Swing trading

You don't need the whole move. You need the middle.

Swing trading is holding for days to weeks: wait for a clean setup, take the fat part of the trend, get out. The opportunity is a chart you can explain — uptrend, a place to enter, a price that proves you wrong. Relaxfolio scans pullbacks, channels, and breakouts with real volume so you're not guessing from one name.

If you can't point to where you're wrong, you don't have a setup.

A pullback in an uptrend, a coil, a channel: each one has a price that invalidates it. Check earnings dates. Check whether related names are doing the same thing. Then size the trade so one loss is boring. That's the whole craft — the rest is waiting.

Opportunities to look for.

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Pullbacks

Uptrending stocks that have come back to the 150-day average. That's the location. The stop sits under the trend.

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Upward channels

Names riding parallel trend lines. Near the lower line is where swing traders usually look; a break of it is where they usually leave.

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Breakout stocks with high relative volume

A base break plus volume that isn't average. Volume is how you tell a real move from a twitch.

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Swing trading, plainly

What makes a setup? ▾
An uptrend, a place to enter, a price that proves you wrong, and no earnings print about to blow it up.
Why does relative volume matter? ▾
Average volume is tourists. Unusual volume is someone large. You want the second kind behind the move.
Why check earnings? ▾
An earnings print can wipe a technical setup overnight. If you can't live with the gap, don't hold through it.
Does Relaxfolio tell me what to trade? ▾
No. It finds setups that match what you asked for. You decide.

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