People who are looking at investing in stocks or learning how to day trade are really looking at a way to make high yield investments. This could be to help them have more money for their retirement, to help them pay down debt or to simply have more cash flow. The sooner you start to learn how to make smart investment decisions, the sooner your investments will start to pay off. Generally people who looked at investing in the stock market only really considered investing in shares. There is now a number of different investment options available since the internet took off. Lots of people are looking at different day trading instruments to help them reach their financial goals.

The choice that you make, shares or day trading, will really come down to your risk comfort level and also the amount of free time you have to focus on your investing.

Day trading can be a really good investment vehicle. It can provide you fast returns and you can also use leverage to help increase your profits. However, leverage can also increase your losses. If you are looking at day trading this is some of the benefits you have available -

No overnight positions. This means that if you open a position today, most day traders close that position the same day. This means that they can sleep calmly at night, not having to worry about what the market will do overnight when it is closed for trading.

Cheaper brokerage. When you trade shares the brokerage per trade can be very expensive. Some people (depending what country you invest in) can pay up to $30 to get into the market and another $30 to get out of the market. This means that as soon you as you decide to buy a share, you need to make at least $60 just to break even. When you are day trading you can have little to no brokerage.

For example, if you trade forex there is no brokerage. You are given a spread which means that if you buy a pair of currency and it is currently trading at.5000, your broker will give it to you at a different price, it may be.4998 or.4999, each broker has a different spread.

If you trade mini future contracts you can pay as little as $2.50 to get in, and another $2.50 to get out.

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