The Guts and Glory of Day Trading

The Guts and Glory of Day Trading
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A rediscovered trading classic
Very few day traders make money – let alone $1 million or more – in the daily stock-trading battle. 'The Guts and Glory of Day Trading' tells the true stories of twelve otherwise ordinary people who have made or lost at least $1 million trading stocks. Their triumphant and tragic tales pull back the curtain from the gritty world of day trading to give a rare glimpse of the human emotion, the lives transformed, and the lessons learned, aside from the hype.
Day traders aren't only market gurus and stock brokers, but regular people – classical pianists, burned-out photographers, moonlighting business consultants – who decided to pursue an exciting and treacherous phenomenon to achieve independent success and wealth beyond their wildest dreams. Their stories will inspire you, and – more importantly – show how you can improve your own trading strategies by learning from their successes and avoiding their mistakes.
Every battle has its winners and losers. Every day, thousands of day traders take their battle positions in front of their computers to go head-to-head against the world's best, and most powerful, trading institutions. There are casualties, many casualties. But there are also victories – moments when an individual trader reaches the pinnacle of our capitalist system to take a profit.
Making money isn't easy – with a 75 to 90% failure rate, only the strong survive, and only the most savvy live to trade another day. But despite the negative press, a wildly unpredictable market, and the possibility of losing their shirts on any given trading day, these market mercenaries continue to trade, and day trading continues to grow as a profession. What drives them? In 'The Guts and Glory of Day Trading', you'll read the astounding stories of those traders who have been skilled enough to make significant money, and the gut-wrenching dramas of those who were unfortunate to lose vast fortunes.
Their stories and strategies will keep you on the edge of your seat. These valuable lessons from this trading dozen tell more than just the pits and peaks of stock trading. They teach the survival skills and tactics necessary to live to trade another day. You can learn how to improve your own trading techniques by learning what most of them did right – and what some of them did wrong.

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Mark Ingebretsen. The Guts and Glory of Day Trading

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One. Introduction: Renegades in Cyberspace

Success stories

A new breed of entrepreneur

Why day trading is so appealing

Unique strategies

Who’s a day trader?

Methodology

Renegades rule

A word about decimalization

Chapter Two – How to Grow $20,000 into $1,000,000 in One ‘Horrible’ Year – Teresa Lo: The Intelligent Speculator

Trading on irrational exuberance

Black Monday: the view from inside

Pyramiding to ruination

Twice burned

Riding the wild Nikkei

The year of living dangerously

High anxiety and the S&P

All or nothing

Daily rewards

Teresa Lo’s trading rules

Chapter Three – Trading Microtrends – Brendan DeLamielleure: The Tactician

Trading school

A level II world

Hair-trigger trading

A picture is worth a thousand bucks

Trading strategies

One step forward, two steps back

Better safe than sorry

Brendan Delamielleures’s trading rules

Chapter Four – Those Who Forget the Past . . . – Terry Bruce: Gap Trader

The silence of the web

Don’t try this at home

Running the gap

Back to seven figures

Terry Bruce’s trading rules

Chapter Five – Trading As a Quest for Knowledge – Oliver Velez: The Teacher

Birth of an anti-fundamentalist

Future perfect

The man on the bus and the doctor

Mutual funds and the phases of the moon

The battle rages

Small chips in a big game

A traders’ dojo

Buying on dips

Candlestick makers

Oliver Velez’s trading rules

Chapter Six – On-the-Edge Trading – Barbara Hamilton: Momentum Trader

Learning on the job

High-stakes swing trading

The $359,000 bet

Millionaires don’t buy their own grapefruit

The higher they fly . .

Barbara Hamilton’s trading rules

Chapter Seven – Pennies from Heaven – Chris Farrell: The Scalper

In praise of boring stocks

The world inside the spread

Market exotica

An insider’s advantage

The cloaking device

Trading against the house and with it

Low-tech brokers

The daily grind

Chris Farrells’s trading rules

Chapter Eight – Betting It All – Mary Pugh: The Quintessential Contrarian

Fundamentally contrarian

Everything you know is wrong

Powered by Microsoft

Fortunes lost and found

Short stories

Rats die!

