Swing trading is named after the strategy of taking advantage of brief price swings in strongly trending stocks and riding the momentum in the trends' direction--buying if the trend is up or selling short if the trend is down.
Swing Trading For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides readers with expert advice and information on how to increase their profits and limit their risks by using this popular trading method. Uodates include:
- The role social media plays in moving asset prices
- New accounting rules and their effects on financial statements
- The 2018 tax law along with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for non-U.S. companies (and new standards that have been introduced)
- Expanded coveage on international markets which can now be easily traded from the U.S. or anywhere in the world
- New order types available to traders (e.g., Algorithimic trading)
- The effects ETFs and passive investment strategies are having on asset prices
- The global debt buildup and the global financial crisis of 2008
