WHAT TYPE OF TRADER ARE YOU?

CHAPTER 9
WHAT TYPE OF TRADER ARE YOU?
Each individual who is the stock market and is intending to make money has to identify himself from the various trader types he falls into and has to utilize that strategy.
The following are the types of traders,
POSITION TRADERS
Most investors fall in this category, as they buy stocks and hold them for months and years expecting to get more profits out of it. Institutional investors, mutual funds and investment banks are interested in such stocks which yield profits in long term. They concentrate more on the financial strength of the company and not in technicalities.

SWING TRADERS.
These are the traders who look for the fast movement in the market. Fast buying and selling , and in this short term of holding shares these types of traders make lots of wins and losses .They have the fast profit making mentality , they have high risk to reward ratio.

DAY TRADERS.
The stock market moves up and down every day and these types of traders make the most and capture the big portion of the move. He does not believe in keeping the stocks for more period of time like position and swing traders. He uses the stock market as source of income and not investment.