Day Trading Basics

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Question 1

What Japanese charting technique uses colored vertical bars with wicks to depict opening, high, low, and closing prices?

Question 2

What regulatory rule enforced by FINRA requires margin traders executing four or more day trades in five business days to maintain $25,000 equity?

Question 3

What price differential between the highest price a buyer will pay and the lowest price a seller will accept is known in trading?

Question 4

What high-frequency day trading strategy aims to capture tiny price discrepancies on small price changes across seconds or minutes?

Question 5

What risk management order automatically sells a stock when its price declines to a predetermined floor to limit capital loss?

Question 6

What IRS tax regulation disallows claiming a capital loss deduction on a stock if an identical security is purchased within 30 days?

Question 7

What benchmark technical indicator calculates the average price of a security weighted by total trading volume throughout the day?

Question 8

What is the phenomenon where a trader executes an order at a price significantly different from the expected quoted price during volatility?

Question 9

What momentum oscillator measures the speed and velocity of price changes on a scale from 0 to 100 to identify overbought conditions?

Question 10

According to academic finance studies, what approximate percentage of retail day traders lose money over a multi-year horizon?

What Japanese charting technique uses colored vertical bars with wicks to depict opening, high, low, and closing prices?