Swing trading
- A style of trading that attempts to capture short- to medium-term gains in a stock (or any financial instrument) over a period of a few days to several weeks
- Primarily use technical analysis to look for trading opportunities.
- These traders may utilize fundamental analysis in addition to analyzing price trends and patterns
- c.f., technical analysis
- evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistical trends gathered from trading activity, such as price movement and volume.
- focuses on the study of price and volume. Technical analysis tools are used to scrutinize the ways supply and demand for a security will affect changes in price, volume and implied volatility.
- c.f., fundamental analysis
- The end goal is to arrive at a number that an investor can compare with a security's current price in order to see whether the security is undervalued or overvalued.
- studys anything that can affect the security's value, from macroeconomic factors such as the state of the economy and industry conditions to microeconomic factors like the effectiveness of the company's management.
- For stocks, fundamental analysis uses revenues, earnings, future growth, return on equity, profit margins, and other data to determine a company's underlying value and potential for future growth.
- All of this data is available in a company's financial statements
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