Education
Swing Trading for Beginners
Learn swing trading from scratch. This beginner's guide covers what swing trading is, how it works, what tools you need, and how to place your first trade.
Swing Trading Blog
Educational deep dives on the scanning methods, setups, and strategies behind every scan we run.
Education
What Is Swing Trading?
Swing trading is a trading style where you hold stocks for days to weeks to capture price swings. Learn how it works, who it's for, and how it compares.
Education
How to Start Swing Trading
A step-by-step guide to starting swing trading. Covers account setup, picking a strategy, building a watchlist, your first trade, and risk management.
Strategies
Swing Trading Strategies
Explore 9 proven swing trading strategies: breakout, pullback, momentum, gap, moving average, reversal, and more. Learn when each works best.
Patterns
Swing Trading Patterns
Master the 8 most profitable swing trading chart patterns: cup-and-handle, VCP, bull flag, flat base, ascending triangle, double bottom, and more.
Indicators
Best Indicators for Swing Trading
The 7 most useful swing trading indicators: moving averages, RSI, volume, MACD, Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and ADR. Learn how to combine them.
Comparisons
A Trade Ideas Alternative Built for Swing Traders
Looking for a Trade Ideas alternative? SwingTradeScanner offers swing-trading-specific scans at a fraction of the cost. Compare features & pricing.
Comparisons
A MarketSmith Alternative With Automated CANSLIM Screening
Looking for a MarketSmith alternative? SwingTradeScanner automates CANSLIM screening, SEPA scans & relative strength — all in one dashboard.
Comparisons
A TC2000 Alternative for Momentum Swing Traders
Looking for a TC2000 alternative? SwingTradeScanner offers pre-built swing trading scans instead of DIY charting. Compare features & pricing.
Comparisons
A StocksToTrade Alternative for Serious Swing Traders
Looking for a StocksToTrade alternative? SwingTradeScanner targets quality momentum stocks with CANSLIM, SEPA & episodic pivot scans.
Chart Patterns
Cup and Handle Pattern: How to Spot and Trade It
Learn the cup and handle pattern: formation anatomy, volume confirmation, pivot point entry, and measured move targets. William O'Neil's classic setup.
Chart Patterns
Flat Base Breakout: The Quiet Pattern That Precedes Big Moves
Learn how to trade the flat base breakout pattern: 5+ weeks of tight consolidation under 15% depth signals institutional accumulation before big moves.
Chart Patterns
High Tight Flag: The Rarest and Most Powerful Breakout Pattern
The high tight flag requires a 100%+ move in 4-8 weeks then tight consolidation. Learn to identify, trade, and manage risk on this rare power pattern.
Strategy
Pocket Pivot Buy Points: Getting In Before the Breakout
Learn pocket pivot buy points: the volume-based early entry signal developed by Chris Kacher and Gil Morales. Get positioned before traditional breakouts.
Market Timing
Follow-Through Day: How to Confirm a New Market Uptrend
Learn the follow-through day: William O'Neil's market timing signal. Day 4+, 1.7%+ gain on higher volume confirms a new uptrend after a correction.
Chart Patterns
IPO Base Breakout: How to Trade Newly Public Stocks
Learn IPO base breakouts: why newly public stocks form unique bases, the structure to look for, timing entries, and managing risk in the first-year window.
Tools & Reviews
The 7 Best Stock Scanners for Swing Trading in 2026
Compare the 7 best stock scanners for swing trading in 2026. Honest reviews of Finviz, Trade Ideas, TrendSpider, TC2000, and more.
Tools & Reviews
Best Momentum Stock Scanners of 2026: A Trader's Comparison
Compare the best momentum stock scanners of 2026. See which tools find relative strength, volume surges, and trend acceleration best.
Strategy
CANSLIM vs SEPA: Which Stock Selection Method Is Better?
CANSLIM vs SEPA compared side by side. Learn where O'Neil's and Minervini's methods overlap, where they differ, and how to use both.
Strategy
Breakout Trading vs Pullback Trading: Which Style Fits You?
Breakout trading vs pullback trading compared. Learn the pros, cons, and personality fit of each entry style for swing traders.
Technical Analysis
Minervini Stage Analysis: Identify Where a Stock Is in Its Cycle
Mark Minervini's 4-stage model: accumulation, advancing, distribution, declining. The MA criteria for each stage and why Stage 2 is the only stage to buy.
Strategy
How to Build a Swing Trading Watchlist That Works
The complete watchlist workflow: sourcing candidates, organizing by setup type, managing size, daily review process, and when to add or remove stocks.
Trading Setups
Power Earnings Gap Setup: How to Trade Post-Earnings Momentum
What qualifies as a power earnings gap, entry timing on the first pullback, risk management, and how this overlaps with episodic pivots.
Comparison
Best Free Stock Scanners in 2026
Seven free scanning tools compared side by side — features, limitations, and which fits your trading style.
Guide
Stock Scanner vs Stock Screener
The difference between static screening and real-time scanning, and which one swing traders actually need.
Setups
Minervini VCP Screener
How to scan for volatility contraction patterns, the SEPA trend template, and automated VCP grading.
Screening
CANSLIM Stock Screener
How to screen for O'Neil's seven growth criteria online, and what CANSLIM screening misses.
Scanning
Momentum Stock Scanner
Key metrics, setup types, and common mistakes when scanning for momentum breakouts.
