r/swingtrading

Suggestion to pick stock for swing and intraday also best way to learn the trading

🚨 TOP DAILY STOCKS - Sep 21

Lets hump the hedgies today

Trading Week Ahead: $SPY $QQQ Levels + Earnings & Economic Calendar

Heading into the new week, I'm keeping an eye on $SPY and $QQQ while the market continues to digest last week's Fed decision. The calendar is lighter, but there are still a few potential volatility windows: PMI data Wednesday, jobless …

I built a system that grades its own stock calls vs SPY — and publishes when it's wrong. Looking for blunt traders to test it

New to the group

I'm just beginning my apprenticeship. I have an IBKR account and am currently paper trading with both free AIs- GPT and GEMINI on my team. I'm basically following their advice, and trying to construct a 2 day- 8 month timeline. …

How I Trade: My Multi-Timeframe Swing + Day Trading Strategy 2 Years Self Taught

I’ve spent a lot of time simplifying my trading because I realized I was making things more complicated than they needed to be. My current approach is a **multi-timeframe market-structure strategy** built around higher-timeframe direction, 12H confirmation, and 4H execution. …

Planning for Market Reversal

I’ve been swing trading for 4-5 years using basic trendlines and have worked out a system that’s working well and provides income. My system is biased on longs and I rarely short. I select stocks based on them being in …

I’ve built two stock-selection approaches (swing and intraday) — how flawed are these ideas?

How does futures work?

I dont seem to understand this. I understand how futures trading are contracts you sign to sell a commodity at a set price in a set date, but I do not understand how this works in practice. How are the …