The Part-Time Swing Trader

A Simple Step-by-Step Plan to Swing Trade Stocks Around a Full-Time Job

You have a job to do tomorrow. Tonight, a stock chart still leaves you with questions: whether to buy, how much to commit, and what happens while you are busy.

The Part-Time Swing Trader takes you through those decisions in plain language. Begin with the evening you have and the money you can afford to risk. Then work through a stock candidate, its stop, the number of shares, the order instructions and the eventual sale.

Along the way, you will learn to:

• Use completed daily prices to decide when to look for a trade.
• Narrow a list of stocks with defined conditions and event checks.
• Calculate a share quantity from the stop, maximum purchase price and account limits.
• Understand partial fills, protective orders and the checks required before leaving a trade unattended.
• Separate a losing trade from a sizing mistake or an order failure.
• Record executions and costs, review the account and describe a proposed rule change before trying it.

Moving averages, Bollinger Bands, ATR, candles and MACD begin with the problem each helps describe. Worked fictional examples show both a recovery and a stopped trade, with the arithmetic carried through to the record.

The final chapter brings the pieces together in a complete practice evening. Writable plan pages, an evening checklist and a free companion spreadsheet give you somewhere to put your own decisions.

For beginners who want to learn how stock trades are planned around a full-time job. The examples teach a process; they are not a record of profitable strategy performance.