{denvideo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_BEJmY911s}  I cannot stress the importance of sound and disciplined trading during these times of low volume, market chop, and pre-election blues. Since joining as a contributor to Shareplanner.com, my goals are to post analysis on day trading and discuss many of the strategies I personally use as a full-time trader, researcher and consultant. Despite the fact that intra-day trading has been much slower [...]

I’ve seen it time and time again. Traders bust into the chat room at 9:27, double check the watch list posted, and by 9:36 they are in 3 positions! They have no clue where their stop levels or targets are, nor do they have any familiarity with the volatility or [...]