Swing Trading for Beginners: A Complete Guide
I’ve spent years studying and trading short-term moves in stocks. What I’ve learned is that finding a chart pattern is only one part of the job. You also need a …
I’ve spent years studying and trading short-term moves in stocks. What I’ve learned is that finding a chart pattern is only one part of the job. You also need a …
People often ask which indicators work best for swing trading. I choose them based on what I need to understand about a stock and whether that information helps me evaluate …
I use TradingView’s Stock Screener to narrow down the stocks I review for swing trades. The filters below reflect my own approach to finding liquid stocks with enough price movement …
Many moving-average guides recommend a standard combination of short and long periods. I use moving averages more as references than as automatic signals: the faster lines help me manage strong …
There’s a lot of advice online about swing trading strategies, and it can be hard to know what to focus on. These are five setups I’ve traded and studied. I’ll …
I’ve probably read hundreds of trading books over the years. The ones that stay with me are the books that gave me something useful to study, question, or compare with …
A stock scan can narrow a large market down to a list of charts worth reviewing. It cannot tell you whether a stock has a clean setup or whether a …
Finviz has enough filters to make a simple stock screen complicated. I keep mine focused on the basic stock characteristics I prefer, then add revenue growth as an optional fundamental …
Dollar volume measures the value of shares traded during a bar. It helps me compare trading activity between stocks with different share prices. In TC2000, the basic dollar volume PCF …
When I started scanning, I sometimes treated the results as if they were trade ideas by themselves. I now separate the process into two steps: first build a list of …
My approach to swing trading has changed after years of studying charts and trading through different market conditions. The biggest improvement has been deciding what would make me enter, where …
ADR and ATR both measure how much a stock moves, but they do not measure the range in exactly the same way. I use percentage formulas when I want to …