Thank you for your insight, T E!
Do you have any advice for which areas I should begin trading in, and some reference materials I could study to begin this quest?
That will depend on YOU, not me.
Family, location, are you working, etc, etc, etc.
The only book that I have kept, and I had all of them, is the following.
Stock Patterns for Daytrading & Swingtrading by Barry Rudd
Now, this was written a good few years ago, but it will give you a very good insight into what daytrading is like, and you will see why.
However, even Barry did miss some of the very important things, but as you asked a specific question, it is the ONLY trading book that I will recommend to anyone, everything else out there is not worth the paper it is written on.
Do not read too much, just go for the key points, make a note of them, and then put the book away and start trading, for, what most newbies don't realize is, if you don't actually trade you will never make money:smart: