Day trading the same ticker

So you're trading stocks strictly and not options?

I have my thinkorswim set to show 3 or 5 bars per 6.5 hour trading day so I may or may not hold overnight. My two symbols over 90% of the time are TQQQ and SQQQ. Sporadically trade individual tickers to see if I still know how.

SPY

I fooled around with some of this over the years. Buying and selling rather than buy and hold. During Covid the market was so funky it was hard not to buy and sell in the same day. In 2020 I was buying Draftkings, Penn, and Zoom calls and selling them multiple times in the same day. Got called out a few times on some platforms for riding.
Sometimes you gotta sell some stuff and take a profit and look to get back in or spread money around IMO.
These big swings recently have been tough. Meaning I sold MSFT, paired down AAPL, don’t know what to do with NVDA.
I probably bought and sold Some stocks 100 times in one year, but for the most part that isn’t my thing.

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What I do technically isn’t considered day trading since I get into options positions about 30 minutes before market close and out 30 minutes when the market opens the following day but it’s as close as it gets I guess. I typically will get into a reverse iron condor about $20 to $40 outside the money on highly volatile stocks such as lrcx and will usually hit a 12% profit pretty quickly.

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There is certainly opportunities during those times and I did a bit of it as well over the years. I found that if money wasn’t made quick it was best to get out. I may have lost out on some upside money, but holding calls never went well if they didn’t go north right away.