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Articles & Books From Omar Bassal, CFA
Learn how to maximize profits and minimize risks trading over the short term Swing Trading For Dummies introduces you to a trading methodology designed to generate big profits in the short term. Unlike buy and hold investing, Swing Traders endeavor to enter a stock at the precise moment a major uptrend begins and exit for a large profit a few weeks or months later.
Article / Updated 12-21-2021
In swing trading, stock traders hold an asset for one or more days, hoping to profit from price changes or "swings."Swing trading can and should be enjoyable. But swing trading is still a business, so you must stick to certain rules designed to keep you in the game. After all, if you have no capital, you can’t trade.
Article / Updated 08-30-2019
Swing trading is the art and science of profiting from securities’ short-term price movements spanning a few days to a few weeks. Swing traders can be individuals or institutions. They’re rarely 100 percent invested in the market at any time. Rather, they wait for low-risk opportunities and attempt to take the lion’s share of a significant move.
Article / Updated 08-30-2019
When you know the maximum amount of capital you want to allocate to a single position — based on the percent of capital approach or the risk level approach — you’re ready to take a step back and see the forest for the trees.The risk of focusing on individual securities at the expense of your portfolio is a simultaneous breakdown of several positions.
Article / Updated 08-30-2019
Swing traders rely on a variety of products and services to analyze potential trades and stay sharp in their work. This article provides more details on the top ten resources. These resources aren’t necessities, but they do help you quickly identify financial securities and monitor their activity. Other resources keep you sharp on your game.
Article / Updated 08-30-2019
When swing trading, it's important to manage risks. When you know how to determine how risky a stock is, you can use that information to guide how you manage its risk in the context of your portfolio. Managing risk at the individual stock level means making sure that no single position destroys your portfolio.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-04-2022
Swing trading can result in significant gains for your portfolio but involves risks that must be managed. Not every day is a good day to swing trade because the market may not be cooperative. And even when the market is cooperative, you should only trade stocks in strong industry groups to maximize the chances of success.
Article / Updated 03-06-2019
The most important determinant of whether you'll be a successful swing trader is how well you manage risk. Ask yourself these questions before placing a trade to ensure you don't cut corners:
Is the security liquid?
Is the security a penny stock (hopefully not)?
Are you prepared to limit losses at the individual stock level?
Article / Updated 03-06-2019
Being a successful swing trader calls for many skills, including the ability to assess the relative strengths of various market sectors. If you determine which stage the economy is in and then use that information as you review the following chart, then you’ll have a good idea which economic sectors are likely to lead the market in the near future.
Article / Updated 03-06-2019
To succeed with swing trading, you need to know how to read market indicators. Make a swing trade that’s more likely to yield good results by getting to know the following signs of favorable conditions. (Just keep in mind that no trade is a sure money-maker.)
The market is on your side. A rising tide lifts all boats.