I'm aware that this may be a stupid question to some but I'm baffled that when I'm placing my stop loss in DAS that they disappear the next day? I queried with DAS tech support and they responded along the lines of... "Kindly note unfortunately all open orders are cancelled by the route provider during the after-hours period. " So, for those that swing trade. How do you keep a stop loss order on your positions? Do you place them again every day? Or is there a magical way to keep a stop loss order live until it's hit or you manually exit the trade ..read more

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Hi Everyone. We are slowly expanding on the Swing Trading platform and wanted to let you know that you can sign up for swing trading opportunity alerts. The sign up forum is at the bottom of the Swing Trading section (under the "Other Trading" tab) on the BBT website.  We will not be using your email to blast you with ads and other info.  It will only be used to send trade opportunity alerts.  What we hope is to give you more timely information on opportunities that come up throughout the trading day.  These are not recommendations to buy or sell securities but they will gi ..read more

Hi everyone and welcome to our new forum on swing trading. As you likely know, swing trading involves taking positions in a stock or other security and holding that position for as short as overnight to days or weeks or even longer.  If you are new to swing trading and want to learn more, reading Brian Pezim's book "How to Swing Trade" would be a good starting point.  It is available on Amazon. We expect this forum will be used by our members to present and openly discuss swing trading opportunities.  The one advantage of swing trading is that the trader has the opportunity to s ..read more

I am sharing an example of a preliminary analysis for swing trading per attachments. Please feel free to send comments and discussions for benefit of out BBT Forum team. The graphical analysis was prepared with drawing tools commonly provided with trading platforms. I have seen questions from our Forum members on what platform to use. The idea is once you have a Trading Plan and know what you need for your trading analysis then you can look for these tools in your platform. So in the end your trading platform is compatible with your Trading Plan, Please note this is no ..read more

To all  traders could you please answer this 3 question survey for me? I am collecting data for a project. Thanks in advance!! * your personal data is NOT collected   https://forms.gle/nGuzH4fCvYX8z9Sj9 ..read more

Hi there I am sharing a sample watchlist and sample chart setup for swing trading volatile stocks for microtrend-term. The methodology contains/combines information generally discussed in the intermediate-term and short-term swing trading plans posted earlier. The watchlist is prepared with scan criterion of stock HLVolatility ( > 5%), Beta ( > 1), ATR ( > 2.00) and 50-day average volume ( > 4M) on Thinkorswim. The chart set-up incorporates exponential moving averages on 1-hour time frame. The chart includes at least 4 weeks of 1-hour data to identify potential suppo ..read more

Hi there I am sharing a sample swing trading plan for intermediate-term swing trading with a strategy  to enter a trade upon breakout from a chart pattern. This is for discussion purposes only. Please feel free to send comments/discussions so our BBT Forum can benefit from same.  The sample plan is based on information from instructor training, textbooks, Webinars, other swing trading plans, and information available on the internet over last few years. One good point up front is to keep things simple and this seems to be working for me. This is a sample base Stock Tra ..read more

I am sharing an example of a preliminary graphical analysis for swing trading per attachment to have an idea on the markets with Index CFDs. Please feel free to send comments and discussions for benefit of out BBT Forum team. From the graphs we see general divergence between price action and oscillators. This suggests to me to be cautious with long positions at this stage for swing trading. The graphical analysis was prepared with drawing tools commonly provided with trading platforms. The pin bar is a custom indicator by the broker at extra cost. As per earlier note, I have seen question ..read more