Timeframe of Trading

[Arthur 10]

I was reading some resources and was stucked in the concepts like intraday and interday? What are these concepts in trading? Someone quoted that these are the timeframe methods of trading. How many type of time frame are there in trading? Can anyone explain me about these concepts in brief?

Regards

[UrmaBlume 10]

I was reading some resources and was stucked in the concepts like intraday and interday? What are these concepts in trading? Someone quoted that these are the timeframe methods of trading. How many type of time frame are there in trading? Can anyone explain me about these concepts in brief?

Regards

 

IntERday is between days, in other words a time frame that spans more than one day.

 

IntRAday is during the day or a time frame that happens within one or the same day.

 

There are an infinite number of time frames.

 

Some traders make a couple of trades a year. Some other traders can make more than one trade in a second.

 

Most of the trade discussed here is intraday/session, that is the trades are both opened and closed during the same trading session.

 

Good Luck

 

UrmaBlume

[Tradewinds 12]

The time frame you are going to trade depends upon your strategy, what you feel comfortable with, and how much time you can spend watching the market. Some people feel very uncomfortable leaving an order in the market overnight. Especially if it's a highly leveraged security, like a futures contract. There are products that gain or loose a lot of money on relatively small price swings. If you were trading a stock that historically had extremely little percent change over long periods, then the short term risk would be much less. But then there is less opportunity for profit also.

[financeadvertise 10]

commissions and slippage become more and more important as your trading time-frame shrinks.

[chartwaves 10]

Seems like about every time I have closed a profitable day trade, the position is just getting started, and would be a lot more profitable to have just held on longer. But everyone has their style, and I know there are wildly successful day traders out there, but its just not my thing.