TRADINGMARKETS.COM Members, Welcome to Week Five
                       In the fifth and final  week  of  an  all  too  shortcourse on day trading we want to leave you with a good outline  of  the  keypoints that we have discussed so that you have a  good  guide  to  refer  togoing forward in what I trust will be a successful trading experience.
                       Day Trading Defined
                       The professional day trader is a person who takes  nopositions home overnight. The risk profile doesn’t include a  NEON  type  oftrade that closes at 44 and due to company news opens at  18  3/8  the  nextday (Week 1).                       To be successful,  assuming  you  have  acquired  thenecessary market and execution skills, you  must  be  utilizing  the  propertechnologies. Most traders that attempt to trade for a living do so  out  ofan office of a registered broker dealer. Broker dealers' communications  arethe fastest and most dependable, and they are available with access  to  T-1lines for all direct execution hook ups to Super Dot,  NASDAQ,  ECN’s,  etc.Day traders that trade in a remote office or their homes should  attempt  toget direct access communications. T-1 lines are expensive but try  for  ISDNor 56K-frame relay.                       If you can’t go fixed  direct  access  communicationsthen you should have ADSL or cable box access through ISP.  These  are  bothfast but your ISP is the potential problem.                       You must adjust your  trading  to  the  communicationspeed. I highly suggest you  trade  through  a  direct  access  NASD  brokerdealer that will  also  provide  you  with  some  excellent  analytical  andexecution software.