LOL - hilarious title. And yeah, it usually turns out to be just that damn simple in hindsight. Day traders can spend a tremendous amount of time planning for too many scenarios. I was one of them years back. Best thing I ever did was to start auto depositing 85% of my investible income into my long term index funds every month whether they were up, down or sideways. The remaining 15% I trade intra day and I've become a much better day trader as a result.