Thread: Short Term Vs. Long Term Trading

Views on egies and the benefits of trading will be appreciated.

For the last few months I have been working on this but cannot find a way.

Am I missing something?

Thank you alot. . I love your awnser.

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chickey long term or short term is all the same, price is constant. There is NO TIME FRAMES.

Time frames have been created to make sense of how much has price transferred according to buy/sell orders for this particular quantity of time.

However price moves in waves and you will find waves within waves, what does this imply?

The way I look at chart is what has been happening, measuring by longer time frames.

If you're a brief word / swing trader, you notce about the daily price will most likely drop right? Then if you're a intraday, price will...

Hi Redlion,

A refreshingly intelligent post with clear common sense included.

Folks do get obsessed with TFs and a few don't accept that price is price regardless of what TF you're looking at....fruing.

I have known people feel that if market has not attained x over another x minutes or so it won't.

TFs don't dictate the markets. I suppose if we keep saying it some people will believe it.

I exchanged short-term for several years, only recently (in this past year) I realized how fine is long-term trading.

As I see it, the market can be both traded short and long term profitably, however the benefits are different

Short term benefits:
1) it's excellent for have some adrenaline-emotions from trading
2) it's good because profits could be made fast (ex. In a few hours or minutes)

short-term disvantages:
1) it's extremely fast and there is hardly any time to think and examine what is happening.
2) the only way to create good profits is to use some leverage, which also bring risks.


Long term benefits:
1) you have all the opportunity to test all the timeframes, put your research on the chart, unwind and consider a trade for even hours before take it.
2) once you're in a trade, you don't have to remain looking the chart all the time, only looking one or two times a day will be more than sufficient.
3) you've got soo much time to test what is happening and alter the initial plan if needed or produce a new one, without hurry and without loose yourself in the feelings.
4) having more time to examine the market on a deeply way, provide far better transactions and much higher winning% transactions, that mean less losses then more profits. Additionally, when a trade goes to how well you are of course free to add new small trades to the one, coming to the end with a profit.
This to state, that long-term trading is much more profitable than short-term trading.


It is a matter of course, in short-term you spend all day infront of computer, in a storm of feelings and stress and fear and adrenaline and you don't even know if the day/week/month is going to be finished in profit.
In long-term trading you require it much more easily, just dediing a small time to trading and the last result is profit.

We have to make a premise obviously, no matter if long-term or short-term, you have to understand what is going on in order to have the ability to make profits out of this market, otherwise short or longterm will make no difference at all.

It means potential is unclear, when fiscal men and women and world leaders say world market is shaky 4 years following the crisis began.

Short-term trading is best when potential is uncertain.

What's the time frame for a forex trader to hold their trade position?

I presume few trader will carry forward the trader position for over 4 months. Forex Currency trading is basically short term trading because in stocks, gold, real estate the investments continues for over a decade.

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When world leaders and financial men and women say world economy is unstable 4 years following the financial crisis began, it means future is uncertain.

Short-term trading is greatest when future is uncertain.

Future can not be sure thus long term trading is merely a myth.

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Short term benefits:
1) it is good to get some adrenaline-emotions from trading
two ) it is great because profits can be made quickly (ex. In a few hours or minutes)

Short term disvantages:
1) it is very fast and there is very little time to think and examine what's happening.
Two ) the only way to create good profits would be to use some leverage, that also bring risks.

I am uncertain how long you were trading short term or at all but the very first advantage mentioned is a drawback in all forms of trading.

Both disadvantages mentioned are now benefits of short-term trading and there is one more crucial point that's directly correlated with profitability and that's frequency. Would you would like to exchange a positive expectancy system on even the 1 minute TF or the 4 h?

Regards

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future may never be certain thus long term trading is merely a myth.

Long term investments benefits individuals that are on top. I mean big players. This how billionaires are made.

Long Term

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