Swing Trading Strategies

Yes, you will be awarded with a certification from QuantInsti after successfully completing the online learning units.

No, there are no live or classroom sessions in the course. You can ask your queries on community and get responses from fellow learners and faculty members.

Yes, you can ask your queries related to the course on the community: https://quantra.quantinsti.com/community

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There is no admission criterion. You are recommended to go through the prerequisites section and be aware of skill sets gained and required to learn most from the course.

We respect your time, and hence, we offer concise but effective short-term courses created under professional guidance. We try to offer the most value within the shortest time. There are a few courses on Quantra which are free of cost. Please check the price of the course before enrolling in it. Once a purchase is made, we offer complete course content. For paid courses, we follow a 'no refund' policy.

Some of the course material is downloadable such as Python notebooks with strategy codes. We also guide you how to use these codes on your own system to practice further.

We focus on teaching these quantitative and machine learning techniques and how learners can use them for developing their own strategies. You may or may not be able to directly use them in your own system. Please do note that we are not advising or offering any trading/investment services. The strategies are used for learning & understanding purposes and we don't take any responsibility for the performance or any profit or losses that using these techniques results in.

Quantra environment is a zero-installation solution to get beginners to start off with coding in Python. While learning you won't have to download or install anything! However, if you wish to later implement the learning on your system, you can definitely do that. All the notebooks in the Quantra portal are available for download at the end of each course and they can be run in the local system just the same as they run in the portal. The user can modify/tweak/rework all such code files as per his need. We encourage you to implement different concepts learnt from different learning tracks into your trading strategy to make it more suited to the real-world scenario.

No. We provide you guidance on how to create strategy using different techniques and indicators, but no strategy is plug and play. A lot of effort is required to backtest any strategy, after which we fine-tune the strategy parameters and see the performance on paper trading before we finally implement the live execution of trades.

Lifetime access means that once you enroll in the course, you will have unlimited access to all course materials, including videos, resources, readings, and other learning materials for as long as the course remains available online. There are no time limits or expiration dates on your access, allowing you to learn at your own pace and revisit the content whenever you need it, even after you've completed the course. It's important to note that "lifetime" refers to the lifetime of the course itself—if the platform or course is discontinued for any reason, we will inform you in advance. This will allow you enough time to download or access any course materials you need for future use.

Swing traders will use a combination of technical and statistical indicators such as MACD, Williams fractals, ADX indicators to identify the swings. They can use screening tools to pick the stocks suitable for swing trading and showing trends.

To start swing trading you have to be well-versed with different techniques and tools. You should first create a swing trading plan which comprises the markets to trade, how to identify entry and exit points, and risk management. You should also consider systematic trading instead of discretionary trading. In systematic trading, you stick to the plan and do not change your entry or exit criteria depending on your emotions. The best place to start swing trading would be learning from a book or a course.

A swing trading strategy is a combination of different types of trading methods. It comprises a lot of things such as asset selection, entry, and exit criteria. You can use a combination of different technical indicators to enter into a trade, and stop-loss, take profit levels, and holding period to exit from the trade. The strategy also includes position sizing, etc.

While swing trading strategies can be used on a plethora of stocks, they are quite effective on trending stocks. This is due to the fact that since the stock is trending in the long term, there is less risk of the stock price moving opposite to the direction of a trade. You can use various indicators and techniques such as Hurst exponent and ADX to identify if the stock is trending or not.

In order to minimise the risk, you need to filter the stocks based on criteria such as liquidity and market capitalisation. This ensures you are trading in the right assets with less probability of unexpected adverse and random movements