How to Day Trade for a Living
A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money
Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology
© Andrew Aziz, Ph.D.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How Day Trading Works
Day Trading vs. Swing Trading
Buying Long, Selling Short
Retail vs. Institutional Traders
Chapter 3: Risk and Account Management
Three-Step Risk Management
Trading Psychology and Risk Management
Chapter 4: How to Find Stocks for Trades
Alpha Predators
Real Time Intraday Scans
Planning the Trade Based on Scanners
Chapter 5: My Tools and Platforms
What Broker to Use?
Trading Platform and Market Data
Watch List and Scanner
Community of Traders
Chapter 6: Introduction to Candlesticks
Spinning Tops
Dojis: Simple, Shooting Star, and Hammer
Chapter 7: Most Important Day Trading Strategies
Trade Management
ABCD Pattern
Bull Flag Momentum
Top and Bottom Reversal Trading
Moving Average Trend Trading
VWAP Trading
Support or Resistance Trading
Other Trading Strategies
Develop Your Own Strategy
Chapter 8: Step-by-Step to a Successful Trade
Building a Watch List
Trading Plan (entry, exit, and stop loss)
Execution
How Did I Do It?
Chapter 9: Next Steps for Beginner Traders