Day Trading

Although it may not be obvious, day-trading creates certain risks for brokerages and exchanges as well as the individuals doing the trading.

The higher account requiremens reduce the risks for brokerages and exchanges. For more information see

http://www.nasd.com/web/groups/rules_regs/documents/notice_to_members/nasdw_003881.pdf

Any person, website, company that is going to charge you for trading tips is most likely making more money on you than they ever will following their own advice.

The whole premise behind active trading is that the market is ineffeicient and thus, short-term opportunities arise to take advantage of such innefficiencies. The problem is that once an inefficiency is identified and gets mass publicity, it ceases to work as the trading/investing community starts to discount that information into the price.

What you need is education, not tips. Its the difference between being given a fish and learning to fish. Some strategies very well may work 80-90% of the time IN SOME SCENARIOS. But nothing will work 80-90% of the time in every kind of market.

There are really 2 main kinds of strategies out there.

1.) Those that work in a trending market
2.) Those that work in a range

The only thing these paid services are SOMETIMES good for is leads. Its up to you and your education & judgment to determine if these leads are good enough to implement with your hard earned cash.

But in order to decide this, you must have some method that you are consistently using to discriminate between what makes a good and what makes a bad trade. If you are not willing to take the time to learn this, then you should simply put your money in an ETF and/or mutual fund and be happy with getting your 8-10% on average.

If you are willing to educate yourself there are a number of resources available to you.

http://www.EliteTrader.com is a thriving community of traders where you can get brokerage reviews, vendor reviews, educational material reviews, etc…well worth looking into.

http://www.WilyTrader.com is a blog where you can see first hand what it is like to be an active trader and get a feel for the different kinds of strategies that are necessary for success.

http://www.traderfeed.blogspot.com is Brett Steenbarger's website where he talks about the psychological aspects of trading

http://www.Amazon.com : and look up the following books/authors:
The Master Profit Plan
Mastering the Trade
Brett Steenbarger (Get both of his books)
Trading For a Living

In short, just be very careful about any service offering you the sky. I guarantee you that such rewards to not come without great risks, and more often than not, those risks will come to fruition way before you see a dime of those rewards.

Hope this helps

Your best source of information will come from the brokerage firm that holds your accounts. Look under their faq's or call their support line and ask them.

not day trading here would mean that the brokerage would be charged at delivery rates and not day trades, even though u havent received delivery of shares.

What it seems like you are trying to do is get a distribution from the fund like a dividend or special payment. Trust me, you wont come out on top with this strategy. What you have to remember is the purchase & sell fees involved. Assuming you are buying B shares, you could pay upwards of 5-8% on the sale amount, it costs nothing to buy in. In addition, many funds have an early withdrawal fee of about 2-4% if you sell before 90 days. If you are doing A shares, you have the same problem but you are paying the fee up front, so you actually are working with less than what you put in. No load funds also have the early cash out fee. Then lets talk taxes on the short term gains. Then talk brokerage fees.

You would not only have to make a monster sized gain on your principal, but that must also be a sizable distribution that you need to get in order for it to make sense. Does not sound like a good idea for such a short term play.

If you have a brokerage account at Wells Fargo then they have your information.

You are right, there 9 billion shares of Microsoft in the Planet but Wells Fargo only handles 0.01% of them with a regular $999 Dell Personal Computer.

If you have a brokerage account at Bank of America then they will have your private information and the same case applies.

There are thousands of banks all over the World and each one of them has a few thousands of Microsoft shares.

When you sell your Microsoft share to me Wells Fargo reduces the number of shares in your brokerage account from 1 to 0 and it only takes a nanosecond.

In contrast, the number of shares of Microsoft increases in my brokerage account from 0 to 1 and it only takes a nanosecond.

There is a middle man between Wells Fargo (Your bank) and Zecco (My broker)

In this case, the middle man is the NASDAQ.

You'll have a better chance to win and have more fun to boot.

Penny stocks are only for those who have the money to lose!
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