Day trading “well” will take most people on average, three years to accomplish. That’s after 95% of those that try…. fail.

Here are some suggestions (to start);
Read;
Mastering The Trade, John Carter
Trading In The Zone, Mark Douglas
Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom, Tharp
High Probability Trading, Link
There are plenty more books to read. The typical trader reads a book every month or two (I average every 6 weeks)… I re-read them also.

Every night I watch videos on the market;

http://www.alphatrends.net/

http://www.tradingwithtk.com/

Weekend (Sunday) video;

https://www.shadowtrader.net/videoArchive.html

My broker has weekly “chats” that may be of interest;

https://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=onlineSeminar

In one word there’s only one way to be successful: Disipline

Here’s another web page that may be of interest;

http://www.mytrade.com/

Training for a fee;

http://www.investools.com/

Good luck….. it’s been a rough year! I’ve been a position trader for 30+ years. A swing trader for the past 1.5 years. I’m just getting into day trading (also)……………………….

In November there’s a TradersExpo in Vegas… if you can, it’s well worth the effort.

Start learning the basics of fundamentals and technical so you will be more informed in your investments. You can find all the basic info you need on websites for free.
This site should give you a good start.

http://finance.yahoo.com/education

Try what you learn on demo sites. If you pick 75% right with play money then you might be ready to start slowly investing.

http://simulator.investopedia.com/

http://simulator.zacks.com/

http://www.fxcm.com/open-free-100k.jsp

http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/metatrader4…

Or just google for more.

I use Lightning Strikes Trading System for trading in any time frame and it works on forex, stocks, bonds, etf's, mutual funds, etc… They have 3 free training sessions a week and you don't have to buy the software to join in the live chat and text. You can even watch some recorded past live sessions. Here are some past charts that I used.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R0zjjaZ…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16RxjOUQt…

There are 7 indicators (2 short, 2 medium, and 3 long term) and if volume is reported another one is added (on balance volume). Plus whatever time-frame is used the 2 green horizontal lines are the support and resistance for that time frame. So when indicators are all touching the bottom price is at or very, very near support. At top is at or very, very near resistance. Which helps my entry/exits and risk/reward ratio.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9Wv-wt…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9wSKdV…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R2fYIj6…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R3R0VQe…

If you can not view charts above I can email them.

Here are my favorite sites.

http://stockcharts.com/

Has basically all you need from fundamental to technical terms. Plus stock screens, charts, public chart lists, and much more useful info.

https://www.fidelity.com/

Has good learning resources.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp

In addition to yahoo finance.

http://www.reuters.com/

For news and more.

http://www.marketwatch.com/default.aspx

For news and more.

http://www.valueprime.com/index.php

For rating stock risk/reward ratio and reports.

http://www.barchart.com/

For investing in more than stocks.

http://www.investopedia.com/

For more great learning tools.

http://www.lightninglive.com/

For best software timing your entry/exits any time frame for day traders and long term investors.

Others worth exploring.

http://www.equis.com/

http://www.stockta.com/

http://www.secform4.com/

Best Wishes,
Burt Whitley

Hi, Skahhh,

For most stocks, commodities and other investments, the market is just too big to be manipulated. What looks like a lot of money to you and me — and is a lot of money for an individual — is just noise to the overall market.

That's not to say that they don't ever try. Most notoriously, the Hunt Brothers pushed silver up to about $54 in 1980. They declared bankruptcy and were convicted of conspiring to manipulate the market. By the way, when they started acquiring silver in 1973, they were among the very wealthiest people in the US and world.

Now, when it comes to illiquid penny stocks, you may know that the story is quite different. Then you do have cases of "pump and dump."

That's where somebody buys a small, over the counter stock, then somehow pumps it up. Most commonly used are Internet investment chat rooms and forums, but financial newsletters have been accused of this too. If you can get a few hundred or thousand people to buy the penny stock, the price will go up. Then you dump it.

Or you can do the opposite. Short a stock, then bad mouth it until the price goes down where you want. I forget the catchy phrase for that.

