The idea is: you start a trade on your computer based on a signal, wait few minutes or hours, then exit with profit (or loss). High leverage, low brokerage and real time chart are all of the components of what so called “Day Trading” or “E-minis” Trading. Whatever the name it might be, you need to know few items below before decided whether it is all for you or not.

More and more people now embrace the day trading/e-minis trading opportunity as many professional day trader open their trading room to be piggy backed by bunch of amateur member. One of the main tools for such trading is the computer itself. Many computer shop exploits this niche market to get maximum profit from these capital rich day traders. But that’s really not necessary.

In printing/word processor, you can see the similar resemblances in understanding “margin”. Margin is a vacant space left as a ‘border’ between the edge of the paper and the content. That is also somehow similar to “margin” in trading, it’s a space between the end of your account and the real profit.

What is ‘instrument for trading’ ? For example: a car dealer buys cars from car company and sells to retail customer at higher price for their profit. Hence the instrument for this trading is car. So, “instrument” is just something that will be sold our bought during the trading activity.

This article will discuss the most common instrument for trading.