Day Trading – Rules and Facts
These are facts and common sense rules about day trading that all serious traders should know. The reason why some traders lose money with stocks, currencies, futures, or anything else, is because they do not have a basic understanding of important concepts like these. Don't let this happen to you. Even if these rules may sound simplistic, they are essential.

BASICS
Types of orders to buy and sell stocks.

You can place different types of orders when buying or selling a stock. The main types are:

Market Order - an order to buy or sell a stock at the best bid or ask WHEN the order gets to the market. Unfortunately, this is the most widely used order when it should really be the least used.
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