What Is Day Trading?

in this module we will begin learning about different trading and investing strategies let's start with day trading if you've ever watched movies about trading in Wall Street you're probably already familiar with what day trading is while the movies can be a little outdated with stock Brokers shouting over each other furiously on the trading floor the basic concept still stands as you might have guessed from the name day trading is the entering and exiting of all trades within the same day this means a day trader starts their day holding no stocks purchases them during the day and sells them by the end of the day with traditional markets this occurs within an exchange's trading hours for example a Trader may start at 9 30 in the morning when the New York Stock Exchange opens they have no open positions at the moment meaning they currently own no shares