Long-term
Position & investing · months to years.
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Multi-day moves · days to weeks.
Jump in →Scalp / short-term
Intraday · seconds to hours.
Jump in →These lanes overlap on purpose. Many methods work on any timeframe — Wyckoff, candlesticks, and moving averages all scale up and down — and plenty of traders moved between styles over their careers. Treat the sorting as a starting point, not a wall.
Position & Investing
You buy quality and give it room. Decisions lean on value, the business, and the primary trend; you trade rarely and hold through noise. Patience and position sizing matter more than timing.
- TRADERS Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, Philip Fisher, Howard Marks, Ray Dalio, Jim Rogers, George Soros
- METHODS Dow Theory Confirmation, Weinstein Stage-2 Breakout
- CONCEPTS Fundamental Analysis, Trends & Market Structure, Moving Averages, Risk & Position Sizing
Swing Trading
You ride a single move — a breakout, a trend leg, a base that breaks — and exit when it stalls. This is the home of the classic technical playbooks: read the structure, buy strength or the pullback, define risk, and let the move work.
- TRADERS Jesse Livermore, Nicolas Darvas, William O'Neil, Stan Weinstein, Richard Donchian, The Turtles, Ed Seykota, Bruce Kovner, Richard Wyckoff, Alexander Elder, Charles Dow
- METHODS Pivotal-Point Breakout, Darvas Box, Donchian Channel, Cup-with-Handle, Triple Screen, Holy-Grail Pullback, Wyckoff Spring
- CONCEPTS Chart Patterns, Support & Resistance, Moving Averages, Oscillators, Momentum Trading, Volume, VWAP
Short-Term & Scalping
You work inside the day — fast, focused, flat by the close. Edges come from order flow, the opening range, momentum bursts, and reading where value sits right now. It demands the tightest risk and the steadiest psychology on the site.
- TRADERS Mike Bellafiore (SMB), Peter Steidlmayer, Linda Raschke, Marty Schwartz
- METHODS Value-Area Fade, Turtle Soup (failed breakout), Candlestick Reversal, Holy-Grail Pullback
- CONCEPTS Order Flow & Tape Reading, VWAP & Anchored VWAP, Momentum Trading, Volume, Support & Resistance
The shared foundation
Two things sit beneath every style. Fundamentals — what a company earns, owns, and owes — matter most to the long-term holder, but an earnings beat or a fresh catalyst is exactly what fuels a swing breakout or a scalp. And risk & psychology are universal: no style survives without small losses and a steady head.
- FUNDAMENTALS Fundamental Analysis Basics · Graham, Buffett, Fisher
- RISK & MIND Risk & Position Sizing · Mark Douglas, Brett Steenbarger, Van Tharp
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