Some good books on day trading: How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology A Beginner’s Guide To Day Trading Online 2nd Edition The Simple Strategy – A Powerful Day Trading Strategy For Trading Futures, Stocks, ETFs and Forex Start Day Trading Now: A Quick and Easy Introduction to Making Money While Managing Your Risk How to Day Trade: A Detailed Guide to Day Trading Strategies, Risk Management, and Trader Psychology Day Trading Strategies: Beginner’s Guide to Tools, Tactics, Psychology, and Setup patterns Day Trading: 101 Beginner’s Guide – Mastering The Trade Strategy
I've read my share of books and I was pressed to find one that I would recommend on day trading specifically. After you read a couple, you quickly realize that they are all the same ... discuss a couple of indicators, explain what trend is, describe some made up set ups which look good on paper and easy to follow, dedicate few chapters to psychology. I don't think I came a cross any book which had anything with some edge (obviously, I may have missed it). BTW, Trading For A Living is the only one I actually read from that list and it's a very good trading book to start with, but not much different from the others. @zdreg, do you have a book to recommend for day trading?
Vin, thank you! A couple days ago I bought that first book you mentioned "How to Day Trade for a Living" and I'm looking forward to reading it. I appreciate the detailed post, I'll have to check them out. qlai, thank you for the insight. I'm sure a lot of what makes day trading a thing are a few key components and then advice or experience. As I wrote above, I bought that book and I'm looking forward to at least use it to gain knowledge even if I don't "day trade" but just want to understand the market better. After reading a lot of these responses and posts, I'm starting to wonder if I should be less focused on day trading and more focused on trading for the short-term.
I'm sure you've heard of the Market Wizard books. The reason I find them so critical to read is because they discuss variety of trading styles. This is the best way, imho, to find what fits your personality. Figuring out the right fit by itself may take years! I remember when I read the book, I said - Wow, I definitely dig how Paul Tudor Jones trades ... watch the markets and the mass psychology to identify major turning points and hit it hard. Yeah, right. LOL
Trade with small size until you're profitable for at least 2 months. This way if it ends up not working out, you won't have lost a ton of money. One-three good weeks in a row is not enough confirmation, as I learned myself.
%% Good news is most of the day trading books have really dropped the bids, or in some cases free-ebooks/videos. I seldom daytrade because of the principle= grow turtles like traders in Singapore. But if you wanted to day trade/shorts/bear trend; this summer maybe a good time?? NOt a prediction. And watch out for data errors ,SQQQ did not go up 333%,LOL must be a stock split.................................................................