Book excerpt: Investing and trading is a business, the business of making money with money and should be treated as such. In any business you have to work, whether you are the owner or you work for someone. You have to put in the time if you want to drive your own money train to the bank every day and the best part of it is that you don’t need any fancy “junkware” or a hugely expensive charting package to tell you how to enter a trade, in fact, you only really need a basic charting platform which you most likely can get from your broker for free. The road to success in investing and trading is paved with the smoking blown up accounts of investors and traders; it did not have to be a long hard and expensive road though, it can be a road paved with gold and be fairly easy if you just take time to learn this business the right way from the start on your first day, trust me, the simpler you keep your stock trading the more money you will make. Use this book as an overview or a guide if you will, for what to study and learn first to become consistently profitable from day trading. I give you concise information as to what to learn first and what to look for as far as further information is concerned. I tell you only the most critical things to learn first because those are absolutely the most important and the ones that will make you money right away if you do them. This book is written to provide straightforward, easy to understand and easy to apply advice, tips and techniques that can be the backbone of any stock trader’s success in the financial markets.