Friday, August 26, 2016

Day trading business plan template

Below the following is my day trading business plan. It should be used as a guide for day trading beginners.

Why you have to start day trading? Why are you trading?

I love day trading, want to learn day trading secrets and become a successful day trader. Most of all, I'd like to help more people start day trading business.
What are your goals?

I want to set a yearly goal about 13%.

What are your business objectives?
  • I am going to open a $3000 trading account and leverage at 50:1
  • I want to set a monthly goal for me of about 1.5%,  this means a 0.25% weekly return
  • I make about 0.05% and risk about 2% every day.
What needs to be done before trading every morning? What is a day trader's morning routine?
  1. I will set a day trading checklist at 7:50. 
  2. I will review the day trading diary at 8:15. It helps in reaching an optimal mental state.
  3. At last, I will clean the day trading room at 8:30. A clean and tidy room can aid me with the day trading business.
What markets will you trade?
  • There are many different markets to choose. For instance, stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, exchange traded funds, futures, options and the e-minis (such as the e-mini S&P 500 futures contract). 
  • A lot of experienced traders will pick the currency pairs, Exchange Traded Fund or Futures
I think forex is the best market to day trade. 

What is the best currency pair to trade?

I must find the right currency pair to match my trading system.
  1. If I choose the grid trading system, I will trade EURJPY
  2. If I select the moving average crossover system, I will trade GBPUSD
What about your day trading strategies?

  1. Use multiple time frame analysis to find better entry and exit points.
  2. I will use a trend line to identify the main trend on the 4 hour chart.
  3. If I had identified the direction of the trend, I will trade with the moving average strategy on the 1 hourly chart.
  4. Use the grid trading strategy to change the size of the positions.

What tips for position sizing strategy?


I will trade with the grid trading strategy.

What time frames will you trade?

I will use the multiple time frame analysis to find the entry and exit points. For instance, Daily and 1 hourly chart.

What day trading indicators will be applied to the chart?
  • the Exponential Moving Averages
  • Bollinger bands
  • Relative Strength Index
  • Average Direction Index
What about your entry rules?
  • Finding an entry and exit point starts with a day trading checklist 
  • Looking for day trading entry points using support and resistance levels
  • Using grid trading strategies to find entry and exit points 
  • Trading using random entries
What about your exit rules?
  • Using forex indicators to find exits
  • Buy the higher low and sell the lower high
  • using grid trading strategy to identify the entries and exits
  • Using 20 day moving average to determine entries and exits.
What about your drawdown rules?

If the trades are losers, trading for that day will come to a halt.

How to keep a track record of Forex trading?

It is important to keep a record of all day trading business trades.
What about your emergency plan?

It is important to make sure that you are prepared in the event of a disaster or emergency. You should have plans for making sure you are able to respond positively to the emergency.

Firstly you should consider having a 2nd computer, Internet provider and modem as a backup.

Secondly you should prepare enough capital. Then it's best to start very small position size.

Thirdly hedging is a successful day trader techniques. Don't use all amount of the funds.

Day trading business plan is prerequisite to every trader. You may very well benefit from design a day trading business plan before expanding trading activity.

More reading Best Practices in Trading: Organizing Your Trading Business

Day trading business plan for beginners

Day trading business plan

It's important for day traders have a day trading business plan. Now I am demonstrating it.
  • If a trend is not present on the daily chart, I will use buy low and sell high strategy.
  • I must practice day trading online with a demo account before I become a professional trader
  • I have to develop a trading plan, maintain day trading journals and keep day trading track records. 
What markets are you going to trade?

I suggest you choose the high volatility of the stock or currency pairs. As a beginner only focuses on one stock or currency pair.

How much capital are you going to put into day trading accounts?

About $100000

How do you plan to enter, exit, and manage trades?

Many day traders are good at the time frames strategies. So I will show the day trading entry, exit techniques.
  1. Use the time frames analysis to find the entry and exit points.
  2. Decide the general trend on daily chart.
  3. Find the retracement on 1 hourly chart
  4. Place a buy limit order to buy a stock or currency.
  5. Use the grid trading strategies to change the size of the positions.
What are your monthly goals?

Some beginners believe they can make a lot of money. In fact, it's impossible! A Successful trader annual profit is 12%. And that means that I'd like to set a monthly goal about 1%.

Include a daily routine in your overall day trading business plan
  1. Keep day trading journals and day trading track records. 
  2. Every day trader has to keep fit and healthy.
At last what plans do you have to continuously improve yourself?

Only persistent study yields steady progress.
  • Day trading diary can track, measure & improve my trading performance.
  • As a day trader has to read best day trading books
  • I must watch awesome trading films, video & movies
  • I will learn day trading with babypips, forex factory, Dailyfx & tradingview. I believe it's one of the best ways to learn.

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Best day trading books for beginners

In this article, we'll take a look at the best day trading books that every day trading beginner should be following to learn. 

