nothing.

The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility

Typically, swing trading is when a person buys a stock with the intent of holding for more than 1 day. The first thing you have to do when deciding what to buy for a swing trade is to define your time frame. You have to figure out how long you are willing to tie your money up in this stock BEFORE you buy. This keeps you from holding too long for no good reason, after it doesn't do what you expect it to. Remember, you expect stock XYZ to go up or down in X time frame. If it doesn't, your hypothesis has been wrong and you have entered into the luck game. This is when you're holding a stock and hoping eventually you will be right. More often then not, this is the best way to tie up or even lose your money in a dead stock. Even though you may not be losing a lot of money on it, your losing money on other stocks you could have been buying while your capital rots in a stock that is doing nothing.

The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility

ure out how long you are willing to tie your money up in this stock BEFORE you buy. This keeps you from holding too long for no good reason, after it doesn't do what you expect it to. Remember, you expect stock XYZ to go up or down in X time frame. If it doesn't, your hypothesis has been wrong and you have entered into the luck game. This is when you're holding a stock and hoping eventually you will be right. More often then not, this is the best way to tie up or even lose your money in a dead stock. Even though you may not be losing a lot of money on it, your losing money on other stocks you could have been buying while your capital rots in a stock that is doing nothing.

The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility

or down in X time frame. If it doesn't, your hypothesis has been wrong and you have entered into the luck game. This is when you're holding a stock and hoping eventually you will be right. More often then not, this is the best way to tie up or even lose your money in a dead stock. Even though you may not be losing a lot of money on it, your losing money on other stocks you could have been buying while your capital rots in a stock that is doing nothing.

The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility

best way to tie up or even lose your money in a dead stock. Even though you may not be losing a lot of money on it, your losing money on other stocks you could have been buying while your capital rots in a stock that is doing nothing.

The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility

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The second thing that you need to do is to assess your risk tolerance. Simply put, this is just defining your own comfort level with the potential of losing money. Look at the beta of a stock (the volatility of a stock in comparison to the market). If you have large risk tolerance, higher beta is the way to go, the opposite also holds true for low risk tolerance. This can be found easily by looking at the stock's history on the charts, some scanners actually offer a beta filter.

High risk takers often search for low float emerging type of stocks while the lower end risk takers stick with well known dividend paying stocks that are less likely to go up 50% or get cut in half in a day.