What to trade?

Often traders are confused about what markets they should trade. The best way of finding out is to research a particular market and watch it. Some key points to observe are whether there is enough liquidity, volatility, times of day the issue is most active, risk/reward potential, required funds to trade it. Once all that is determined paper-trade the market to see if your methodology works. For day trading and my methodology my preferred issue is the Futures e-mini Russell 2000 currently traded on the CME, but soon to be handed off to ICE