Swing Trading

Swing trading is about riding the fluctuations , the ups/downs within the trend in one higher time frame. viz. If the weekly trend is up then one tries to capture daily extremes against/with the trend. The moves with the trend are of course safer. This ensures that you get off the bus whenever a trend change happens in working time frame even though the longer term trend may be intact.

The advantage is one does not see one's position showing no profits after sitting through long time as may happen in trend trading. Second advantage is the active trders feel they are doing something and not sitting idle like in trend trading.

Getting in and out of positions means more expenses such as brokerage, slippages etc.

Swing trading is a concept and can be applied to almost any time frame, short terms to long term plays.

If done successfully one can increase the returns substantially as one not only catches the big move overall but many more ups and downs within that move.