Most
day traders tend to focus on large and liquid markets in order to minimize transaction costs, although some traders prefer to generate profits from adding liquidity in low - priced markets, as is the case with rebate trading.
Not exact matches
This could be due to the fact that most technical
traders, such as
day traders and swing
traders,
tend to be more mathematically oriented, and therefore less interested in «soft» subjects such as psychology.
Traders, on the other hand, are generally less risk averse because they deal with losses every
day; they work with large portfolios of stocks
tend to look at the long - term, bigger picture, rather than focusing too much on individual,
day - to -
day ups and downs.
In fact, it is widely known that
traders who trade less frequently
tend to do better on average than
day -
traders and
traders who enter larger amounts of trades each month.
On
days when there is no news, volume
tends to be light, displaying the actions of the big
traders.
As highlighted earlier, another factor to keep in mind is the time of
day — in the FX market, most London
traders tend to close their positions between 11:00 am and noon ET, while
traders in New York close between 4 - 5 pm ET.