How To Start Day Trading As A Beginner In 2025 [Full Tutorial]

[00:01] career over again if I had to start from scratch. And before getting to a point setting my trading up to be able to scale to three, sometimes $5,000 single profit days, I realistically wasted years of my 20s with thousands of hours

[00:16] dollars that I didn't need to waste had you in this video. So, I'm going to start with foundational information. So, start with the basics. Then I'm going to show you the websites and the tools that

[00:29] with this process. I'm going to talk about trading psychology, which is will either make or break your trading. A simple way to understand trading math beginning, as well as a complete crash course of the most important things that

[00:43] I'm going to show you how to build and test your own strategies. Then at the take everything that we've learned. We're going to apply them into a real life scenario to show you working them in real time. So, by the time you make

[00:55] going to have a clear-cut, simplified path to starting your trading career properly. Okay. So, let's first start and set the foundation by understanding looking at the market. Okay? There's a lot of technical elements that can be

[01:08] and pieces of it, it can throw you off the rails. This is a very simple way to understand how the market works and how the mechanics of it work. So, over here not going to worry about anything other than how and why the market is moving.

[01:21] Okay? So whenever we're looking at a chart, which in this case is this blue line, we're looking at increases and decreases. So all the chart is showing us is a visual representation of mass human psychology. Meaning that there are

[01:33] buyers and there are sellers. Now this is done with algorithms. This is done by sorts of different ways. So it's not as simple as people just clicking buy and sell, right? But the general premise is the market is adjusting to fill

[01:46] imbalances which are caused by supply and demand. So how this works is like this. Let's take right here for example in this part of the chart when price is moving up that means that there is demand from buyers and supply from

[01:59] sellers. If the demand outweighs the supply the market is going to move up until there's another point where supply starts to outweigh the demand and the there's more demand than supply and that will sort of bounce back and forth which

[02:11] is going to produce something called volatility. Now volatility is basically the market. These are going to open up trading opportunities for us later. So simply put, as traders, our job is to find areas of the market where we can

[02:24] enter at a certain price, have the price increase to another price. Then however many of these we bought times the increase is going to give us our profit. So if we bought a 100 of these units at $200, and it increases to 205, that's $5

[02:39] in profit per 100, which is going to give us $500 in profit. But let's take understanding where these intraday opportunities come from. So, let's take a one-year starting point as an example. Over the course of a year, this is the

[02:52] general stock market. We can see anywhere from 10, 15, 20, even 30% gains in an individual year. That means that if we were to buy $100 worth of S&P at this point and price increases, we now have $130 and technically our total risk

[03:06] implication is if everything were to melt down and technically go to zero, we're technically risking $100. This is the concept of investing. Now, you're only going to get, say, 10, 20, 30% in a good year, but usually right around 10%.

[03:19] So, effectively, we'd have to wait an entire year to get between 10 and 30%. lot of money. But, if you're trying to scale a small amount and make an income amount of capital. Otherwise, you have to find other opportunities in the

[03:32] market. Now, what happens if we zoom in to just this one small area where now worth of movement, we're now looking at individual days worth of movement. So even in a single day we had this amount of movement to the upside and this

[03:47] amount of movement on the downside. So instead of waiting an entire year if we were able to enter here and sell somewhere up here and now still risking make $341. This would happen in the matter of

[04:01] opportunities in a single day, which allows us to go from making say $30 in a year to be able to take that same amount of risk and be able to make 67 $800 in a single day risking $100. Okay? But as the numbers get smaller and we're

[04:16] dealing on a zoomedin one day view, the math and the strategy behind this starts gets more important to know how to do this to properly calculate your risk. we're buying and selling and the likelihood of that happening. So, just

[04:30] especially not going to understand exactly how this works, but this is a trade that took about 2 hours where I was basically able to pick an area where significantly drop, enter in, actually be able to make profit from the market

[04:43] don't understand that you can do, especially good when markets are moving you can see I followed this down for hours, going up $2,400, $2,600, $3,000,

[04:56] nearly $4,000 for taking the trade off for full profit. And I was only risking $500 that I was able to make over $3,000 in about 2 hours. Okay, this isn't to brag. It's just to show you that if we can use this ideology and framework on a

[05:08] that if you lock in and take it seriously that are going to be on the let's talk about all the tools and websites that you're going to need to beginner. Okay, so realistically, you're going to need three major things. First

