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Swing Trading: Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices

Swing trading is a popular strategy focusing on capturing short-term price swings within the financial markets. It involves buying or selling assets, such as stocks, currencies, or commodities, with the intention of profiting from price fluctuations that occur over a period of days to weeks.

Swing trading is particularly relevant in the financial markets due to its potential for generating profits through short-term price swings.
Risk management is of utmost importance in swing trading. Traders should determine the appropriate position sizing and risk-reward ratios for each trade.

Stock Trading: The Definitive Guide for Beginners

by Garrett Drinon

Can you make money trading?


What does it take to make consistent profits?


What is the absolute best way to get started?


If you’re a beginner trader or just looking to get started, you’re likely asking these questions. And you should be. I know how it feels. There is no established road-map to becoming a successful trader, so it can be difficult to know where to begin.

At one point, indeed not too long ago, I was in your shoes. I didn’t understand the basics of trading.

Jeff Holden trading

Scalping 101: All You Need to Know to Get Started With Scalp Trading

by Jeff Holden

Scalping. No word is more mysterious in the world of trading.


You hear so many traders and trading educators talk about it, but it’s so easy to be confused and not really know how to do it properly.


And if you don’t know how to do it right, you will lose a lot of money. Because when done wrong, scalping can easily become high-frequency gambling.


So let us save you from that terrible fate.

The Only Day Trading Guide a Beginner Will Ever Need

by Bella

Does anyone really make consistent money day trading?

Can YOU make money day trading?


How hard is it?


What does it really take?


And how does it all work in the real-world?


These are the questions most beginners have. And these are the questions that will be answered in this article.


Plus much more.


So if you’ve heard about day trading, but don’t know where to begin…

The Only Options Trading Guide a Beginner Will Ever Need

by Seth F.

So you want to learn all about options, but you’re worried about getting confused or overwhelmed? We’ve got you covered.


You might have heard that options trading is a great way to make additional income if you’re working a full-time job. Or perhaps you’re looking to enhance the returns of your investment account.


But the problem is that you just find options trading confusing and mysterious and don’t really know how to get started.

Well, the reality is that options are really easy to understand. All you need to do is take a few minutes to learn some simple concepts and then a whole new world of trading will open up to you that you probably never knew existed.

15 Best Day Trading Stocks YTD (2023)

by Justin Spero

Do you find yourself searching for the right stocks to day trade, only to end up with disappointing results again and again?


As Mike Bellafiore preaches to us at SMB Capital, “You are only as good as the stocks you trade.” You can be the best trader in the world, but you will lose money if you pick the wrong stock(s). Conversely, if you are an adequate trader and choose an outstanding stock to trade, you can profit handsomely.


To be a consistently profitable trader, you have to pick the right stocks to trade. There, I said it.


But what is the right stock? How do you determine which stocks are the best ones to trade?

The answer may bring you millions of dollars in trading profits.

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The PlayBook by Mike Bellafiore

The PlayBook utilizes a unique approach that is the closest thing to signing up for a "trader boot camp”. You’ll learn by "watching" new traders walk through actual trades, explain what they’ve tried to do, and try to survive brutally tough expert critiques.

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