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 The Rules of Day Trading
   
  1. Before you begin to day trade with out system review the tutorial.
  2. Define your assets and allocate your cash strategically as indicated in the tutorial.
  3. Have enough cash for 4 positions in your day trading account.
  4. Always know
  5. Day Trades are always opened and closed in the same day. They are never held overnight in any circumstance.
  6. when to initiate a trade and always know when you will exit a trade before you enter any trade.  We provide this information to you in the Day Trading Ideas Link under the Day Trading Tab in the top menu.
  7. Anytime you enter a day trade, use a $0.2 stop loss in case the trade starts going against you.
  8. If at any time you have gains that exceed $0.50 in any day trade make sure that you do not let the stock turn lower and make sure that you don't lose those gains.  You may want to simply execute a close order or initiate a profit stop, this is up to you.  The point is that you don't let a winning trade turn into a losing one.
  9. Be willing to balance your trade if needed.  Read the tutorial for more details.
  10. Overweighting positions (long or short) should occur as indicated by the 5-point rule (In the tutorial).
  11. Try to go with the flow of the stocks that you choose to trade as much as possible.
  12. We never trade more than 4 positions at one time.
  13. Monitor intraday news events and understand which of the stocks you follow are moving because of news.
  14. If a day trade is stopped you can re-enter the day trade up to 3 times before closing the trade. 
 
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