Jan 18: The Lowdown on Day Trading
Day trading no, it s not something that Bill Murray wished he had in Groundhog Day. It s a style of trading on the foreign currency exchange market in which a trader completes all his trades within a single day. In other words, he may make a few dozen or more trades in a day with the objective of buying and selling quickly and making a profit from the fluctuations in a currency exchange rate over the course of the day.

Commodities trading is highly leveraged trading. Large profits can be made in a short time. However, large losses can also be realized. Because it only takes a little money to make large profits, the profit factor is magnified when prices move in the direction the commodities speculator bet on.