It’s irony, that the safest way, how you may make some money is the intra-day trading (you not holding any opened position when is market closed).

Why ? Because you watching price, when you are in the market, very carefully , and if something will happen you ejecting the market in the speed of light . Problem is, that If stock going up, it’s in small steps, but if stock going down, it’s so quick .

(image from the FIO broker)

In the Czech market every big falls are in the first 5-10 minutes!!! It’s the fucking ride, where you losing a bunch of money! Isn’t worster situation, when you watching graph, which going 8% down in 5 minutes and YOU CAN’T SELL (small liquidity, or it’s simply too quick). So be in the long position holded in days is real "pleasure".  What will do price in next morning… who know, you may pray to take price up.

When you will be the noob, your idea will be to find good stock, buy it and hold it for weeks or months. What a mistake!

All the "professionals" in the TV, newspapers talking about :

• buy and never sell
• not sell in first 5 years
• stocks generating the biggest revenue in extra long term
• If price going down buy other stocks

This is the direct way to the hell !

The safest way, how to speculate and make some money in the market, is to find good broker (quick command execution, low spread, low commission), good market with high liquidity and trade it intra-daily . For example buy when price going up, and sell after only 20 minutes with small profit. This is the real safe way .

If you will not trade intra-daily, you may receive some nice two "punches" as is -15% and -25% and whole your property will be gone!

Stop-Loss command may save your ass too, but if is liquidity on the market too low and market fluctuate heavy, you can’t use it… It’s seriously big risk to not use Stop-Loss command, you must watch market myself and reject manually (and it may be too late…).