Swing trading is for people who cannot watch a screen all day. You hold a position for days or weeks, checking the chart once after the close, and let a bigger move play out. This course teaches it in ten short lessons, about five minutes each, in order. Each one builds on the last.

Start at Lesson 1 and work down. No sign-up, no fluff. When a lesson points you to a deeper guide, follow it if you want more, or keep moving and come back later.

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The 10 lessons

1
What Swing Trading Really Is
Holding for days to weeks, and the trade-offs.
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2
The Timeframes That Matter
Why the daily chart is your home base.
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3
Reading the Daily Chart
What each daily candle is telling you.
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4
Finding the Trend
Trade with the daily trend, not against it.
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5
Key Levels
Where swings turn, and how to mark them.
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6
The Best Swing Setups
The few that work day in, day out.
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7
Entries and Timing
Getting in without nailing the exact bottom.
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8
Stops and Position Sizing
Wider stops, overnight gaps, and the math.
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9
Managing the Trade
Holding through noise and taking profits.
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10
Your Swing Routine
A simple repeatable process, tied together.
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Then practice it

The hard part of swing trading is scanning your watchlist after the close and deciding what is worth a trade. ChartRead makes that fast. Drop in a chart or a ticker and it gives you the pattern, the confirmation level, and the invalidation in about 30 seconds, so you can check your read and practice the setups risk-free in the built-in paper-trading account before you risk real money.

Practice what you learn

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