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If I had to choose between swing trading, day trading, or scalping, I would definitely go with swing trading.
The main reason is that swing trading allows for more thoughtful and less stressful decision-making. Instead of watching charts every minute like a scalper or spending the entire day trading, swing trading focuses on bigger market moves over several days. This usually means cleaner setups and less market noise, which makes strategies more reliable.
Another big advantage is the risk-to-reward potential. Swing trades often aim for larger price movements, so you don’t need many trades to see good results. It’s more about quality than quantity.
From an automation perspective, swing trading also makes the most sense for an EA. Scalping systems depend heavily on execution speed, spreads, and broker conditions, which can make them unstable in real trading. A swing EA, on the other hand, can work more consistently because it relies on market structure and higher timeframes rather than tiny price movements.

Yeah, I occasionally experiment with all frequencies of trading, but I find it tough to beat MFT swing trading. For example, I recently tinkered with an S27 (27 second) custom timeframe on the Fiber (EURUSD). There were some rather nice price moves to capture but they were infrequent, and the times at which they appeared were random. Interestingly, the corresponding tick volumes of those price moves were low which generally equates to higher spreads and higher slippage. As usually is the case with lower timeframes, the narrow price whipsaw periods outnumbered, and thereby negated, the nice price moves.

Spread is so determinative in FX scalping, I really wouldn't consider scalping anything other than the Fiber in the FX markets─it generally has the lowest spread. Scalping in equity markets, or equity-derived markets, such as futures or CFD's probably offers more "scalpable" instruments than the FX markets do. I may look into that at some point.

Developing a profitable MFT swing trading EA was difficult enough. Developing a profitable scalping EA adds an additional layer of difficulty to that process.

 
Zenzo Phathisani Mtungwa:
What is your Preffered Syle of trading?  Swing Day Or Scalping?

What EA would you prefer for developers to make you assuming All of the work and are profitable?
A combination of both will be good. But if you're starting with small capital like $500 or $1000 then scalping strategy will be better. Cuz in swing trading you need good capital that can hold wild SL while usually in scalping strategy you'll go with tight SL.
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