Guide
What Is a Stock Screener
What screeners filter, how to set criteria, and why swing traders use them to find setups.
Strategy
Moving Average Crossover Strategy
Where crossovers work, where they fail, and how experienced traders use moving averages differently.
Guide
How to Read a Stock Chart
Candlesticks, volume, support and resistance, moving averages, and breakout setups explained.
Comparison
Swing Trading vs Day Trading
Time commitment, capital, risk, and returns — a side-by-side comparison to help you choose.
Guide
Best Stocks for Swing Trading
The five traits that make a stock swing-tradeable, the red flags that disqualify one, and how to find them.
Scanning
How to Find Breakout Stocks
Chart patterns, volume signals, and scanner filters that surface breakout candidates before they move.
Strategy
Swing Trading Risk Management
Position sizing, stops and portfolio heat: the rules that keep you in the game.
Strategy
Gap and Go Trading Strategy
How to separate tradeable gaps from traps, and where to set stops.
Comparison
A Finviz Alternative Built for Momentum Swing Traders
Comparing Finviz and SwingTradeScanner for swing trading: a broad free screener versus ready-made momentum scans with catalysts and SEC filings.
Setups
The Parabolic Short Setup: Trading the End of a Vertical Move
How the parabolic short setup works: what makes a move parabolic, the entry triggers traders use, where stops go, and why the risks are unusual.
Research
Episodic Pivot Examples: Real Wins, and Real Failures
Real episodic pivots flagged by the scanner: the biggest winners of the past year and recent gaps that failed, with the numbers for every pick.
Guide
How to Choose the Best Swing Trading Scanner for Your Style
A practical buyer’s guide to swing trading scanners: what to look for, which kind suits which trader, and how Finviz, TradingView, TrendSpider and others differ.
Setups
The 2LYNCH Checklist: How to Grade a Breakout Before You Buy It
The 2LYNCH breakout checklist explained letter by letter: what each check means, why it matters, and how to use the score to filter setups.
Catalysts
Stock Dilution Explained: Shelf Offerings, 424B Filings and ATMs
How companies sell new shares: shelf registrations (S-3), 424B pricing, at-the-market programs and private placements, and how to spot dilution early.
Comparison
A TrendSpider Alternative for Momentum Swing Traders
Comparing TrendSpider and SwingTradeScanner for swing trading: automated charting and backtesting versus ready-made momentum scans with catalysts.
Comparison
A Deepvue Alternative for Momentum Swing Traders
Comparing Deepvue and SwingTradeScanner: a configurable growth-stock screener versus ready-made momentum scans with catalysts and SEC filings.
Research
The Biggest Breakout Setups of the Past Year
The five biggest Momentum Breakout setups of the past year, from a backtest of every scanner pick from Aug 28, 2025 to Aug 27, 2026, with the honest numbers for all four scans.
Market Analysis
Year-End Swing Trading: What Changes in Thin Markets
How the holiday season changes swing trading: thin volume, early closes, tax-loss selling and how to size positions from Thanksgiving to the first week of January.
Market Analysis
Sector Rotation: How to Read Where the Money Is Going in Q4
How sector rotation works, why the fourth quarter has its own flows, and how to use sector relative strength to find leaders in leading groups.
Technical Analysis
How Institutional Buying Shows Up in Volume
How to spot institutional accumulation in daily volume: up-volume versus down-volume, accumulation and distribution days, pocket pivots and volume dry-up.
Catalysts
SEC Filings That Move Stocks: 8-K, 10-Q and What to Look For
Which SEC filings move stock prices, what 8-K items, 10-Qs, S-3s and Form 4s actually mean, and how to tell a real catalyst from dilution.
Technical Analysis
Relative Strength Ranking: Why It Matters More Than the Chart
What a relative strength (RS) ranking measures, how a 1–99 RS rank is built, and how swing traders use it to find the leaders before the breakout.
Scanning
Premarket Gap Scanner: Finding Episodic Pivots Before the Open
The gap, volume and flat-base rules that separate a real re-rating from premarket noise, and a routine for the hour before the bell.
Technical Analysis
Volatility Contraction Patterns: How Tighter Bases Lead to Bigger Breakouts
How to count contractions, why volume dry-up matters, and how to find VCP setups with a scanner.
Market Analysis
How to Read Market Breadth for Swing Trading
The five breadth readings that matter, how to combine them into a risk-on or risk-off call, and how to match your exposure to the market before you take a trade.
Trading Setups
What Is an Episodic Pivot? The Catalyst-Driven Setup Explained
Learn how episodic pivots work, why the catalyst behind a gap matters more than the gap itself, and how to identify the highest-probability setups from earnings, FDA approvals, and contract wins.
Scanning
How to Scan for Breakout Stocks: Criteria That Actually Work
What separates a real breakout from a fakeout? Explore the key criteria — tight bases, volume expansion, and trend alignment — that filter noise and surface actionable setups.
Technical Analysis
Minervini SEPA Trend Template Explained: All 8 Criteria
A complete walkthrough of Mark Minervini's Specific Entry Point Analysis trend template, including the eight conditions every stock must pass and how to automate them.
Fundamental Analysis
CANSLIM Screening Criteria: A Complete Breakdown
William O'Neil's CANSLIM method distilled into actionable screening criteria. Learn what each letter stands for, the quantitative thresholds that matter, and how to automate the screen.