider myself a professional trader and investor as well as a competent economist, that I have absolutely no problem with either speculative investment, nor the concept of day trading. Often you will hear some of theā€¦

The Dangers of Modern Day Trading | WTOP

Day trading has become extremely popular in the past few months. The surge of short-term retail trading has led to a pickup in stock market price swings. Market experts have several ideas why day trading has become more popular this year. Some relate it to people having more time on their hands and being stuckā€¦

Robinhood is making more money per trade than rival brokerages as millennials rush into day-trading | Markets Insider

Robinhood Robinhood made more from individual first-quarter trades than its legacy rivals, according to Piper Sandler research. The discount brokerage made $0.0024 for every stock trade, beating out TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, and E-Trade. Equities trades netted Robinhood more than $31 million, second to TD Ameritrade’s nearly $73 million windfall. Charles Schwab and E-Trade broughtā€¦

Perils of being day traders

One time when I was sitting in my college dormitory, I heard a whoop of joy from down the hall. My dorm mate announced that he had just made US$500,000 (S$696,000) trading in the stock market, after having invested only a few thousand dollars.

7 day-trading mistakes everyone makes but you can avoid

Many Americans, stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, are putting federal stimulus checks and other money into online stock trading. Several leading brokerage firms have reported a surge in new accounts since much of the U.S. went into lockdown in March, and the stock marketā€™s sharp recovery since the March lows, coupled withā€¦

Who gets to be reckless on Wall Street?

Jennifer Chang got into investing in 2019, but it was only during the pandemic that she started dealing in options trading, where the risk is higher, but so is the reward. ā€œWith options, you can make money so much faster. So I was then having days where I would make $1,000 a day, and thenā€¦