■ Breakout Traders:
Many day traders will trade momentum and focus on day trading breakouts above swing highs and swing lows while others will look to trade reversal setups after gaps.

■ Reversal Traders:
Counter-trend traders will look for signs that a stock is topping or bottoming out before they place a trade in the opposite direction. For example, reversal traders use tools such as the TICK, TICKI, Put Call Ratio, volume, etc. to anticipate a change in trend.

■ Range Traders:
Range traders find stocks that have been trading within support and resistance levels and buy when a stock hits support and sell when it hits resistance. Range traders will be most successful in markets that are choppy and that have no real direction. Regardless of the type of trader, the most important aspect of day trading is the discipline to follow a set of rules and establishing your own money management principles which you live by.