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RENATA PALIOKIENE #:
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.
 
Scalping. Get in get out. No holding overnight. No multi-session. Keep it simple. Sleep at night. 
 
Osmar Sandoval Espinosa #:

I'll prefer a combination multi time frame EAs.

H4 For tendency and M15 for entries.

For what I have seen they give more stability.

The concept of combining an H4 timeframe for structural tendency and an M15 timeframe for entries might sound incredibly logical to a manual trader, but from a quantitative engineering perspective, it is a structural nightmare that introduces fatal execution lag, by forcing your algorithm to wait for an arbitrary four-hour candle to officially close before validating an entry on the fifteen-minute chart, you are intentionally blinding your execution engine to the raw, continuous tick data that actually drives institutional momentum. True algorithmic stability does not come from mixing arbitrary time blocks, it comes from building a timeless, volatility-weighted execution layer that reacts to structural liquidity fractures the exact millisecond they happen, completely bypassing the repainting issues of multi-timeframe retail logic
 
RENATA PALIOKIENE #:
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.
You have just inspired me to build a swing trading bot.  
 

Multi-timeframe breakout/breakdown with trailing SL scalping.


I can't find the patience to swing 

 
Lee See Hao #:

Multi-timeframe breakout/breakdown with trailing SL scalping.

I can't find the patience to swing 

With all due respect, impatience, boredom, nor FOMO are valid reasons for jumping from swing trading to scalping.

As a side note, an EA can avoid all of those emotions if you can code your strategy.

 

Scalping

 
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?
Why not BOTH

Scalping and swing trading both have their place in this business. It all depends on the capital size, risk tolerance, and the objective of the system.

Scalping is excellent for small capital growth. Fast entries, high frequency trading, aggressive compounding. But at the same time it's extremely sensitive to spread, slippage, execution quality, broker conditions, and market volatility. One bad environment and the whole system performance changes quickly

Swing trading on the other hand is where serious capital usually belongs 💰🔥

Fewer trades.
Lower stress.
Higher quality setups.
Cleaner entries.
Less market noise.

Instead of chasing every little movement, swing systems focus on precision and structure. That's why most professional money management systems prefer slower but more stable strategies over hyperactive scalpers.

Personally I'd rather see:
• Controlled drawdown
• Strong risk management
• Adaptive strategy logic
• Portfolio compatibility
• Long-term consistency

…instead of some "Get Rich or Die Trying" robot that looks amazing for 3 months then disappears into the graveyard of blown accounts 🤣💀

The smartest approach in my opinion is combining both:
• Scalpers for aggressive growth
• Swing systems for stability and capital preservation
• Different systems covering different market conditions

In other words:
• SMALL capital
Go with SCALPING for faster growth and aggressive compounding.

• SERIOUS capital
Switch to SWING TRADING. Fewer trades, cleaner setups, lower risk, and more stable long-term performance

That's usually the difference between trying to grow an account… and trying to protect and scale serious money

Because at the end of the day…
The real goal isn’t just making profit.

The real goal is building a system structure that can survive long term while still printing consistent returns.
 
Pontsho Toko Maringa #:

Scalping

At this point in time, 50% of me agrees with you. I developed my first worthwhile scalping strategy (EA) today. Now I'm sitting on the middle of the swing/scalp fence.
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