Long shots

Letting it all ride

Mary Pugh’s trading rules

Chapter Nine – Profiting from Good Markets and Bad – Scott Slutsky: Rider of the Storm

Be nimble, be quick

It’s the volume, stupid

Arguments and counterarguments

The David/Goliath debate

Find the right bait for momentum traders

Breakout and support

Moving averages

Building positions

The trading life

Scott Slutsky’s trading rules

Chapter Ten – When the Market Turns Mean, Turn to Your Friends – Dave Gordon: The Trench Rat

Strange visions

Shelter from the storm

“They can burn money”

Dave Gordon’s trading rules

Chapter Eleven – Secrets of a Techno-Fundamentalist – Barbara Simon: The Earnings Player

The chameleon approach

Money makes money

Tight triggers

Lessons from 1997 and 2000

When in doubt, move in closer

Options versus selling short

Looking to the new breed of tech stocks

Barbara Simons’s trading rules

Chapter Twelve – Long-Term Holds and Covered Calls – Bob Martin: The Gorilla Hunter

Gorillas in the mist

Housekeeping chores

Theory and practice of stop loss orders

Covered call writing

In the money

Call writing risks

Income for life

Bob Martin’s trading rules. Gorilla stocks

Covered call writing

Chapter Thirteen – If I Only Had a Brain... – Scott McCormick: The AI Guy

Creepy science

The two-tiered screening system

Indicator drift

Getting neural

A mind of its own

Bugs in the system

Disappearing scientists

If it looks like an elephant and acts like an elephant, it must be an elephant

Scott McCormick’s trading rules

Conclusion: A Master List of Trading Rules

The master list: 14 trading rules. Rule number 1: Start slow

Rule number 2: Stay close to the market

Rule number 3: Load up on tech

Rule number 4: Create a watch list

Rule number 5: Set rules, but know when to break them

Rule number 6: Determine the number of open positions you’re comfortable holding

Rule number 7: Use a limited number of indicators, but know them intimately

Rule number 8: Buy on dips

Rule number 9: Let the market come to you

Rule number 10: When the market turns choppy, shorten your trading horizon

Rule number 11: Build a core position and trade around it

Rule number 12: Back your winners, cut your losers

Rule number 13: Trade small positions aggressively while keeping the bulk of your trades in safer investments

Rule number 14: Devise a strategy that suits your personality

Trader personalities: a close-up view

All work and no play

Becoming players

Appendix. Money for Nothing and the Quotes Are Free – Understanding the basics of day trading

Day trading tools. Chips for the game

Hardware and communications

Connections

Direct access brokers

Below wholesale!

Trading software

Why you absolutely need Level II quotes

Learn before you earn

School of hard knocks

Your trading style

The basics

Choosing stocks

Trading strategies

Cardinal rules

About this eBook

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When the market for tech stocks started tanking last spring, I knew it was just a matter of time before the mainstream press would gleefully proclaim the death of day trading.

Day trading has become a dirty word among many financial journalists, who see its practitioners as not only harming themselves and their families but also the markets. Day traders, they believe, roil the markets in ways that make it un-stable for the majority of investors.

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From February to March 1993, that leverage seemed all the more enticing. The Nikkei had bottomed out. And Japan was wallowing in a recession that would last the remainder of the decade and beyond. With such a bleak economic forecast, no one expected a significant move in the Nikkei anytime soon. Therefore, call options on the Nikkei Index with strike prices well above the index’s current level were selling for practically nothing.

At the same time, Lo and other traders at Canaccord noticed that the charts tracking the Nikkei had seemingly bottomed out. “It was a major low,” she recalls. “All of the cycles were coming together on the daily, weekly, and monthly charts. One of the guys in the office said, “We’ve got to take a punt on this.”

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