What is the difference between intraday and positional trading?
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- 3+ months ago by Sofiya Lim
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- trading
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not sure it is the right comparison. you can have the intraday trading, i.e. opening and closing positions in the same trading session with zero positions at the end of the day. still this may be positional as long as you trade based on trends (e.g 5 minutes chart). non - positional to me is when you base your trading on the implied volatility of an instrument (e.g. selling both call and put options as long as the strike at settlement date is outside the volatility calculation result). depending on the context, in your case, possibly, by positional one could understand 'long term' trading
Intraday trading is where you open trading positions after the markets open in the morning of any trading day and close them before the end of the day. In 24 hours markets, you simply close positions at the end of your trading day. Whereas in positional trading when person is ready to carry positions as long as the trade demands for one or more days, weeks or months. The time frame is your choice for positional trading.