Trading

Trading means buying and selling financial instruments to profit from price movement, usually over minutes to weeks. It differs from investing not only in how long you hold, but above all in what decides the outcome. On a long-term investment time works for you; in trading it tends to work against you, because every open position costs something, every trade carries a fee, and the gap between the buy and sell price is paid the moment you enter.

What holding a position overnight costs, when markets are open and closed, how funded accounts and prop trading firms operate, how tick volume differs from real volume, and where to rehearse the whole routine before putting your own money behind it. You will not find signals or tips on individual trades here, only how the pieces work and what most often costs traders money.