Swing Trading For Dummies

by Omar Bassal

Overview

Swing trading is named after the strategy of taking advantage of brief price swings in strongly trending stocks and riding the momentum in the trends' direction--buying if the trend is up or selling short if the trend is down. Swing Trading For Dummies provides readers with expert advice and information on how to increase their profits and limit their risks by using this popular trading method. It includes information on understanding the markets, trading rules, managing risk, using leverage, trading with fundamentals, understanding technical analysis, and sample trading plans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781394288434
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Omar Bassal, CFA, is a Chief Investment Officer with thirty years’ experience trading stocks. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting into the Swing of Things 5

Chapter 1: Swing Trading from A to Z 7

Chapter 2: Understanding the Swing Trader’s Two Main Strategies 27

Chapter 3: Focusing on the Small Stuff: The Administrative Tasks 43

Part 2: Timing Is Everything: Technical Analysis 59

Chapter 4: Charting the Market 61

Chapter 5: Asking Technical Indicators for Directions 89

Chapter 6: Trend Following or Trading Ranges 117

Part 3: Incorporating Fundamental Analysis into Your Swing Trading Plan 139

Chapter 7: The Macro (Economy) and Micro (Business) 141

Chapter 8: So, What’s This Company Worth? 163

Chapter 9: Assessing a Company’s Stock: Six Tried-and-True Steps 187

Chapter 10: Sourcing: How to Find Swing Trading Candidates 205

Part 4: Planning the Trade and Trading the Plan 221

Chapter 11: Fail Fast: Managing Risk 223

Chapter 12: Knowing Your Entry and Exit Strategies 249

Chapter 13: Walking through a Trade, Swing-Style 263

Chapter 14: Looking at the Scoreboard to Evaluate Your Performance 281

Part 5: The Part of Tens 297

Chapter 15: Ten Simple Rules for Swing Trading 299

Chapter 16: Ten Deadly Mistakes of Swing Trading 309

Appendix: Helpful Resources for

Today’s Swing Trader 317

Index 327