Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

Day trading is about short-term price movement, not long-term business ownership. Traders look for stocks that trade with high volume, exhibit consistent intraday volatility and react quickly to news, ...

In the fast-paced world of financial markets, the desire to trade successfully often comes face-to-face with one major obstacle: access to sufficient capital. Many talented traders struggle not ...