Swing trading is a strategy that combines fundamental and technical research to catch big price moves while minimising downtime. The advantages of this style of trading include more effective capital allocation and greater profits, while the disadvantages include higher commissions and more volatility.
For the ordinary retail trader, swing trading may be challenging. Professional traders have more expertise, leverage, information, and cheaper commissions; nevertheless, the instruments they can trade, the risk they can take on, and the amount of cash they have limit them. Large institutions trade at volumes that make it difficult to trade equities fast.