How to Swing Trade for Big Profits in 2025
In the last blog post we talked about how the election could impact markets over the next four years. Today lets talk about how to take full advantage of the tremendous opportunity we have in 2025. Lower taxes, less regulation and a pro growth agenda tend to be very good for stocks and trading.
Before getting started, its good to survey the market and the best trading strategies to see what is working currently, why, and how this could change in early 2025.
So now is a good time to look at the first couple months after the election and see which strategies are working best after a December pullback.
Trade, Tariffs and Their Impact on Swing Trading
So far you would have to say that stocks less affected by trade policies and rising interest rates are the better place to be all else being equal.
Historically, the market starts to rally a week or two before a major election. And this, along with bullish technical factors, made us more bullish around the beginning of November.
Regardless of the election outcome, we found 2 AI stocks that were likely to do well and were less affected by the election and trade policy. Both stocks had a recent bullish catalyst as well and were coming out of good consolidations within strong, long-term uptrends. The stocks were PLTR and ALAB.
These stocks fit the mold of an ideal swing trading opportunity. A great first step to prepare for 2025 is to go over this blog post which covers how to find great swing trading opportunities in detail.
These stocks had nearly all the qualities mentioned in that blog post. Strong growth in sales and earnings, a long-term uptrend, a bullish consolidation pattern, a fresh catalyst, and the stock confirmed the near-term direction to the upside as described in the earnings eruptions strategy and the daily alert service that evening when they were featured to customers.
Stocks and Proven Strategies Getting Us Excited Heading Into 2025
Both stocks have soared over 50% since reaching the technical entry point mentioned in the alert service. ALAB was a recent IPO but one that was turning profitable with exceptional growth in a red hot industry. Like RDDT, another stock featured to customers recently, this recent IPO had very good recent price action for such a young stock.
Other stocks that have done exceptionally well also had the ideal characteristics of a great swing trading opportunity.
We featured NFLX earlier which has also done well. Another stock near all-time highs with strong growth while being less affected by uncertainty over trade policy.
Other stocks affected by higher interest rates and trade policies have been pulling back and consolidating. Even NVDA is consolidating for now ahead of trade negotiations heating up. These other areas of the market could be ready to take off once the new trade policies and tariffs start becoming clear.
Get Ready for January
January has always been one of the best months in our own trading and for our strategies. Its also one of the better months for the market historically.
So pay attention in January. Its a great month to trade. Earnings season also starts in mid-January with some pre-announcements sure to come out earlier in the month. These catalysts are a key ingredient in a great swing trading opportunity as described in the blog post mentioned above.
Last year in January we featured SMCI right after a pre-announcement for customers coming out of an ascending base pattern. Again, the stock was found using the principles in the guide we have on finding the best swing trading opportunities in the market. The stock tripled within several weeks after reaching the entry trigger the next day.
We would not be surprised to see this kind of upside pre-announcement on a great growth stock again in January of 2025. So watch the list of morning gaps for stocks over $25 that are gapping 8% or more and see if there is big news. We will deliver a lot of the best ones in the daily alert service.
How to Exit Great Swing Trades in 2025
In a prior blog post, we talked about how you can exit the very best swing trading opportunities. The ones with the strong growth that get off to a great start. These you can handle a bit differently with at least a portion of your position.
The best earnings breakouts and consolidation patterns on great growth stocks are often in trending mode for weeks or even months after a big earnings breakout. A good, simple exit strategy is covered in this blog post.
Its basically waiting for a test of the 9 or 20 EMA and selling into the next wave higher. Dragging a stop a little below the prior days low after the test of the moving average. If the stock closes below the moving average chosen, we raise our stop to about 1.5% below that days low. The initial stop-loss when first entering the trade is generally a very tight stop-loss for us.
Again, we look for a great start to a trade as a key indicator to know when to use this approach to exiting the trade. Most average or “good” trades we exit much sooner. This approach works well on quality growth stocks in the current market when a few stocks are soaring while most stocks are, well… meh.
Right now its a feast or famine type of trading market.
IPO Market is About to Re-open?
We could also see a lot of good IPOs in 2025. We could see Stripe and SpaceX come public in 2025. These stocks and others could form the most bullish consolidations early on. We like to trade these and exit the trade ahead of the lockup expiration when they tend to start trending lower.
Fresh IPOs can make great moves in those first few months. We then avoid them generally after that until they are trading around 4 years or more with inflation and bond yields this high. The ZIRP era is in the rearview mirror for now anyways.
So watch the IPO calendar closely in 2025 and get ready. This could be a great source of profitability as well. This blog post covers how we trade IPOs.
Save Yourself Time and Become More Efficient
Of course swing trading takes some time when you do it all yourself. Just researching and testing promising strategies can take many months or years. But that is a necessary first step.
If you are trying to grow a small account rapidly, the rapid account growth course teaches you multiple strategies to have a terrific 2025. These are strategies we use in our own account.
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Stocks and swing trades selected by someone with over 15 years experience swing trading.
The Best Way to Prepare to Have Your Best Year Ever Trading
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I eventually stumbled across key tips that transformed my health and fitness levels. But this was after going to the gym for many years. Suddenly I am much stronger, leaner and in much better shape and feel better overall.
If I would have gone to the right expert from the start, I would have saved years of poor results and gotten to better health sooner. Many of the tips that made all the difference are rarely mentioned online. In fact, much of the advice online did not help and actually hurt my results in many cases.
The same thing can definitely occur when swing trading. The best and fastest way to have a great 2025 is to get a great coach who has been doing it for decades. A coach that is reasonably priced and can quickly get you on the right track.
Right now, you do not want to take years to clean up mistakes and learn the best strategies for you and your schedule. So get a great coach and quickly learn the best swing trading strategies to get a faster start. Its well worth it when exercising and definitely when it comes to trading.
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