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Well its either a do or do not. Either you have a profitable strategy or you don't. If we're just speaking of the average trader, yes I agree swing trading will probably make more or lose less than trying to day trade, as they are likely just to get chopped up. But if you know what you're...

I honestly don't have the mental fortitude, capital or the patience to trade long term trends, but at least I know and understand that. So, not really qualified to answer your question. For trends I'd argue and I am a believer that the patterns are the same from the smallest charts up to the...

Yes, a lot of them go for an average weighted price as due to size and other factors they can't just all buy in at once for more than one and for obvious reasons. I am speaking more as an individual trader, one of the advantages you have is more precise entry as no one is really tracking or...

I mean it is and it isn't. It's like a lot of things depends on the person. Really not trying to beat a dead horse, but again if you have deep understanding of the market and intra-day trading there's almost always at the very least 1-3 strong high quality entries per day for a long and/or...

Exactly, If you can be consistently profitable via intra-day without holding overnight. I don't see a need to expose yourself to overnight risk, although as said don't have any issues with a runner if you've locked in profits, particularly if speaking of something more stable like ES futures.

These are all valid points and I don't believe it has to be one or the other. It is nice to be able to incorporate both if you can have no issues with that. Let's say just for an example (not an all inclusive one) but you've completed a nice intra-day trade and took some profits, but...

Pardon me for not answering the question and instead asking one of my own, but what would be the advantage to this? or it's just something you'd like to know / have? Generally speaking I've found should not base a trade on time but rather if you do find a good setup honor your stop and rules...

Fee's can def dip into your profit factor, particularly depend on broker and how well you execute your trades (getting in and out with multiple trades when it likely could have /should have been one fluid trade). But again comes down to your strategy and set ups again. If they are clean...

Being able to identify a near exact and consistent entry point on a setup that allows for minimal risk, while still being able to capture a large part of the intra-day movement. I guess you could turn that into a swing strategy as well. I just don't like holding positions overnight, so...

That's actually brilliant, if you only use leverage on the winning trades and on losing trades don't use leverage than you'll need a lot lower win rate.

The bigger edge you have in the markets, I'd argue the more day trading > swing trading. If little to no edge than I imagine swing trading is likely to produce better results than day trading. Obviously not a hard rule, but that's been my general experience.

It's an important one and not sure you can make a long term career without it, but it's definitely not the only edge.

There are some people with 10+ years of proven back tested set ups that give them profit factor, win percentage as well as how many max losers in a row has occurred over that time period. So if you have that, than 100-300% per year would actually be extremely plausible. I am sure it would...

Well great trading is and should be boring all about repeating your setup "X" amount of times to achieve your profit factor, but of course getting there is the hard part. You need reasonable capital, stress free environment, proper indicators (and knowing how to use them), or understanding of...

If you're trading a real account, that's well funded and you're not relying on daily / monthly gains that you MUST HAVE to pay bills, than if you traded well on paper it can surely transfer to live trading. If your situation is your constantly stressed, underfunded and must make money or...

If you have a profitable setup, its just a matter of repeating it over and over, so even if you think it's 50/50 at a certain point its best to let it play out and honor your stop as otherwise you're starting to dip into the guessing game which could massively effect the profit factor of your...