During my many years in the trading and trading education world, I have been a day trader, swing trader, and longer term position trader. While my strategy has never changed, the time horizon for finding opportunities and holding positions has changed a bit over my career. Also, I have the benefit of watching so many traders within Online Trading Academy attempt to become successful day, swing, and position traders. The focus of today’s piece is to explain the differences between day, swing, and position trading, and also explore the advantages and disadvantages to these different styles. Day Trading Day trading is ... (full story)