• Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Day Trading; Chapter 1: So You Want to Be a Day Trader; It's All in a Day's Work: Defining Day Trading; Committing to Trading As a Business; Defining the Principles of Successful Day Trading; Identifying the Personality Traits of Successful Day Traders; Seeing What Day Trading Is Not; Looking at Success Rates; Chapter 2: Planning to SucceedAs a Day Trader; Planning Your Trading Business; Planning Your Trades
  • Closing Out Your PositionMaxims and Clichés That Guide and Mislead Traders; Chapter 3: Deciding What to Trade andHow to Trade It; Defining a Good Day-Trading Asset; Trading Types of Securities; Cashing In with Currency, the Big Kahuna; Considering Commodities and How They Trade; Dealing in Derivatives; Chapter 4: Defining Trading: Risk, Reward, and Timing; Understanding Risk and Return; Differentiating Trading, Investing, and Gambling; Managing the Risks of Day Trading; Chapter 5: Regulation and the Modern Trader; Looking Back on the Road to Regulations; Reviewing the Regulators
  • Working with Brokers' RulesWatching Out for Insider Trading; Preparing for Rule Changes in Crisis Conditions; Taking on Partners; Part II: Exploring Popular Day-Trading Strategies; Chapter 6: Managing Your Moneyand Positions; Setting Your Earnings Expectations; Gaining Advantage with a Money-Management Plan; Examining Styles of Money Management; Seeing How Money Management Affects Your Return; Planning for Your Profits; Chapter 7: Technical Analysis 101; Comparing Research Techniques Used in Day Trading; Using Technical Analysis; Reading the Charts
  • Considering Different Approaches to Technical AnalysisAvoiding Technical-Analysis Pitfalls; Chapter 8: Following Market Indicators andTried-and-True Day-Trading Strategies; Psyching Out the Markets; Taking the Temperature of the Market; Measuring Money Flows; Considering Information That Crops Up during the Trading Day; Identifying Anomalies and Traps; Building on Some Standard Strategies; Developing a Program; Chapter 9: Increasing Risk and Potential Return with Short Selling and Leverage; The Magic of Margin; The Switch-Up of Short Selling; Leveraging All Kinds of Accounts
  • Borrowing in Your Trading BusinessAssessing Risks and Returns from Short Selling and Leverage; Chapter 10: Looking for Easy Profits: Navigating the Tricky World of Arbitrage and High-Frequency Trading; Arbitrage and the Law of One Price; Scalping, the Dangerous Game; Those Pesky Transaction Costs; Risk Arbitrage and Its Tools; Arbitrage Strategies for Day Traders; Chapter 11: All About Accounts; Choosing a Brokerage; Brokers for Day Traders; Part III: Necessities and Niceties for Successful Day Trading; Chapter 12: Equipping to Day Trade; Setting Up Your Trading Laboratory
  • Getting Mobile with the Markets
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