The Research HUB: Intraday Trading Primer

This article is going to be an educational primer on intraday trading. You will notice that I have written primers on the S&P500 (link), bonds (link), and FX (link), BEFORE this one. This is intentional because understanding the big picture is a prerequisite. Intraday trading is the most difficult timeframe to operate on unless you have a very very clear advantage. The problem is that intraday trading is marketed to the retail community as THE way to make money. On top of this, intraday trading is almost always framed incorrectly because people typically focus on some type of rule or setup instead of understanding HOW liquidity provision works on an intraday timeframe. What do I mean by this? Well think about it like this, I might have some type of rule that is great at executing trades and extracting returns. However, if I only know that rule and not HOW the system works or WHY that rule works, then eventually I will lose my edge. The market doesn’t operate according to the rules you

This article is going to be an educational primer on intraday trading. You will notice that I have written primers on the S&P500 (link), bonds (link), and FX (link), BEFORE this one. This is intentional because understanding the big picture is a prerequisite. Intraday trading is the most difficult timeframe to operate on unless you have a very very clear advantage. The problem is that intraday trading is marketed to the retail community as THE way to make money. On top of this, intraday trading is almost always framed incorrectly because people typically focus on some type of rule or setup ins