Swing Trading May be Right For You If: You have grown disillusioned with pathetically low returns on buy-and-hold investing and believe there's a better way. Swing Trading May be More Your Speed If: You don't have time to watch the markets all day or are exhausted by the mind-numbing monotony of day trading Swing Trading is Definitely For You If: You have observed that you would have actually made money if you had taken the exact opposite positions for your previous stock trades. Why is Swing Trading the Preferred Approach? Did you know that all trading methods attempt to take advantage of one of the three following scenarios in price movement? * Breakouts: Trades are entered based on new high or low prices. * Retracements: Trades are entered once prices pull back against an existing trend. * Top and Bottoms: Trades are entered when the market is perceived to have advanced or declined too far. That little tidbit of knowledge puts you ahead of 50% of most traders in the market today who blindly trade a method without really knowing what it is really trying to accomplish. But which method is best?? I'll show you how to take advantage of all of these scenarios by swing trading, which is by far the most efficient approach to making money in the stock market. The chart on the right shows an example of price swings on a typical stock price chart. Rather than waiting long periods of time for a stock to move in the anticipated direction (as in traditional buy-and-hold investing) you can multiply your profits in the same period of time with both long and short trades. Almost $10,000 more would have been made if you traded the up and down swings vs. just buying and holding this stock! In addition, when compared to day trading, swing trading is a far more efficient trading style, as the cost of doing business is substantially lower due to commissions not being generated on a daily basis. Swing traders also tend to partake in a larger portion of price moves.