Tag Archives: Swing Trading

Swing Trading vs Day Trading: Which Actually Compounds Monthly Returns With Shallow Drawdowns?

And What the Death of the Pattern Day Trader (“PDT”) Rule Means for You day trading vs. swing trading

 Most trading careers don’t end in a dramatic blow-up. They end in attrition: an equity curve that grinds sideways with violent swings, a strong month handed back to one overnight gap, an edge quietly eaten alive by spreads and slippage, and a trader burned out from staring at screens for outcomes that never compound.

If that pattern is familiar, the usual question — “which style suits my personality?” — is the wrong one. That’s the amateur’s question. The professional question is colder: which trading style is structurally built to deliver a compounding monthly return,

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Trading for Beginners: How to Start Without Getting Wiped Out by the Next Bear Market

Trading for beginners

 

Between 2020 and 2024, the number of UK adults using an investment platform jumped from 4.4 million to 7.9 million — an 80% leap in just four years (Investment Trends / FCA data). At the same time, mandatory FCA risk disclosures show that 71% to 79% of retail CFD traders lose money at the UK’s largest brokers (IG 71%, CMC 76%, eToro 77%, Plus500 79%).

Two numbers, one uncomfortable question for anyone asking how to get into trading: if so many people are piling in, why are so many losing — and what are the survivors doing differently?

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Pair Trade Stocks: Monday Morning Thoughts on Learning

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Trade of the Month May 2019: PPBI v WAL

Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI:Nasdaq) vs. Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL:NYSE)

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Here at PairTrade Finder® we look to trade pairs with high cointegration, correlation and win rate.

This great stock pair, PPBI/WAL, is part of our Top 30 US Equities Pairs.  In backtesting, it produced 10 trades with a 90% Win Rate over the past 2 years.  That result equates to a Total Gross Profit of $4,788, an average win of $435/trade and a 17.4% CAGR (unlevered).  What’s more, these results were delivered with only a 9.1% Max Drawdown*.  

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Thoughts for Productive Monday Morning Trading

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