A scalp trade can last for as long as a few minutes and a swing trade can be as quick as 1 or 2 days. The biggest difference is that you don’t hold scalp trades overnight (not even for a few hours) while swing positions are held overnight.
How long can a scalp trade last? How quick can a swing trade be?
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In my mind, scalping is differentiated from the others in what the term implies.
Scalping is just "taking a little off the top". Which is what Native Americans actually did. They took a little off the top of their victims. So scalping is just grabbing a few ticks.
The rest of the terms are time-based. Day for intraday, swing/position for multidays/weeks/months.
With those definitions in mind, there cannot be a swing-scalp in that sense, although one could try to scalp a few ticks over many days, by having a 3 tick target with a 1000 tick stop.