Swing Trading
Swing trading is holding a position for days to weeks to capture the part of a trend between the pullback and the next leg. You are not trying to scalp...
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Swing trades held for days to weeks, written up with the setup and the reasoning rather than as a bare call. Everything here is built on a daily-chart view.
Swing trades held for days to weeks, written up with the setup and the reasoning rather than as a bare call. Everything here is built on a daily-chart view.
For the method behind them, start with the swing trading guide, then the market you trade: stocks, options, futures or forex.
Swing trading is holding a position for days to weeks to capture the part of a trend between the pullback and the next leg. You are not trying to scalp...
Stocks are where most people start swing trading, and for good reason: the market is liquid, the instrument is easy to reason about, and you can trade it in...
Options let you take a multi-day view on a stock or an index with less capital and a defined maximum loss. They also add two costs that a stock position...
Futures are contracts, not shares. That changes three things a swing trader has to handle: you trade on margin rather than paying in full, the contract...
The currency market trades around the clock on weekdays, which means there is always a session open and always a reason to be flat. It is also the market...
An indicator is arithmetic applied to price and volume. It does not see the future and it does not know anything the chart does not already contain - it...
Risk management is the part of swing trading that decides whether you are still trading next year. It is also the part that gets the least attention...
Traderade runs a Discord for traders who work on the daily chart: swing traders in stocks, options, futures and currencies who want ideas with a reason...
I love trading indicators. I enjoy coding my own and learning from other coders about strategies they are working on systematizing. Over the past few years I've been...
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