First, Trading with Intermarket Analysis: a Visual Approach to Beating the Financial Markets Using Exchange-Traded Funds by John J. Murphy

If you want to see the stock trading market from the other side, you should purchase the great book. It will help you make money in day trading. 

John J. Murphy is an American financial market technical analyst. He would show you the relationship between stocks, bonds, currency pairs and futures.

Now I recommend another John J. Murphy's book for you.

Second, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications by John J. Murphy.


Every professional day trader can hardly do without the basics of technical analysis. It can help them find day trading entry and exit points.

I highly recommend it for day trading beginners. I will read this book every day.

Third, The Art of Asset Allocation: Principles and Investment Strategies for Any Market by David M. Darst.

Every professional day trader can't focus on the stock trading market. You should learn to asset allocation.

This book helps you think about your day trading business like an investor. I think you should read it in every detail and particular.

Fourth, Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves by
 Kathy Lien

  • You can learn the basics of forex trading from the book.
  • You can learn how to build your forex trading systems. 
  • You can learn how to keep a forex trading journal excel.

The book is pretty good. I highly recommend it to anyone. I think it is important to every forex day trader.

Books every trader should read

These books will show the day trading strategies. So every day trader have to read.

Third The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

Fourth More Money Than God:Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press)) by Sebastian Mallaby.

Fifth Inside the House of Money:Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets by Steven Drobny

Sixth Hedge Fund Market Wizards How Winning Traders Win by Schwager J.D.

Seventh Mechanical trading systems:Pairing Trader Psychology with Technical Analysis by Richard L. Weissman.

Eighth Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom 2nd Edition by Van K.Tharp

Ninth Advanced Swing Trading: Strategies to Predict, Identify, and Trade Future Market Swings by John Crane

Tenth Mastering the Trade, Second Edition: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups by John F. Carter

Eleventh Trading the Ross Hook by Joe Ross.

Twelfth Andre Kostolany

Thirteenth The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer

Fourteenth Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre

Fifteenth, How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore. Jesse Livermore shows us the most important trading techniques,stock observation card. Generally,successful day trader should be prepared to day trading log and stock observation card.It is the best day trading books of all time.

If you are on a budget,you can consider getting Come into My Trading Room a Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander ElderMoreover,he covers almost all aspects of a day trading business plan.

Sixteenth, Trading with Intermarket Analysis: A Visual Approach to Beating the Financial Markets Using Exchange-Traded Funds by John J. Murphy

Seventeenth, Technical Analysis Explained, Fifth Edition: The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points by Martin J. Pring

Eighteenth John Neff on Investing by John Neff

Nineteenth The Theory on War by Carl von Clausewitz.

Twentieth Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.

Twenty-first Erinnerungen eines Soldaten by Heinz Guderian

Twenty-second The Rommel Papers by B. H. Liddell-Hart

Twenty-third Ghost in the Wires:My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick. Basically,it is a series of introductions to hacker.Furthermore,the information in the book is useful for day trading beginners.It is the best learn deception or social engineering book.For example false breakout is canonical of deception.

Twenty-fourth Lost Victories:The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General by Erich Manstein.

Twenty-fifth Fleet tactics and coastal combat by Wayne P. Hughes Jr. It is a book that helps day trading beginners learn naval strategy,including the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of naval forces by which a commander secures the advantage of fighting at a place convenient to himself, and the deception of the enemy. Naval tactics deal with the execution of plans and maneuvering of ships or fleets in battle. 

As a day trading beginner,what are you day trading strategies? I believe day trading business plan and the disposition and movement of grid trading by which a successful day trader secures the advantage of trading at the market.

More reading Strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfareDay trading can be conceived of as part of a guerrilla warfare.Obviously it needs to comply with the tips.
  1. Firstly successful day trading is flexible,not static.You should use position sizing strategies,preserve margin and not capture or holding specific blocks of territory.
  2. Secondly successful day trading must plan carefully for withdrawal once an operation has been completed or if it is going badly.Mark the withdrawal phase is sometimes regarded as the most important part of a planned action.
  3. Last whatever the particular tactic used,the successful day trader lives to fight another day.
Twenty-sixth The Ultimate Sniper:An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers by Major John Plaster

Twenty-seventh U.S. Army Survival Manual by Department of Defense. It is the best overall survival manual.It's not the only survival guide you'll ever need,nor is it best day trading guide for beginners.Specifically chapter psychology of survival and survival planning.

Twenty-eighth CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine, 4th Edition by Jeannette South-Paul. I highly recommend this book for day trading beginners.Because health allows successful day traders to make more money.For instance few day traders are concerned about dental health.So beginners should know how to deep clean the teeth.

Twenty-ninth Racecar: Searching for the Limit in Formula SAE by Matt Brown. While this book is about racecar,but it's talking about passion of career for beginners.In addition to day trading, other job can also make money.Do you really love day trading? You would have a serious working attitude.

Twenty-tenth Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

If you want to become a successful day trader be sure to read a variety of books.Please don't be conditioned to reading the day trading books.