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.

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