Trades held open for days to weeks. Sometimes mislabeled as Swing trader; the platform's term is Swing.
What this style is
Swing Trading (Swing) captures a single extended move lasting days to weeks. Not the minute-by-minute pulse and not multi-year investing: one clear wave from its likely bottom to its measured top, then out. It is the most workable style for someone who has a job and does not live at the screen.
Its distinguishing toolkit
Its decisions rest on daily and weekly timeframes (filtering out minute noise). Its levels are structural and hold for days (gamma walls, reference highs and lows). Its tools are medium-dated contracts (one to three months) that give the idea time without the last days' steep decay eating it.
Its own risk: overnight gaps
Unlike the intraday trader who sleeps flat, the swing trader carries the position through nights and holidays. After-hours news can open the stock past any stop. So position size is set on the gap scenario, not on the stop distance alone, and earnings season is crossed with reduced size or with structures whose loss is capped in advance.
Hypothetical example
A confirmed bounce off a structural Put Wall with a likely upward trend: enter with a two-month debit spread (not a weekly contract that dies before the idea matures), a stop behind the wall and a target at the opposite Call Wall. Then do nothing for ten days except an evening review that the conditions still hold.
Common mistake
Managing a weeks-long trade with a minutes-long nervous system: someone who opens a multi-day position and then stares at the five-minute chart kills their correct trades at the first wave of counter-noise. The timeframe the idea was built on is the only timeframe for managing it.
Where to see it on the platform
The signal model builds ideas with medium time horizons and structural levels, and the gamma and environment boards pick the pattern that suits the moment best.
