The question we are asked most often is, what is Swing Trading? Everyone has heard of Day Trading and Buy And Hold investing, but it seems most people do not understand what it means to be a swing trader.  Essentially Swing Trading is day trading for the regular guy with a job and a real life, it is day trading without the stress of being in front of your screen all day. It can all be done in a couple of minutes in the evening after the market is closed. Trade durations are usually over a period of anywhere from a couple of days to a week or more but usually less. We place our stop buy limit orders based on the price we pre-determine, then place our stop loss orders once we are in the trade. There are different types of swing traders just like there are different types of day traders. We consider ourselves trend followers, we attempt to identify stocks that are moving in a bearish or bullish trend.
