Volatility and liquidity are the two elements independent trader George Angell looks for in a market to trade. Currently, Angell exclusively trades the S&P 500 futures, putting on intraday trades only, never holding positions overnight. "Liquidity and volatility are the two things you have to have. You can't day-trade something like oats--it wouldn't work" Angell said.

Japanese candlesticks offer a "mathematical expression of psychological market sentiment" to trader Gary Wagner, who utilizes these Eastern technical indicators in conjunction with Western tools to actively trade for himself.

Day-trading is a very serious business; if you don't have all the right ingredients in place before you begin trading, you're dead. One of the most important aspects of the day-trading business is your "team:"

George Lane completed his 47th year of trading in December 1996 and is still going strong. After many years of trading in the grain pits in downtown Chicago, Lane has shifted to screen trading during his "retirement" in a small community about 80 miles south of Chicago.

Futures trader and author Grant Noble looks to the mass news media in order to garner signals of major market bottoms or tops. Only, he looks to the media with a contrarian perspective.

Off floor trader Tom Bierovic, trades according to a set of rules he has developed over the years, but uses his own discretion on top of these rules. Bierovic believes he was lucky because he was introduced to the futures business at a very young age. His father was a trader at the MidAmerica Exchange and Tom would plot daily and weekly bar charts of the agricultural contracts for his allowance money.

Playing the currency exchange market can be a scary endeavor which is why, at least initially, you may want to rely on the services of an experienced company that can give you the "heads up" with techniques like a "forex signal."

Discover how your psychological biases you have towards trading can dramatically effect how much money you make, and whether or not you will succeed as a trader.

For most people who may be thinking of entering the Forex trading game some of the terminology can be confusing. In fact there are many who don't really understand what Forex is about to begin with. In a nutshell, Forex or FX is a term that is used to describe the trading of multiple forms of currency all over the world.

If you want to make money and have fun while doing it, then you might want to try the Forex (the foreign currency exchange).