When you learn how to day trade stocks, you open up an enormous number of opportunities to make money online. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of pictures on social media of day traders living a very luxurious lifestyle. You can absolutely make money by being a day trader and trading stocks online; however, there is also the less glamorous part: losing money. If you want to have success as a day trader and make consistent money over extended periods of time, risk management is a skill that must be learned and implemented in your day trading strategy. As you’ll see, the first stock trade I made ended up losing me money… but, there was still time left in the day. How did I do afterwards? Let’s see what happens as I keep my strategy in motion and trade the stocks that I believe will help me make money.