How long can a scalp trade last? How quick can a swing trade be?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by easymon1, Nov 25, 2021.

  1. A scalp trade can last for as long as a few minutes and a swing trade can be as quick as 1 or 2 days. The biggest difference is that you don’t hold scalp trades overnight (not even for a few hours) while swing positions are held overnight.
     
    #11     Dec 7, 2021
  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    In my mind, scalping is differentiated from the others in what the term implies.

    Scalping is just "taking a little off the top". Which is what Native Americans actually did. They took a little off the top of their victims. So scalping is just grabbing a few ticks.

    The rest of the terms are time-based. Day for intraday, swing/position for multidays/weeks/months.

    With those definitions in mind, there cannot be a swing-scalp in that sense, although one could try to scalp a few ticks over many days, by having a 3 tick target with a 1000 tick stop.
     
    #12     Dec 8, 2021