Day trading from home

£highflyer
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Is anyone into day trading as a part time/full time career. Also is it possible to do this from home and any recommendations on platforms for trading.
I am hoping to start and have a very good amount to get me going.
Thanks in advance
I am hoping to start and have a very good amount to get me going.
Thanks in advance
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The book "Free Capital" by Guy Thomas profiles a number of successful private investors, IIRC one of them was a day trader. Talks about methods, etc. Might be of interest to you?
The point is also made that there are probably unsuccessful twins, not profiled.0 -
Thanks for this, will look into it. I have used dummy accounts in the past but really eager to do this full time.
Have a few weeks off now so a good opportunity to give a good go to see how I get on trading real money.
I understand day trading is riskier but it makes sense doing it full time.0 -
It is possible to do it from home. If you have £200k bankroll then making only 5% profit on that over the course of the year (over and above what you would have made from simply investing the money) is £10k, which some people live on. Of course if your lifestyle is such that you can afford to live a year on that £10k, then you might feel like you are in a world of pain when you lose £50k in a bad month.
Good luck.0 -
bowlhead99 wrote: »Of course if your lifestyle is such that you can afford to live a year on that £10k, then you might feel like you are in a world of pain when you lose £50k in a bad month.
Simple, just double down to win it all back the following month... what could possibly go wrong.'We don't need to be smarter than the rest; we need to be more disciplined than the rest.' - WB0 -
I was thinking along the lines of 10k starting balance, and aiming to steadily increase this on a daily basis. I was just wondering what would be a simple platform to use as a beginner0
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Have a bit of a search further back through this forum, there was a discussion about a television programme (last year I think) on day trading with some of the ins and outs. It appeared to show people making a good income from it, but as I recall all was not quite as it seemed.0
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Simple, just double down to win it all back the following month... what could possibly go wrong.
Even before you said that I was already reminded of that scheme for roulette, betting on for example red and doubling after each loss.
I watched for a while the one that comes on ITV late at night, pretending I was betting £1, then £2, £4, etc.
Apparently you could make about £10 an hour there in otherwise idle moments, until you had 10 or more losses in a row and lost nerve or ran out of cash in hand when the stakes were doubling in the thousands.
And they might ban such betting patterns anyway, by having a maximum stake.
I haven't joined.0 -
£highflyer wrote: »I am hoping to start and have a very good amount to get me going.£highflyer wrote: »I was thinking along the lines of 10k starting balance0
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I was just wondering what would be a simple platform to use as a beginner
Good luck!0 -
Even before you said that I was already reminded of that scheme for roulette, betting on for example red and doubling after each loss.
I watched for a while the one that comes on ITV late at night, pretending I was betting £1, then £2, £4, etc.
Apparently you could make about £10 an hour there in otherwise idle moments, until you had 10 or more losses in a row and lost nerve or ran out of cash in hand when the stakes were doubling in the thousands.
And they might ban such betting patterns anyway, by having a maximum stake.
I haven't joined.
martingale system, I came up with the same system as a niave teenager without knowing it was already a thing, I worked it all out on paper before doing it, worked out how many times I could lose in a row and the odds of that happening and it of course comes out looking really unlikely.
What I stupidly didn't work out was how this super unlikely event actually becomes really likely over time, toss a coin 10 times and the chance of getting all heads (on a fair coin) are 1 in 1024. Really unlikely, toss the coin for a few hours or days though and it eventually becomes almost guarenteed to happen.
So of course I learnt the lesson the hardway and lost a few hundred quid.:D
All thats a bit offtopic though really.
On Topic, I'd stay away from being a day trader, it's not very likely to work out for you.
If you want make a few grand go and have a go at matched betting, thats a nearly completely safe way to make a little extra pocket money and should scratch the same itch as day trading I'd think without the risk.0
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