[05:21] is where we're going to be doing all of our charting and analysis. That's going that you're going to need is some sort of way to actually place trades. Now, before actually doing this, okay? But considering I trade cryptocurrency, I

[05:35] you how specifically to use those a little bit later into the video, okay? lot of our traders are using topstep.com. The third thing that you're I'm going to provide to you, but more on that later. Once you make your way into

[05:48] screen that looks something like this. What you're going to want to do is click chart. That's going to bring you to a plain chart like this. Now, when it fully up, I have an amazing video you can go through that I'll bookmark at the

[06:01] after and get fully set up. What I like to do when I'm trading is take my screen, and I'll take my trading platform where I can input my orders and want to share with you some fundamental trading information so you fully

[06:14] trading. So, anytime you're placing a trade, you're basically selecting what's any sort of asset that you're either buying or selling against the value of the US dollar. Okay? So this is Solana versus the US dollar which is going to

[06:30] maintain a pretty consistent value and Solana will either go up or down against that value which is going to create price movement. The way we manage our list which is over here on Trading View.

[06:42] creating a new watch list, we can click this plus button here. And if we want to go to cryptocurrencies, we can click on Bitcoin, XRP, soul. We can start selecting different cryptocurrency pairs to have in a list here, which will allow

[06:55] us to flip between and to have access to viewing how these individual charts are moving. So, when I'm looking at a chart here, you'll see we started off with a showing how the price is moving. And then I can switch between something

[07:07] called candles. So candles are a better way of getting information as a day okay, considering this is a green candle, that means that price started here, went as high as this point, as low as this point, and ended up closing

[07:21] right here. And that's why our candle is green. That's the body of the candle. So we had the total movement up in the highs and lows. Same is true for a red candle, only the open happened here. The close was lower than the open, and the

[07:33] highs and lows remain the same, giving us a red body. If we go back over to our white, so it's a little bit different. Still looking at a similar example here. We had the candle open, we had the candle close, the highs, and the lows.

[07:45] And then say for example, this candle opened here, closed here, and the high candles are going to show us different information depending on the chart example, we have up in our top menu

[07:58] here, chart frequencies between anywhere from 15 seconds to one full week. So charts of Ethereum. On this side, we have 5-minute Ethereum chart. And over here, we have a 1-day Ethereum chart. This green box is the same green box on

[08:12] both sides. Only this is one candle showing us the open price, the close price, and the highs and lows. And if we notice over here, this is the high, the low, and this was the total movement over the day, but in 5minute increments

[08:25] there's different combinations that we can use, but the lower you go down into the time frame, each candle is going to show you, in this case, 5 minutes worth of movement opposed to a whole entire day of movement. Okay, so now let's get

[08:38] into a section talking about trading psychology. This is the most important progress that you make throughout this process. Okay, this is what will keep getting better or will allow people to sort of skate through trading and get

[08:52] I've identified three major things that you need to retrain your mind around and I'm going to explain to you exactly how and why this works so that once you get you're going to have an aha moment and it's going to clear you up to be able to

[09:05] trading the right way. So, I've boiled it down to these three main points, to retrain your mind out of is that losing is inherently bad. We're human beings and anytime you lose at something, this is viewed as you're not

[09:18] or something needs to be changed to make you be able to perform better. This does to understand that as weird as that concept sounds and you're going to understand why in a second. The next thing is being wrong is bad. This kind

[09:32] of ties into losing. Being wrong and losing money we view as human beings, there needs to be a corrective action to fix that behavior. In trading, this is to completely flip this on its head. The third thing is the misconception that

[09:46] making money on a trade makes it a good trade. This is not the case whatsoever. So let's look at this example so you can understand why thinking losing is bad, no matter how is good. Okay, so think of it this way. Anytime we're buying into

[09:59] to happen. It's either going to move up and we're going to make money or it's lose money. How we actually go about that as traders is what is going to long-term or not. So, let's look at it this way. Anytime we're entering the

[10:14] how much we're trying to risk. Whether it's a percentage or whether it's a dollar amount. Say we want to risk $100, for example. That means that if we enter right here, we need to make sure that if price moves down to this level that

[10:27] we're only risking $100. And in doing that, we can ensure that if this moves up 3x more, now we know exactly how much we're expected to win and how much we're expected to lose. So let's take that same exact example. We have our one unit

[10:40] of risk, which we know is $100 for 3x positive units of risk if we're right. So let's say for example, whatever we're buying is valued at $15,352, and we want to risk exactly $100 on this trade. That would mean that

