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Swing trading is a speculative trading strategy in financial markets where a tradable asset is held for one or more days in an effort to profit from price changes or 'swings'. [1] A swing trading position is typically held longer than a day trading position, but shorter than buy and hold investment strategies that can be held for months or years.
Short term trading can be risky and unpredictable due to the volatile nature of the stock market at times. Within the time frame of a day and a week many factors can have a major effect on a stock's price. Company news, reports, and consumer’s attitudes can all have a positive or negative effect on the stock going up or down.
An intraday percentage gain is defined as the difference between the previous trading session's closing price and the intraday high of the following trading session. The closing percentage change denotes the ultimate percentage change recorded after the corresponding trading session's close.
US stocks closed mixed on Friday amid a low-volume day of trading following the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up about 0.3%, or more than 100 points higher, while ...
Major stock indexes on Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish Friday, capping a rare bumpy week for the market. The S&P 500 ended essentially flat, down less than 0.1%, after wavering between tiny ...
Stocks concluded last week on a hot streak as softer-than-expected inflation data fueled investor optimism around interest rate cuts. The Nasdaq Composite rose more than 3% while the S&P 500 ...
In some stock markets, the October Effect also referred to as the Mark Twain effect is the phenomenon of stock returns in October being lower than in other months. [1] The reference to Mark Twain comes from a line in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks.
The market is awaiting several more data points this week. Initial jobless claims, a third-quarter GDP revision, and personal consumption expenditures data are scheduled for release Wednesday morning.