When market are trending and you are making money, trading seems to be the best profession in the world, But market like last week with fast volatile swing trading seems frustrating and difficult. Most of traders, begin their trading careers with lofty goals and a dream of making big , but those things “WILL” fade very quickly if you aren’t approaching the market from the right ‘angle’.
Trading success requires A winning mindset and trading on strategy and time frame which suits your personality. As a trader, and unless you have access to extremely large sums of money / the ability to withstand large draw downs, you are not going to last very long if you don’t employ the proper trading method.
I see most of traders doing intraday trading without having any edge and losing out as they are not equipped with risk and money management and most of them are working professional who cannot see the the market every mins. That's where Swing trading come in picture and should be used by all new traders to start with.
Swing Trading
The big players in the market, know where smaller retail traders place their orders and what they typically ‘do’ in the market (buy breakouts, day-trade, etc.). They know all the small-timer strategies and believe it or not, they enjoy taking your money every day in the market. You can’t survive without a stop loss, but they can, or at least they can for much longer than you or I. Also exchanges get lot of commissions when you do day trading with 10X leverage they provide, More you trade irrespective of you make or lose money, your exchange will always make money.
In short, day-trading is a game of professional traders who know there system better and focus on risk and money management and have very fast reflexes to change positions as per market conditions.
On the opposite end of the trading scale, we have position trading /Swing Trading in which you do not want to see market moves every min and you do not want to be over leveraged and you can wait for the trade to come.
That brings us to what I call the trading ‘sweet spot’; swing trading. If you don’t already know, here’s what swing trading is: Swing Trading is a method of technical analysis to help you spot strong directional moves in the market that last on average, two to six days. Swing trading allows individual traders like us to exploit the strong short-term moves created by large institutional traders who cannot move in and out of the market as quickly.
What is a ‘swing point’ in the market?
The chart below shows us what swing high points and swing low points look like. This market was trending higher, so as swing traders we would have looked for an entry near the swing lows…
Swing trading is the art and skill of reading a price chart to anticipate the next ‘swing’ in the market. I use Gann trading strategies to find high-probability entries in the market at these swing points and taking the trade with good risk to reward ratio.
Why you should become a swing trader
Focus on Higher time Frame:Daily/Weekly charts
Swing Trading allows you to skip all the market ‘noise’ of short time frames, like those under the 1-hour chart.
Swing trading on higher time frames like daily allows you to take the big move, and it also allows you to place your stop loss not so small which will get triggered easily , thus giving you greater ‘staying power’ so that you can stay in the market longer and increase your chances of getting aboard a big, profitable move.
Fit trading in around your schedule
Swing trading allows you to fit trading in around whatever busy schedule you may have, or if you don’t have a busy schedule it will allow you to make money trading and still enjoy your free time. There’s nothing more boring than having to sit in front of the charts all day, not to mention that it’s bad for your trading and your health.
Swing trading allows you to analyze the markets on your schedule, for short periods of time, because you are focusing on higher time frames as mentioned above.
People over-complicate their trading by simply being too involved. Swing trading is the best method because it’s complementary to how you should behave in the market because it rewards you for being less involved and taking less trades over time, which is exactly what you need to do if you want to have any chance at success.
