Practical guides on scanning, pre-market movers and day-trading discipline from the DayTradingNews team.
Most losing day trades were lost at the moment the stock was picked. Here is the five-point checklist that separates a stock that can move from one that will waste your morning.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
The best day trades of the session are usually identified between 7:00 and 9:25 AM, and they are found the same way every morning. Here is the pre-market routine, minute by minute.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Raw volume tells you how many shares traded. Relative volume tells you whether anyone cares. Here is how RVOL is calculated, what the levels mean, and how to use it without being fooled by it.
September 18, 2026 · 5 min read
A stock that is up 40% at 8:00 AM is not an opportunity yet. It is information. Here is how to read pre-market moves — the gap, the volume, the catalyst, the shape — and turn the right ones into trades at the open.
September 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Most scanner setups return either two hundred names or none. The problem is not the tool; it is the filters. These are the settings that produce a short, tradeable list every morning, and the reasoning behind each one.
September 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Every day trader who survives more than a year has one thing in common, and it is not a strategy. It is a rule for how much they can lose per trade, per day, and per week — and the maths that turns that rule into a share count.
September 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Trend trading intraday is not about predicting where a stock goes. It is about identifying a stock that is already going somewhere, joining it at a low-risk point and getting out before the trend does. The complete playbook.
September 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Your brain was not built to trade. It was built to survive, and the instincts that kept your ancestors alive are precisely the ones that empty trading accounts. Here is how working traders route around them.
September 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Fear makes you exit winners early and freeze on good setups. Greed makes you oversize, overtrade and hold losers. Both are predictable, which means both can be designed out of your process.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Opening the account takes ten minutes. Choosing the right one takes a little longer, and the differences — margin, routing, data fees, the pattern-day-trader rule — cost far more than commissions ever will.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
TradingView is the default chart for most retail traders, but the free tier, the paid tiers and the screener each have limits that matter once you trade every day. A working trader's honest review.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
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