Why do most people suffer a loss in intraday trading?

One has to work hard to earn money and there is no free lunch. Same is true with intraday trading as well.

Many traders enter in intraday trading enthusiastically thinking they will earn a lot of money in a very short time period and will become rich overnight.

The sad part is that nearly 90 percent of them exit within a few months of trading and losing most or all the money they have invested when they started trading.

Reasons for such a huge percentage of failures

Most of the people do not understand the rules of the game. In anticipation and haste of reaping huge profit overnight, they keep on committing the same mistake repeatedly. They do not understand that they have to spend adequate time to learn the ropes and succeed in the long term.

Some traders repeat same mistakes again and again

In life everyone makes mistakes but a newbie trader makes blunders. They believe in tips provided to them from unknowledgeable investment consultants. The tips that are provided are based only on market speculations only. There is no reasoning, calculation, analysis, and rationale of the tips that they provide and many of them do not have the license to provide any consultancy services.

So at the end of the day when the stock has to be squared up, the traders have no option except to sell it at a loss. So when things like this happen repeatedly traders lose confidence and start playing safe. This, in turn, reduces the profit margin and thereby is at loss of the whole purpose of intraday trading. Only those persons should go for intraday who have deep pockets. For shallow pockets sustainability is low.

Prepare and analysis for intraday trading

One of the important reasons why people fail in intraday trading is that they jump into this field without any preparation. They do not study market behaviour and pattern. Many even do not know the high and low of stock. They do not go through or read the company parameters. Just based on some relatives or friends tip they put in their hard earned money at stake. If the basics and fundamentals are not clear or you do not have a profound knowledge of the subject matter naturally the trades will not earn you any profit.

Taking care of timing

One has to be very cautious about the timing during intraday trading. Both the entry and exit points should not be missed. Before buying any stock one should decide at what price one has to enter and at what price one has to exist for both the high and low of it. As soon as the stock price rise reaches the predetermined price or the prices that you have decided upon one should book profit and exit. One should also use stop loss and adhere to it. In case the price falls to your predetermined stop loss it is better to square off your position and move forward.

Those who do not follow these plans religiously, land into trouble. One should have self-control, make a plan and stick to it. Trading with a disciplined approach will help you reap good profit in a long run.

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