[10:54] going to show you a really cool simple way to do this afterwards, but I want you to understand the math of how we're actually going to be calculating risk. in the market, we're going to take our entry value at 152. Okay? And say our

[11:08] we're going to get out for a contained loss is at 150.52. So, we're going to subtract by the stop-loss value and that's going to give us three. Now, that we want to risk and divide by three. And that's going to give us 33.33

[11:23] units to effectively buy in at to ensure that if this moves against us, we're containing the risk to $100. And we know exactly what to expect if the trade we're looking to enter into a trade, we're already positioning ourselves to

[11:37] accept the fact that we can be wrong and we can lose. And in order to actually get into the market and open ourselves up for the potential of making money, we have to accept that we could potentially be wrong. In that sort of same mind

[11:49] to be right all the time to actually make money in trading, which is 100% not true. So let's take this for an example. Say we take a total of 10 trades. We've contained our risk that every time we're losing a trade, we're losing -1 unit of

[12:02] risk. So we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 losses these wins, we make 5.2 2 times what we're risking, 2.5 what we're risking, and 3.1 what we're risking, which is going to give us a sum of 10.8. And on

[12:16] the loss side, it's going to give us a sum of -7. We lost 70% of the time, winning 30% of the time, which is going to give us a net total of plus 3.8 risk factors. So once again, we're risking $100, which is going to leave us with a

[12:30] profit of $380 being wrong 70% of the time. If you position sizing automatically on chart, you can click into indicators. You can is a calculator that we made on the private side of our trading team. I'm

[12:45] free. You can click onto this and then basically you can click right here at and where you want to set your risk to. Then you can actually input your dollar amount risk. Say I want to risk $100. Hit apply. And that's going to show you

[12:58] enter in at that exact amount to risk $100 if the price is to move against you. So, if we go through our trading thinking that losing is bad and being wrong is bad, we're never going to put ourselves in market situations where we

[13:11] right. The losses that you take are simply opportunity costs to be able to making money does not make a trade good or bad. It's about following the to be repeatable while keeping your risk contained. If you're just going into

[13:25] it, you're not quantifying your risk. you don't know if it's going to work make a bunch of money, you're one decision away from losing every single you get lucky and end up making a bunch

[13:38] process, making sure that you understand that this is the mental psychology in a position to approach the markets properly and understanding that trading wrong. It has everything to do with understanding how much you're making

[13:52] percentage of time that you are right to be able to determine whether you're profitable. This is all going to be based around keeping your risk uniform, right versus when you're wrong. Having your average loss and your average win

[14:06] are happening to once again be able to look at this table and figure out if profitable. Okay, so now that I've showed you the general structure, the understanding how and why we're controlling risk, let's go back to

[14:19] Trading View and understand how we're actually going to approach the market on this is where there's millions of things to focus on. I've boiled them down to about five or six major things that I look for to find key areas in the

[14:32] you a crash course on this. I have a really good technical analysis guide if this video which I'm going to put in a card at the end so you can dive a little up a five-minute chart so that each candle is 5 minutes worth of price data.

[14:47] would read this chart. Okay, so the first thing that I'm always starting trends on charts. And trends are basically areas in the market where direction. So if it's generally moving up, that's going to be an uptrend. And

[15:00] going to be a downtrend. Okay? And the way that I can really determine whether clicking on this tool right here and starting to find areas on the chart an invisible level. Once again, going back to that supply and demand area. So,

[15:15] if I see these critical areas and I draw from that low to that low where the price is sort of responding off of. Okay. Anytime the price is maintaining maintaining the status of an uptrend. And you'll notice this point, price

[15:28] finally pushed below this trend, pushed up and continued to go lower, which is now making this as a downtrend. So we have an uptrend over here and a another trend level off of there. Okay.

[15:40] note of is if we have an area where price is continually making these levels, breaks underneath it, and then comes up and retests it. Oftent times, this is a beautiful key level to get big moves down once the trend does change

[15:52] showing us areas where price is likely to come down to and have a continuation. where it's likely to bounce off of and continue moving lower, which we can start to use to start to craft some of these positions where we're entering in

[16:07] significantly in one area and not come through to the other. Okay, considering this is a visual representation of mass human psychology, there's another tool that is really, really useful in trading called a Fibonacci retracement. This is

[16:20] one of my go-to indicators. So this is how a Fibonacci works. Say you have a certain direction. You can click on this Fibonacci retracement. Click at the beginning of a trend and go all the way up to the highest point on the trend.

