Day trading is a profession for many traders

I presume it is not obvious to everyone that day trading financial markets is actually much rather a business ...and should not be looked upon as gambling. There certainly are ways to trading profit but they are not that easy to find. You should only trade or day trade with so called Risk Capital, or in other words money you can afford to lose, because your money will be at risk with each trade. No trade ever is absolutely sure to succeed. For this reason you are not to put all your eggs in one basket. Professional traders almost exclusively make money with lots of (sometimes hundreds of) small trades rather than being exposed to too much risk in a single trade which is very unwise. In this article I want to give you some idea as to what steps an amateur trader could take to achieve a profitable and rewarding trading career.

First, the myth... the holy grail of trading, which is not a myth at all.

There are people who constantly and consistently make profits and are able to outsmart the market. Don`t be fooled though, everyone has losing trades... The "smart money"which is a commonly used term to represent institutional traders, investors, who are the chief driving force behind decisive and often fast market moves is highly predictable, otherwise it would not be smart.

It is highly predictable but not always predictable.

Trading is all about finding a trend, even if it is on a very minuscule scale...without a trend you take a gamble like break out trades for example. Different rules of engagement...

Lots of people, or shall we say the majority, act as punters

They just take a wild guess all the time and go by the flip of the coin ...not as clear cut as that though because the contracts they trade do not appeal to the gambler inside... trading contracts, once put through by your broker, are immediately live and then there is the time or length you hold the contract running. This actually makes trading a lot worse than gambling in a sense because you cannot go by the usual "flip of the coin" approach. This is not fifty-fifty chance... a trade that appears to make you money at first can turn into a massive loser very rapidly and vice versa. There have been recent attempts by some brokerage companies to offer day trading products professional traders would never use... only because there are loads of willing gamblers joining in all the time.

Immersion training

Trading is a skill and to master it requires experiential knowledge. You can only learn it by doing it... I have been buying trading systems and strategies that were developed by highly successful traders and found them very useful and some of them truly brilliant. It is really helpful to see how the system is put into practice as well especially for beginner traders.

To make profit as a trader or day trader you need proper trading education with professional or successful traders who have a proven track record.