#TradingTypes101 Day Trading Example

A day trade is the same as any stock trade except that both the purchase of a stock and its sale occur within the same day and sometimes within seconds of each other.

For example, say a day trader has completed a technical analysis of a company called Intuitive Sciences Inc. (ISI). The analysis indicates that this stock, listed in the Nasdaq 100, shows a pattern of price rise by at least 0.6% on most when the Nasdaq is up more than 0.4%. The trader has reason to believe this will be one of those days