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What is Intraday trading?

What is Intraday trading? Intraday  trading means a trader is buying and selling shares or other trading instruments on the same day to benefit from the stock price movement during the day. In short, a trader closes his open trades before the closing of the trading session and thus within the method, he doesn't end up carrying any overnight risk which can impact his profits. There has been a sharp surge in intraday trading volumes in recent years due to increasing Demat account holders and reduced trading price due to the introduction of the Discount Broking concept, wherein the charges are unlike what a traditional broker used to charge as brokerage. Additionally, Intraday trading can be done in any segment whether it is cash, futures and options (F&O) of stocks or indices, commodity, and currency derivatives. One advantage of intraday trading is one can take leveraged positions in stocks that are not available in F&O segment. Even though intraday trading eliminates overni...