Why should a daytrader trade stock E-mini indexes instead of
day trading Stocks?
- Taxes are less complicated. You are not required to list each and every trade on your U.S. tax return--With futures, you simply report the net gain or loss, which we even compute and mail out to you at the end of the year.
- You can day trade without needing the $25,000 minimum needed at a stock brokerage firm.
- There are ALWAYS short sales available to you and no "up tick rule."
- Depending on your broker, commissions may be significantly lower to trade an E-mini future than an individual stock.
- The electronic futures markets are open six days a week, almost 24-hours a day.
- No worries about market makers playing games with an individual stock.
- No order routing decisions to make concerning ECN, ARCA, etc.
- No need to always keep one eye on the stock indices/sectors all day long, because the E-mini's ARE the indices.
- Focusing on only one or two charts every day instead of watching 10 - 100 different stocks might be easier to learn. It takes a lot of time to learn and master the individual "personalities" of each individual stock.
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