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All answers appreciated! I am looking to take some money and try my hand at day trading. I also would appreciate any suggestions at what the best trading site is. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Trade first on a simulator to test your theories at Investopedia.com

When you start making "virtual" money, then you can risk your own.

http://simulator.investopedia.com/home.aspx

http://investopedia.com

http://investing.sitesled.com/

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/learning/

Blogs

http://winners-and-losers.com/

Training & classes

http://bettertrades.com

http://investedcentral.com

ETF news and analysis

http://ETF-World.Org/

Article: Trading is Timing

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/06/TradingisTiming.asp

Stock Charts

Bigcharts.com

http://www.stockTA.com

http://www.stockcharts.com

http://www.incrediblecharts.com…

www.prophet.net
americanbulls.com

Books on Investing

"Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?"

"Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer

The Beginner's Bible in Technical Analysis is:
Edwards & McGee"Tech. Anal. Of Stock Trends"

Droke, ClifTechnical Analysis Simplified

Kahn, Michael N.Tech. Anal. Plain & Simple

Kamich, Bruce M.How Technical Analysis Works

Lefevre, EdwinReminiscences of a Stock Operator

Lofton, ToddGetting Started in Futures

Lowenstein, RogerBuffet (Warren)-The Making of a Capitalist

O'Neil, William J.How to Make Money in Stocks

Oz, TonyHow to Make Money From Wall Street

Rotella, Robert P.Elements of Successful Trading, The

Schwager, JackStock Market Wizards

I am conducting a business project, social experiment.
I am playing CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.
I am just looking for quality advice to invest $1 million in the stock market & looking for clean & crisp advice.

Please do not send spam, or links to pay-for-service sites. I just don't have the time for that.
Please provide advice, your answer & maybe reasons behind your answer.
I'm seeking to select 20 stocks today, to either purchase & sell.

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Day trading is tricky, whether your doing it for real or as an exercise like you are doing here. The primary problem is that over very short periods of time, individual stocks as well as the stock market indexes can be extremely volatile. You might as well throw darts at a dart board marked out with all of the stock symbols because it pretty much is sheer luck over such a short time frame anyway.

I'm not familiar with CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge, so I don't know what their investing time horizon is like for this task. Depending on how long that horizon is, I would probably make different sets of choices for your million dollars. Over a longer horizon, I would probably do some research and then pick 20 stocks, $50,000 each, and then let them sit there and do nothing for several months as that is, historically, the best way to get a return on investment. Too much "in and out" of the market would kill you on commission costs alone anyway.

I just want to hear from serious investors what they think about day trading. I think that it is a bad idea? What are your thoughts? No I don't want to visit any websites to make money for all of the bots that seem to rule this section.
I do think it is a bad idea, but I was wondering what other people thought.
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It is a good way to make a small fortune — if you start with a large one.
What classes and where can be taken? If there are classes, would there be any in San Diego or Seattle?
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I'm not sure about specific courses but here are some links to websites that are known for proven stock and option trading tools. They have some courses you can sign up for.

www.investools.com

www.shadowtrader.net

www.thinkorswim.com

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For day trading commodity market is best they are not suitable for long term strategy.

if you desire stock market (even Indian Stocks) you should go with technical analysis (search engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN give you link to may sites) – it is like swimming in sea shore.

Hey people,

I haven't touched stocks in maybe 10 years and I want to get into day trading sometime soon. I want to start off slow and low to get the hang of things and I was wondering if anyone has recommendations or tips for how/where to start? Preferably a place with low commission of course, I remember that much at least : P

Links would help the most. All tips and advice are appreciated!

Sincerely,
Jason H.

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Some of the major trading websites offers initial 30 day or first 20 trades free….you can choose them and see how the service with them goes….I am sure you will find one of them better…good luck :)
I am trading stocks (swing trading). I am using AmeriTrade, and I am using technical analysis to trade. When I loose money it's mostly becuase the whole market is down (caused by some bad news, etc). I realize now that I need to be watching the news more aggresively. I might decide to get out before any major news hit.
How can I get info about major "upcoming" economic news. Like govermnet reportings, and the like (in one single place). It seems like every other day there is some news poping up. Which web site is the best, in your opinion, in reporting this kind of stuff? Thanks
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Stops aren't working? are they in the right places?
and you're not hedged with options, I take it.

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with the current capability of computers, browsers and broadband, why limit yourself to only one news site?

you can have multiple such sites open in multiple browser tabs or multiple browsers.

look for the upcoming news/events list in places such as
money.cnn.com
yahoo finance
your TDAmeriTrade brokerage site

and/or any subscription services you get such as
investors.com
wall street journal online
bloomberg news
etc.

Can anyone plz suggest me some websites or books or article. I don't hav a huge capital to start. I want to learn this business first rather then running behind the money( it doesn't hurt if I earn few dollars for my living). any website which is like a blog or a community or a associations updating about stocks. Day trading !!!!!!!!!!
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You should watch Mad Money on MSNBC. Jim Cramer is awesome and he doesn't just suggest stocks but he actually teaches you how the market works and the strategies he uses to make money. Its at 3 pm Pacific Time.
I am somewhat of a novice investor, but I purchased a penny stock and I'm trying to understand why yahoo! will only show 5 days of trading history when I have clearly owned the stock for 5 weeks. Google won't even recognize the ticker symbol, and schwab shows limited history as well. I tried asking this once and it got deleted, someone please help!
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Penny stocks, or pink sheet stocks, are so thinly traded, that they are not tracked by schwab, thestreet.com, bloomberg, etc. so you can't get the information as readily as you can larger, more established companies. You can call Schwab and ask your broker for an update. You can also go on the company website and see if there is any investor information. Before you buy a stock, you should look at the financials of the company. If you do not have that information, ask the company for it. Tell them you are an investor, and you want the company financials, quarterlies, updates,etc.-to be added to their mailing list. On some company websites, you can actually sign up to receive investor information by email. If it is a very new, small company, that may not be available to you via email. Good luck! Hope you have a winner. Those penny stocks are very difficult– it's not like buying Google- where you can find everything at your fingertips!
I am conducting a business project, social experiment.
I am playing CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.
I am just looking for quality advice to invest $1 million in the stock market & looking for clean & crisp advice.

Please do not send spam, or links to pay-for-service sites. I just don't have the time for that.
Please provide advice, your answer & maybe reasons behind your answer.
I'm seeking to select 20 stocks today, to either purchase & sell.

Day trading


Day trading is tricky, whether your doing it for real or as an exercise like you are doing here. The primary problem is that over very short periods of time, individual stocks as well as the stock market indexes can be extremely volatile. You might as well throw darts at a dart board marked out with all of the stock symbols because it pretty much is sheer luck over such a short time frame anyway.

I'm not familiar with CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge, so I don't know what their investing time horizon is like for this task. Depending on how long that horizon is, I would probably make different sets of choices for your million dollars. Over a longer horizon, I would probably do some research and then pick 20 stocks, $50,000 each, and then let them sit there and do nothing for several months as that is, historically, the best way to get a return on investment. Too much "in and out" of the market would kill you on commission costs alone anyway.