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This paper has a similar topic and deals with the effect of emotion on risk taking in financial decisions. It has significant insight into the neurological reasons for investors' risk-seeking behaviour and diversion from systematic trading rules.

Paper trading is your best bet for gaining some familiarity. As far as day trading and TA goes it cannot be summed up in one comment however there are plenty of resources available on this website and others if you are willing to put in the time. You should realize that if and when you begin...

A quick search found these spreadsheets... Best of luck

Like the previous responses suggest you cannot determine your exit point based on the percent price change. You need to determine the trend. If you are worried about an immediate reversal and the potential of losing your long-term profit its worth using an oscillator or some MAs to gauge the...

It's best to establish your own system for determining these trends, however you might have more luck if you look at moving average crossovers working together with RSI. The engulfing bar strategy has also been interesting to look at recently

With more time or a method of decreasing the manual work involved it would be interesting to see if these returns could be continued. The results were definitely far above expectations considering the time period

This paper deals with the profitability of technical analysis when used as a tool for day trading. It covers the findings of a four week long trading period in which three portfolios were managed, each with a unique technical analysis based strategy dictating investment decisions. The findings...