Swing Trading Strategies

Swing Trading Strategies target multi-day to multi-week holds, capturing the bulk of intermediate-trend moves between major pivots. Swing trading's advantage is intellectual bandwidth. You're not chained to a screen managing intraday risk. while its disadvantage is wider stops and overnight gap risk. Position sizing must account for gap exposure: a 2% portfolio risk on a stock position can easily become a 4% loss on a gap-down open through your stop level.

The strategies here blend trend-continuation and reversal setups optimized for the 4-hour to Daily timeframe range. The 200-SMA bounce is the classical swing entry. A pullback to the 200-period moving average in an established uptrend, buying the reaction. Darvas Box breakouts trade consolidation-then-expansion on daily charts. Swing divergence fades overextended moves where momentum indicators (RSI, MACD) fail to confirm price extremes. Swing Pullback is a generic trend-continuation entry at 38.2%–61.8% retracement levels. Across all these strategies, the binding filter is trend strength: swing setups that look textbook in choppy ranges produce whipsaws, while the same setups in clean trending markets produce the winners that pay for a year of losses. Use ADX, weekly structure, or sector rotation confirmation to filter out ranging conditions before taking swing entries.