Thinking about swing trading for office workers in a weekly flow. A schedule for continuing stocks without strain

Swing trading is said to be a method suited for office workers. Even if you cannot watch the market during the day, it works because you can make decisions at night based on daily charts and place your orders.

However, once they actually start, it is not uncommon for people to stop. For the first few weeks, they are enthusiastic, looking at charts every night and spending time on weekends searching for stocks. But when work gets busy, they can no longer keep up with checking them, and before they know it, they are neglecting their holdings. This is a common progression.

The reason it doesn’t last is often not a problem of motivation, but that it hasn’t been decided ‘when and what to do.’ If it isn’t decided, you have to think about what to start with every time, which creates a burden each time. Both time and energy are gradually whittled away.

Conversely, if the flow of the week is decided, you can act without hesitation. What to do on Sunday, what to do on weekday nights, what to do in the morning. By deciding the role of each, the work per session becomes lighter, and it becomes easier to continue even during busy periods. Setting it up in a way that is not unreasonable is a condition for continuing, even before performance. Especially for beginners, I feel that it is easier to last long if you start by creating a small routine rather than aiming for perfection from the beginning.

Also, dividing roles has the effect of maintaining the quality of judgment. This division is useful in the sense that you don’t bring heavy decisions into tired weekday nights. For example, if you do the work of searching for stocks and the work of managing your holdings at the same time, your head will get confused. Search on Sundays when you can search calmly, and focus on management on weekdays. Such a division reduces hesitation.

In balancing work and stocks, the most valuable things are time and concentration. