Make sure the money you use is money you can afford to lose. I used to do day trading many years ago, lost around 10k and my wife then pulled my day trading pocket money so stopped.
My brother in-law and uncle have both lost substantial amounts of money on share trading as well, maybe my side of the family are just crap traders but for me i started to break my own rules, started to get greedy and started increase my float money (as more money meant more profit) which as a result meant i was taking more risks which is ultimately what led to my losses.
I still have over 12k of shares tied up to this day which are now worth just over half but i do get good dividends from them.
I'm sure there are more successful day traders then me but as i said right at the start, the losses didn't break me as it was spare money.
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