Start trading with small amounts until you start understanding price action, and once you understand price action, you will have to learn to manage risk, and once you learn to manage risk, you have to trade like a job.
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Trade long; trade with monies you wouldnt miss; Stick to fundamentally sound stocks; do not enter the market with sole intention of making quick bucks; stay put and stay long till you understand the dynamics.
Its no rocket science; but you will get burnt if you play without learning the game.
Follow the movement of the stock that you are interested for a few days/weeks before entering.
Good luck and Godspeed.
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Check out hti simple intraday strategy for Nifty Futures. It has a decent profitability in last few years
There are many positional trading strategies available publicly to trade on any kind of markets. One such strategy is NR7. The actual profit really comes from the strategy that you are most comfortable to trade with.
Market goes through a regular contraction (i.e. daily trading range getting shorter and shorter) and expansion (i.e. daily trading range getting bigger) cycle. The expanding range is followed by Contraction and vice-versa. So if we can identify the narrow range days, then it gives us a step ahead of everybody to benefit from coming expansion.
NR7 is term given to a day that has the daily range smallest of last 7 days including that day.
1) Get the High and Low data of last few period
2) Calculate the range of each day i.e. high - low) for each day
3) Compare the range of a today and previous 6 days range (to get NR7. To get NR4 get last 3 days range)
4) If today's range is smallest of all 7 days, then today is NR7 day..else not.
It is that simple.
This is one of my favourite setups. It gives u a chance to be ahead of trade follower/indicator followers who will jump in the trend after you. One of the easiest ways to trade this setup will be to go long above the Day's high ofNR7 day with a stop at the Day's Low of NR7 day.
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Go short below the Day's Low of NR7 day with a stop at the Day's High of NR7 day.
Observing this pattern gives day trader /swing trader a distinct edge to trade next 1 or 2 days. In many cases, NR7 break-out is found near the start of a new wave.
For a day trader, this setup indicates that they can anticipate wide range days, so they should be prepared to chase the trend and use trailing stops so that they can get the maximum from the coming trend.
Examples:
On 02/09/2014, Auropharma had the lowest range day in last 7 days. i.e NR7 day. on 2nd, the high price was 818.3 and low price was 805.25
On next day, if the stock hits the high of 818.3, we will go long with a stop-loss of that day's low which is 805.25. You can see that stock was moved out of contraction phase and started trending from 800 to 900 within few days.
On 24/6/14, Tech Mahindra had the NR7 day with high of 2007 and low of 1987.15, next day if the stock hits 2007 we go long with 1987.5 as stop loss. The stock zoomed in next 3 days to Rs. 2135
This method works well with many stocks. Click here to read more on such strategy
Everyone talks about strategies and coding, crossover technical analysis etc. But no one tell you how much capital you need and when should you buy or sell. In my own example when I was trading with less capital. Say less than 100k I have always fear of loosing 5% of my capital in a day. So forced to book losses. Increased capital. Ten times to ten lakhs and now I am positive in the last 40 days. No fear even if it goes 20k negative. It will be positive after. Three days. For intraday it is always nerve biting tension and will force to book losses. Learn with less capital and increase capital. Don’t trade in options. If you use leverage you will be forced to book losses.
Hello Karan, Well explained article with clear instructions… DAY Traders can use The Free FataFat Stock Screener to identify stocks breaking out of the NR7 and NR4 Narrow ranges to implement this strategy as explained by Karan.