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Advantages and disadvantages of swing trading
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Day Trading
Day trading is usually done by entering a stock or forex position and
closing that trade at the end of the same trading day. Day trading
takes experience and knowledge of the markets you are trading.
Advantages of day trading
If you are a disciplined trader and can make 10 or more trades a day
then you will be successful if you are experienced at getting in and
out of multiple trades. The profitable day traders are experts at
chart reading in fast markets and know how to trade gaps at the open.
Day traders will have fast internet connections and fast computer set
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Disadvantages
of day trading
New traders will lose most of their stock or forex trading capitol in
a short time. Their inexperience will cost them in the long run.
Emotions of fear and greed will be the novices down fall when day
trading. Making trades against most market makers will be tough to do
with out experience trading against the different markets. Knowing how
to read level II platforms is not for the new traders.
Swing Trading
Swing trading is buying and selling a stock or forex position over
several days to several weeks. A good charting system will provide
longer term set ups for the swing trader.
Advantages of swing traders
Swing trading is where the largest amount of traders succeed. Traders
can see the longer term charts and make proper buy and sell positions.
The weekly time frames make for smart trading decisions. Swing traders
can plan their trading decisions without the pressure of trying to day
trade. They can set their buy and sell positions over a longer time
frame especially when the markets are range bound.
Disadvantages of swing trading
Swing trading is not as exciting as day trading. The forex market can have
large moves due to news and this will be more advantages for day
traders. When the currency market is in an uptrend or down trend there
could be several buying or selling opportunities so if your impatient
then swing trading might not be for you.
No matter what type of trading you like you still need to be disciplined
and set you stop losses and take profits. You need to set your charts
to 1 or 5 minutes if you day trade or longer term for swing traders.
You need to make sure to check support and resistance levels no matter
what type of trading you do. You should study your charts and
recognize when a stock or forex pair are chopping and range bound.
Make sure to protect you capitol with stop loss orders and stick with it.
Let your winners run and follow with a trailing stop. Once you in the
money move your stops to break even. Now you are in a free trade let
it stop out or continue to make money. If you do get stopped out at
you were at break even instead of letting the trade go against you.
This is how you preserve your trading capitol and become a profitable
stock or forex trader.
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