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If you're a developing trader, should you focus on day trading or swing trading?

It's the question everyone asks early on... and my thinking on it has shifted over the years.

In this one, I go through the definitions, the usual pros and cons, and then the bit most people skip: the psychological cost. Fast decisions, fast damage. Why beginners fall apart day trading and what that actually does to your account.

I get into the asymmetry problem too. Why it's so hard to find a true asymmetric trade intraday in normal conditions, and how holding for a few days changes the maths.

Then my honest take on what I'd do if I was starting again now. It's not clear-cut. But on balance I land somewhere.