It's Marina, The Trader Chick, and I'm here to simplify your day trading.

OK, so what in the world is day trading, and why is it not investing?

So day trading is completely unlike investing. With day trading, we're focusing on the intraday, on the actual one day when you're in and out of trades in that specific day, if you don't really get all the lingo. So in day trading, you are in and out of positions that very same day.

That is literally what day trading is about. Master that one instrument, that one instrument, that one market that truly brings you the money profitably, consistently every day when you are day-trading and then learn the next market.

Investors really care about the companies that they are investing in to see them grow because they're going to go through ups and downs. Right. For instance, take Apple or Amazon. You know, those are solid companies, but on a daily basis, weekly basis, they could have their  flows. Right? They could go up or down, but you'd care about the company, you know, the fundamentals. You're seeing what they're doing in the future.

It's OK because you are investing. Unlike day traders, we don't care at all if it's going up or if it's going down. Why? Because we're only looking at what's happening at the moment. And to be honest with you, we can make a lot of money going up, but we can make you probably even more when the companies are going down. We don't care about their overall health. We care only about what's going on right in front of us during that particular day.

You can really understand and really see what's going on, rather than be scattered all over the place because each market works very differently. OK, so that's pretty much the essence of it, the gist of what are the differences between day trading and investing.