What are some good websites and books that cover strategies, tips, and info on successful swing or position trading in today’s stock market?

Good books (to start with);
Mastering The Trade, John Carter
Trading In The Zone, Mark Douglas
Market Wizards, Jack Schwager
The Wallstrip edge, Howard Linzon
Technical Analysis Using Multiple time Frames, Brian Shannon

For good free scanning;

http://finviz.com/index.ashx

Other sites;

http://tradermike.net/

http://www.slopeofhope.com/

http://www.alphatrends.net/

http://www.thekirkreport.com/

Good luck. This stuff is hard work. Fun. And if you’re lucky…. a passion.

what chart period should i look at in swing trade. i usually look at 1 month chart with macd,rsi,stockastic,volume and also support.

i like the 90 charts it helps me back test and predict, take a look at some technical analysis techniques, it might help you be a better swing trader, good luck my friend and make lots of money

When I say capital, I dont mean the amount I need if I want to make living out of it.Just want teh requirements for say, 1-2 trades per day.

you don’t need much at all.

especially with the picks the site below gives you.

this is who i use.

go to: http://tinyurl.com/4reu8z

they average 400% returns on very little investment.

they don’t have many spots left on their newsletter.

last time i checked it was like 27 or so.

good luck.

now is the BEST time to get in…

I’m looking to make money using swing trading. what is a good setup for a good swing trade?

I find some of the most highly profitable trades are failed bull and bear moves (bull and bear traps). This is where a stock breaks out of a support or resistance zone for a relatively short time and then quickly falls back into the support/resistance zone on high volume. Many times it will move to the other end of the zone. Failed moves are fast moves.

I wanted to know if you have to pay back any of your unemployment due to capital gains from swing trading. I never took the money from my account and it is current still in stock but I did buy and sell the stocks. Most of the stocks were not held for less than 6 months.

No since income and capital gains are different.
Only income affects your unemployment

So I think swing trading may be the trading strategy I want to go with when I start investing in the stock market. What are some good books I can read about swing trading to better my knowledge?

How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil

Investment strategy, which combines technical and fundamental analysis. 248 pgs. Full description by the publisher of Daily Graphs of his famous CANSLIM stock

FROM THE PREFACE: America is the world’s leader in successful new, entrepreneurial companies. Many are in the computers, communications, and technology sectors. Others are in the medical, retail, and leisure and entertainment industries. As an investor, you should develop the skills and acquire the knowledge necessary to recognize and invest in the fast-growing, innovative companies that comprise our New America.

But how do you pick which stocks to buy and how can you significantly minimize the risk you take in buying stocks? And, most importantly when do you sell your stocks? This book will answer all of those questions for you.

How to Make Money in Stocks gives you a simple, easy-to-use system called C-A-N S-L-I-M. The method is based on an exhaustive, ongoing analysis of every big winning stock each year since 1953. Each letter in C-A-N S-L-I-M stands for one of the seven key factors that all of these past super winners had in common. So, this is not some theoretical or academic method. This is based on how the stock market actually works.

How well does the C-A-N S-L-I-M method work? It is the best method devised and available for individual investors, whether new or experienced. More than 200,000 people have attended our free investment seminars and all day paid workshops where the method is explained in detail. At each session, many people tell us how they made 50% or 100% in the previous year using the C-A-N S-L-I-M system.

David Ryan was the first to use the method in the US Investing Championship and won three years in a row. He invested his own money in an actual account that was monitored by CPAs. He averaged over 100% per year and is now the portfolio manager of the New USA Mutual Fund.

Cid Moses entered the contest in 1991 using the method and came in first with a record-setting 379%. Lee Freestone, one of our associates came in second that year with a 279% increase using C-A-N S-L-I-M. In 1994 Lee won it with a 234% increase. The Dow Jones Industrials that year increased 13.7%. There are numerous other examples, such as Dan Running of the University of Baltimore, who won the USA Today championship with a 115% increase in 1994; and Jay Plisco of Cold Spring Harbor, New York who won the 1995 Fidelity Investment Challenge by using C-A-N S-L-I-M for an impressive 135% gain.

You may want to read this book a couple of times to get it all down, but anyone can learn to invest more successfully if he or she is willing to work at it. And why shouldn’t you learn to capitalize on and benefit financially from the most successful entrepreneurial companies in America?

How to Make Money in Stocks took me many years to write, and I’ve now been in the battlefield of the financial marketplace for 40 years. So this book can and should help you avoid most of the pitfalls all investors face in this treacherous arena.

In the long run, the U.S. market always goes up because businesses create new products, new services, and new technological inventions. It is the companies with the best new products and services that serve the most people that are always the top stock market winners.

In the last 100 years, the stock market has had 25 bear market declines. These were natural corrections of the previous bull market advances. Every time the market recovered and ultimately soared back into new high ground. So don’t get sidetracked by the vast number of gloom and doomers. They rarely have made money for anyone. Besides, I don’t ever remember meeting a successful pessimist.

In the early 1960’s, William O’Neil & Co. created the first daily computer database on the stockmarket in the United States. In 1970, we created Datagraphs, institutional investors’ service. Today, more than 600 top institutional investors take a wide variety of our research services. We also publish Daily Graphs, a daily charting service provided weekly and designed for individual investors.

In 1983, I created the basic format for a new national daily business and financial newspaper, Investor’s Business Daily. Investor’s Business Daily made major advances in the quality and availability of vital, relevant information for all public investors and people and business. Sold nationally in every city the newspaper is the fastest-growing newspaper in the United States. It has steadily taken share of market away from the century-old Wall Street Journal.

For those still uncertain if C-A-N S-L-I-M really works, William O’Neal & Co. was started with profits made in Syntex stock in 1963 and Investor’s Business Daily was built and promoted with profits made in Pic N Save Price Co., and Amgen.

I bought the Day Trading Robot from http://hardcoresoftware.net and love it and can see why it is best for swing trading but what is the best software for free? I guess no one wants to trust their money to a free program but just for kicks or practice, what would the software be?

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