Day trading is really a loss making proposition for most traders and I have seen the same over the past 3 years. Unless you have a time tested intraday setup & strictly follow the setup its difficult to make money. That's cause money is made from trends & trending markets. Day trading is not suited for it as a large portion of the gains would come from gap ups or gap downs, leaving very little to make during the day. The other way to trade is to do range based trading, buying at some low point & selling at some high point during the day. But from my experiance, its difficult to do both, often you get both wrong, even if you get right, the risk-reward would be difficult to get more than 2:1. With that kind of ratio & day trades generally having lower win ratios, making money is difficult. And most traders lose the discipline of having stops & one such bad trade where you leave out or dont follow ur stop, leaves you losing much more than you would have made in last 10-15 trades.