What is Swing Trading and how you can mint money with Swing Trading?

Swing trading is a type of fundamental trading. Stocks are bought in anticipation of a price movement and then sold a few days later to obtain a profit on the transaction. Swing traders can hold on to a stock anywhere from 3-4 days to a few weeks, and rely on the swinging pattern of stocks to derive their profit. Like a swing, that oscillates in a fairly predictable pattern, stock prices to go up and down periodically. Swing traders look at the price movement based on a fundamentalist approach that accounts for events like upcoming profit announcements, and new business policies to predict whether a stock will increase or decrease in value, and then purchase stock accordingly.

Learning how to swing trade like a professional Trader

Swing trading relies on your ability to identify stocks that will change their value very quickly, and then invest in them to take advantage of the price movement. This essentially means that you will need to learn how to analyze the market for price movements of companies, and at the same time you will have to figure out what causes these price movements, so that you can identify similar opportunities in the future with greater ease.

Swing charts are an essential part of being a swing trader and you will need to learn to read them like a pro! Choosing the market and the kind of stock that you invest in is also necessary, and most swing traders prefer to invest in large cap companies since they are heavily traded and show the most variations in their prices.

The pros and cons of being a swing trader

As with any kind of trading, there are advantages, as well as disadvantages of becoming a swing trader. One must evaluate them all carefully and then decide whether being a swing trader is feasible for them.

Pros of Swing Trading

• Swing trading requires you to put in only a medium amount of time. It is not excessively fast paced like day trading, and at the same time it does not require you to sit on your investment for months like trend trading.
  
• You do not need to devote all your time to it. Once you have made an investment, you can carry on with your other works, check on the prices periodically, and when the price approaches your predicted value, you cash out.
  
• Learning to create a strategy for swing trading is a lot easier than that for day trading.
  

Cons of Swing Trading

• You have to wait for some time to find out whether your prediction methodology is correct, and whatever system that you have in place will have to run its course. You may want to get updates after short intervals, but there will rarely be any significant changes.
  
• It takes greater discipline to become a swing trader, as you need to be able to have faith in your own decision, and not let your emotions to make your decisions for you.