Swing trading to get safely on a trend
The natural way to trade is to cut losses short. If you don’t keep them in check, you are an investor. Otherwise you are trading. Swing trading inherently makes use of the stop loss method. If after the entry the price swings into the wrong direction, any sort of swing trading should interpret that as […]
Swing trend trading
Trend trading is fine when there is a trend. But what to do when there is only volatility in the short run and the price always comes back? This is the heaven for swing traders, but is doesn’t need to be hell for trend traders. For one, there are always independently moving investment targets. We […]
Growth stocks and swing trading
Trend trading could be the easiest and most lucrative trading style. There is just one caveat and that is the entry. If you manage to enter trends safely, you have turned on your private money printing press. The real problem is of course that only a fraction of all spotted trends go ahead after you […]
The simple swing trading system
Swing trading in the sense of surfing the waves with a time frame of days or weeks is most suitable for autotrading. There is no fundamental information necessary. It is all technical and that’s the reason why it could be done completely by a swing trading algorithm in a software system. The trader should still […]
Swing trading married with value investing
Combining different trading systems may lead to astonishing results. We always wanted to marry the investor with the trader and put together the advantages from both market philosophies, right? Promising as a starting point looks the modern version of value investing, which is of course growth trend investing. The selection of growth stocks that are […]
Swing trading signals in the trend
The swing traders consider themselves often as the happiest of all traders. Prices go up and prices go down and they make money all the time. But this is an illusion. One that could become quickly expensive. In a market that produces smooth swings, swing trading works exceptionally well. Unfortunately this is the wrong criterion. […]
Trading trends between pivot points
Exploiting a trend between two pivot points is… swing trading, but it could also be trend trading or even trend following. There are two styles of trading a trend. Getting onto a trend with a tight stop and then loosen the stop if the position gets into positive territory is one of them. In the […]
Swing trading the restarts of a trend
The smoother a trend the better is it. This is especially true for very rough or swingy trends. If a trend has since a month no single day a pullback, it may be more or less equal to one with a one or two day dip. But if the pullbacks are stronger, we need a […]
Trend oscillators and swing indicators
Or is it the other way round? It doesn’t matter, because an indicator is the same as an oscillator. Swing and trend trading seem to imply something here, but both are fixed trading system algorithms, mostly defined in simple formulas. Eventually they are the materialized believe that there is the holy trading grail. The financial […]
Trend or swing trading?
Technical traders love trend and swing trading. What works better? The answer is of course trend trading. But why? The driving force of swing trading is some form of exaggeration. The price is overshooting in one direction and then after finally coming to a halt the countermove begins to start, which causes similar trades. An […]