[16:32] numerical values. Okay? Starting from 1 to 0, we have 78.6, 61.8, which is in green, 50, 38.2, and 23.6. And what you'll notice is oftent times if a trend is going to have a pull down, this 50 level is often the level it will go to

[16:47] and have a continuation higher. Same thing with this 61.8. This is referred ratio that can be found naturally occurring in the formation of shells, symmetry. All for some reason fall around this specific Fibonacci value,

[17:03] revert cleanly down to that level and have a continuation move up, which once again can allow us to start to structure positions around these key levels. Okay, so if we go back to our chart, we know we have an uptrend and a downtrend. So

[17:16] this trend and see some of its important levels. We'd click at the high and then what happens to price and where it starts to respond. Okay, so as the chart Okay, price comes up, reacts cleanly off

[17:30] of that 61.8 value and it just so happens that that level was the last downside. Even looking at this area right here, say we were to start from before a continuation higher was was basically the last level that the price

[17:44] continuation up. Okay, another really cool piece of technical analysis that I like to use when I'm looking at these formations is something called a fair over the chart. So, it's basically these big candles that are making these big

[17:58] pushes like here and like here or like here and like here. And I can actually fair value gap indicator and that's going to pull them up on my chart look for them is because you can see oftent times price will end up coming

[18:11] back into these and making big moves back in. Fair value gap right in here. Price moves up, has a response off of it. Fair value gap produced here. Price pulls back down. Even though it wicked through this one like crazy, comes back

[18:23] continuation up. Okay, this one's not showing, but here price comes into the and the way that we can identify these on a chart is basically we need 1, two, three candles either in the up direction or the down direction where the first

[18:37] wick and the third wick do not overlap on the second candle. So you'll see this is the low of the third candle. In between here is going to be a bullish fair value gap. And right here we have one, two, three candles. First wick,

[18:50] third wick. Price doesn't overlap right here, creating a bearish or a fair value the downside. It's things like these to be able to find key areas that even though we don't know for sure it's going

[19:03] to move in our direction that we're able to at least start off in an area where market move in our direction and hopefully make more money than we're just scratching the surface. I talk about all this on my channel a lot more,

[19:16] the primary things that I'm using. Like I said, you can watch the technical analysis video at the end of this video to dive more deeply into how I use these we understand some of the analysis and tools that go into actually trading,

[19:28] this into a strategy that you can start practicing and trading for yourself. So anytime we're building a trading strategy. The first thing is the concept just like we were noticing on our other chart that certain things were happening

[19:43] based on certain pieces of analysis. What we want to do is gather a bunch of those ideas and observe a general tendency in the market. Okay. The next rule set based on your observations. And then the next thing that you want to do

[19:55] is evaluate that outcome by identifying the percent of the time that it happens, how much you lose while considering the specific loss size. Okay? And then see whether it's going to be profitable or not. Okay. So, let's just use a

[20:09] really simple example of how you can actually go through and test your click on this button on your chart, which is called bar replay, and you can chart, and then click this play button, and it's actually going to play the

[20:22] chart forward, allowing you to see how your idea would work in real time. So, time we have this indicator, which is a custom indicator called the Inevitrade tool suite. If you follow me on Instagram in the description, you can

[20:35] you when the markets are perceived to be undervalued or overvalued. And when this red highlight strip here. So, let's say for example, every time a red strip is produced, I'm going to enter in. I'm going to sell when it produces a green

[20:50] underneath that recent low and I'm going to risk $100 every time. That means that I can calculate a loss as -1R and a win is however much more I'm making than I'm risking. So, in this case, it would be like 3.94. So, then I can just go ahead

[21:04] strategy up to work. Okay, so we have a highlight strip here setting up my here. So, we would sell our position. we would make plus 6.2R. We would sell in strip. So, we sell. That's plus three risk factors. Okay, so we would buy in

[21:20] here. Price comes down, goes through our stop loss. So, that's -1R. Okay, so you period of time. Now, all you have to do is add up the total amount of trades. tracker. This is a trade tracker that are in the tools that I'll send you if

[21:33] word tools. And you can click each trade, say it's on soul, 15 minute. You whether it's a win or a loss. So in this case, we had two wins and one loss. P&L

[21:45] on the first was 620. P&L on the second was 300, and then we had a $100 loss. So percentage. We can click on this sum here, and we can go over and hit average, and that's going to show us our average profit per trade as well as our

