Something I found a few students in our last weekend stock option trading course were focussed on was that of Day Trading, perhaps without the realisation of what exactly it entails. 

Before deciding which type of trader you would like to become, you need to realise that the quality of your lifestyle very much depends on your chosen trading Style.

Trading can be a very active lifestyle.  Day trading is basically defined as the buying and selling of a security (stock) or derivative within a single trading day, without holding an open position after market close. Read the rest of this entry

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Was it really just a year ago when the sky fell in??? ….. so to speak anyway.

The bulls have well and truly stamped their ground since July this year – we’ve seen investors here and in the U.S respond well to the latest reporting season and improving economic news. The US alone has recouped a stunning $5 trillion of paper value on the stock market since early March!

And on Friday afternoon, despite it being Quadruple Witching Hour where all stock-index options, index futures, individual stock options and individual stock futures in the U.S expire at the same time, fuelling investor nerves and market volatility, the Dow Jones closed at a new high for 2009.  Read the rest of this entry

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