Sunday, September 8, 2013

Speculation and Day trading

As it is said in the financial markets that higher the risk in the investment higher is the gain. And this is exactly what is played on by the investors who enter in to the day trading market. They enter with the aim to earn the maximum out of the single day of trading and thus they are also faced with a high risk of getting nothing out of the day trading process and also of suffering very high unimaginable losses.


Day trading is also one concept which should be very well known to any speculative investor before he or she jumps on to the band wagon to gain and earn quick profits and money. The day trading is a financial method of investing in the market where both the buying and selling positions are held in the course of the same day. The various financial securities which are available in the financial markets can be traded under the method of day trading. These securities include stocks, stock options, currencies, future contracts like equity index futures, interest rate futures and commodity futures.

The people who under take this kind of financial activity in the market are called speculative investors. This is because they are coming or rather entering the market because of their motive of getting quick gains and profits. The various financial securities which are available in the financial markets can be traded under the method of day trading. These securities include stocks, stock options, currencies, future contracts like equity index futures, interest rate futures and commodity futures.


Day trading is not averse to risk since the positions of buy and sell have to hold within one day itself and the investor does not get a very long time to analyze and study the market over a large period of time. the decisions on the pricing and which stock to buy and sell how much to sell etc have to be taken within a very short span of time and an experienced emini day trading will definitely be able to gauge the market well and thus end up earning good profits for him or herself in the trade result at the end of the day.

There is a very large amount of financial leverage involved in the process of day trading and the mere pace at which this entire process f trading is carried out, two possibilities are highly likely. One being that of a very profitable result of the trading and the other being that of highly unprofitable. There is no middle level path which the investor can hope to achieve and then stick to that pattern of trading.


This means that if one person has bought a certain financial security in a particular day then before the market closes for the end of the day the investor or speculator will also sell that security on that very same day. This also justifies the name given to this system of trading which is day trading since the trading on the security is carried out on the same day itself.

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