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Day trading, swing trading, and position trading compared
The "Stock investing strategies" course covered order types, a light touch on position sizing, and building an exit strategy, but it never asked a question that has to come first: how long do you actually intend to hold a trade before you get in? That single decision, your trading style, shapes almost everything downstream of it, from how much screen time a strategy demands to which costs eat into your returns the most, because it determines which kind of information is actually relevant to your decision, a five-minute order-flow spike matters for a day trade and is pure noise for a position held for months.