4 Common Active Trading Strategies

 

The process of purchasing and selling shares based on short-term changes in order to profit from price movements on a short-term stock chart is known as active trading. An active trading strategy requires a different mindset than a long-term, buy-and-hold strategy used by passive or indexing investors. Active traders think that earnings are gained by capturing market trends and short-term changes.

There are several approaches for implementing an active trading strategy, each with its own set of market conditions and hazards. Here are four of the most frequent active trading tactics, together with their associated costs.

1. Day Trading

The most well-known active trading style is probably day trading. It’s frequently used as an alias for active trading. Day trading, as the name suggests, is the practice of buying and selling securities on the same day.

Positions are closed out the same day they are taken in day trading, and no position is retained overnight. Professional traders, such as experts or market makers, have traditionally done day trading. However, electronic trading has made this practice accessible to new traders.

2. Position Trading

Some people regard position trading as a buy-and-hold technique rather than active trading. Position trading, on the other hand, when done by an experienced trader, might be considered active trading.

Position trading uses longer-term charts — ranging from daily to monthly — in conjunction with other approaches to determine the current market trend. Depending on the trend, this type of trade can continue from days to many weeks, or even longer.

To determine a security’s trend, trend traders look for successive higher or lower highs. Trend traders want to profit from both the up and downside of market movements by jumping on and riding the “wave.” Trend traders attempt to forecast market direction but do not attempt to foresee price levels.

Typically, trend traders enter a position after the trend has established itself, and when the trend breaks, they exit the position. This means that trend trading is more difficult during moments of significant market volatility, and its positions are often reduced.

3. Swing Trading

Swing traders generally enter the market when a trend breaks. Price volatility is common at the end of a trend when the new trend attempts to establish itself. Swing traders purchase or sell when price volatility occurs. Swing trades are typically kept longer than a day but for a shorter period of time than trend transactions. Swing traders frequently develop a set of trading rules that are based on technical or fundamental analysis.

These trading rules or algorithms are intended to determine when it is appropriate to buy and sell a security. While a swing-trading algorithm does not need to be precise in predicting the peak or valley of a price move, it does require a market that moves in one direction or the other.

4. Scalping

Scalping is one of the most rapid tactics used by active traders. It essentially comprises recognizing and exploiting bid-ask spreads that are somewhat wider or narrower than typical due to transient supply and demand imbalances.

A scalper does not attempt to capitalize on huge moves or transact in large numbers. Rather, they strive to profit from tiny, frequent swings with measured transaction volumes.

Because the reward per trade is tiny, scalpers seek out relatively liquid markets in order to maximize the frequency of their trades. Scalpers, as opposed to swing traders, seek tranquil markets with little volatility.

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