But notice that these scammers are not using their money to artificially raise or lower price of stock, just word of mouth.

I don't believe that using your own money to push up price of a stock or option — by buying more and more — makes mathematical sense. When you run out of money, demand will return to normal, and so will the stock price, leaving you holding a lot of overpriced shares and options.

Remember that in the money options go up (or down) in price dollar for dollar compared to price rise (or fall) of underlying stock.

best, Rick

Yahoo Answer is a place to share knowledge and experience. If you are looking for Chat/Tip this is not the place for it. However, you can ask to others to share their tip. Worth to try.

I watch a day-traders chat room at green on the screen…and they all seem to use Scottrade…plus others…but Scott provides many of the " movement" screens that they employ.

Well, just the fact that your question had so many parts probably gives you an indication of how many services there are out there.

From what I can tell, there are thousands of advisory services. Some I know of have several products (like schaeffer.com). Others just have one.

In any event, the number of subscribers needed is dependent upon your fixed and variable costs, not of someone elses. My startup costs are fairly fixed, so then, it's mainly x subscribers at $y to break even, and then after that, it's profit until such point I need another person to manage the flow of information, etc.

The key in differentiating yourself is your performance and your advertising. Both will get you more clients, however, your performance will help keep them.

Hope that helps!

Great, start learning the basics of fundamentals and technical analysis so you will be more informed in your investments. Until then you can find all the basic info you need to learn on websites for free.
This site should give you a good start.

http://finance.yahoo.com/education

If your current/future employer offers an employee 401k plan. Invest up to the matching % of your employers contribution. If plan offers an election to invest in a money market fund you may want to invest in it until you learn more. Next invest in a Roth IRA up to the max allowed(yearly). If you then have more money to invest, go back to your 401k plan and invest the max allowed(yearly). So after you do all the above and want to invest more you should be able to decide how. Only invest money that you can afford to lose. Making some quick money is nice but if you lose it, it gets right ugly.

You may also think about ETF's instead of mutual funds, stocks. and options.

http://finance.yahoo.com/etf

Try what you learn on demo sites. They can be a very fun but educational way to learn from mistakes. If you pick 75% right with play money then you might be ready to start slowly investing.

http://simulator.investopedia.com/

http://simulator.zacks.com/

http://www.fxcm.com/open-free-100k.jsp

http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/metatrader4…

Or just google for more.

I use Lightning Strikes Trading System for trading in any time frame and it works on forex, stocks, bonds, etf's, mutual funds, etc… They have 3 free training sessions a week and you don't have to buy the software to join in the live chat and text. You can even watch some recorded past live sessions. Here are some past charts that I used.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R0zjjaZ…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16RxjOUQt…

There are 7 indicators (2 short, 2 medium, and 3 long term) and if volume is reported another one is added (on balance volume). Plus whatever time-frame is used the 2 green horizontal lines are the support and resistance for that time frame. So when indicators are all touching the bottom price is at or very, very near support. At top is at or very, very near resistance. Which helps my entry/exits and risk/reward ratio.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9Wv-wt…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9wSKdV…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R2fYIj6…

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R3R0VQe…

If you can not view charts above I can email them.

Here are my favorite sites.

http://stockcharts.com/

Has basically all you need from fundamental to technical terms. Plus stock screens, charts, public chart lists, and much more useful info.

https://www.fidelity.com/

Has good learning resources.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp

In addition to yahoo finance.

http://www.reuters.com/

For news and more.

http://www.marketwatch.com/default.aspx

For news and more.

http://www.valueprime.com/index.php

For rating stock risk/reward ratio and reports.

http://www.barchart.com/

For investing in more than stocks.

http://www.investopedia.com/

For more great learning tools.

http://www.lightninglive.com/

For best software timing your entry/exits any time frame for day traders and long term investors.

Others worth exploring.

http://www.equis.com/

http://www.stockta.com/

http://www.secform4.com/

Best Wishes,
Burt Whitley