[21:59] average winning percentage, which we can take into our system, which based on our average 273 would put us somewhere between these two amounts at a 66% win rate. would put us well into the profitable zone. Now, obviously, this is

[22:12] this over an extended amount of time. But once you have that, you've effectively found a concept, identified rules, found out your data, made sure that it's confirmed to be profitable. This is where you can actually start to

[22:24] So, we just talked about doing onchart bar replay. The next would be do using a simulated account. Okay? And then after that, you would actually apply this onto example, you wanted to actually enter into this trade position. Since we're

[22:37] trading cryptocurrency, I'm going to go onto an exchange like Blofin. I'm going here we have limit and market. If you want to choose a specific price, you going to click on market. So, we're going to stick with limits for now.

[22:50] about this, this video would be like 8 hours long. Okay, since this is where to do is figure out how much we need to enter in to risk. Say for example, $100. So, we're going to click on our entry, take profit, stop loss, enter $100.

[23:05] That's going to give us 56 as a quantity. And this is where leverage or important because that would mean that effectively we would have to buy at $121.73 * 56.18 soul which is going to cost us

[23:21] $6800. Unless you have $6,800 in an account, you're not going to be able to exactly why we're going to use something called leverage, which for example, if we use 10x leverage, would take 6,800 and only require us to use

[23:34] and only require us to use $683. Okay? So, we would enter in 121.74 as our entry. We would go into our amount. We'd have 56.18. I would check this takerit and stop loss. Our takeprofit's at 130.76, which gives us

[23:47] our estimated profit level, and our stop loss at 120.8, 8, which you can see is going to give us exactly $100 worth of risk by entering specifically at this amount. So, we know if we lose, we're losing 100. And if we're profitable,

[24:01] we're making $460 on this strategy. Now, you can see right here it says the cost, which is $6,800 if we increase the leverage up to say for example 10. Now, $688. And that's how you can start with a smaller amount of money and still be

[24:16] able to have the upside if you know your strategy and your process works and framework. Okay, so now that we're at this point, we've developed all these going to take you through a strategy that I like to trade on the channel that

[24:29] our trading team and we have team members absolutely crushing it. Me sessions, a lot of times, my last session even, I made $7,500 in about four or five trades risking $500. I'm going to show you what

[24:42] all of this logic to get into positions and how effective it is. And I'm going like to follow. Okay, first thing that I'm going to turn on is this buy and I'm going to turn on are those fair value gap indicators. So, in this

[24:56] thing that I'm looking at without being unfair to the private side of the team. get started with and apply a lot of your a position to be able to make this a profitable operation. This is crazy for

[25:09] looking for is some sort of sell signal. Right? I can't tell you exactly what the signal is. Some sort of indication of an over undervalued area somewhere where we have a trend break under here into one of those fair value gaps. In which case,

[25:22] I'm looking to enter in the midpoint of this fair value gap. Place my stop loss Okay. So, I'm going to go ahead forward and play this to show you what I'm overvalued but no signal. Okay. So, right here I start to have lows forming.

[25:37] with price starting to push down. So once again, if I'm targeting the halfway point of this area with an oversell and a trend break where price is starting to come underneath, price comes up, goes into our area, gets into the trade, and

[25:50] then immediately reverses down, already putting us up in this situation we're risking. Once again, if we were risking $100, our profit would be at $1,200. So even with one of these situations, we could still be wrong 10

[26:04] the session. Okay? And of course, every definitely losers. This is just scratching the surface of all of the side of our trading team. But if we just want to focus on the basics of it, it's

[26:17] these types of models and actually apply them into the market. Okay, so let's trade that I entered. You can see I'm entering in here. Price starts to move in my direction once again off of that area overvalued starts to make a

[26:29] significant push down once again 4,000 5,000 $6,000 in profit risking $500. Then I eventually close this out for about $4,600. You can see here I'm moves up. I enter in here and just to show you the realities and be

[26:45] going to have losing trades too. So for example, okay, this trade closed out and I lost within minutes. But the fact that I can make $4 $5,000 in a good trade and only lose $500 $600 on the losing trades as long as I'm following the strategy,

[26:59] this gives me the framework to actually dive into trading and do it properly. models. We have tons of ways of approaching the market in general. I watch this video if you want to dive deeper into the technical analysis. If

[27:13] beginner, hit the like button, share it with a friend, subscribe to the channel me on Instagram and DM me the word tools, I'll send you all the resources. But until next time, I will see you all in the next video.