Day trading or swing trading refers to the practice of buying and selling multiple stocks within a single day. It is the perfect vehicle for the short term intra-day type trader, who would like to hold on to a position for a short time, a few minutes or a few hour, and squares their positions prior to the end of the day. Day Trading The stock or futures day trader is someone who is making trades intraday. They tend to do this with frequency throughout the day. A day trader may trade a few times per day or dozens of times per day. Swing Trading The swing trader could be a stock, option or futures investor. This type of trader is looking to take strategic bites out of the stock market that can stretch over a day or multiple days and weeks. Long Term Swing Trading The long term swing trader is very much like the regular swing trader, the only difference is their focus is on weeks and months as opposed to normal swing traders who focus on singular days. Day and swing trading involve ta