Swing trading alert terms
Plain definitions for the language used across this guide. Any term with a test sitting behind it links on to the page that takes it further.
Swing trading alert
A published, timed instruction to consider a multi-day trade - ticker, direction, entry, target and stop - meant to be opened and then held for days to weeks rather than closed inside the session.
Holding period
The span a position is carried before it is closed; the Swing Trade model holds for roughly 7 to 28 days, the patient middle of the clock.
Track record
The full history of past calls, the winners and the losers kept together, which only tells you anything once the losing calls are left in. See: a re-openable record.
Independent reference
A named outside party that reviews the underlying statements behind a record and has no commercial stake in the verdict. See: how to verify a record.
On-chain timestamp
A hash of an alert written to a public ledger at publication, proving the call existed in exactly that form at that moment and was not altered afterward. See: locked before it played out.
Conviction grade
An A-to-D label marking how strong a call is against its own model's measured return distribution; there is no E grade. See: grades that are measured.
Drawdown
The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a stretch - a more honest read on swing risk than the headline return on its own.
Mean reversion
Trading a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level and tends to drift back toward it; the swing model applies that idea over a week-to-a-month horizon.
Win rate
The share of calls that closed in profit - trustworthy only when the total signal count is shown right beside it. See: why a win rate needs a denominator.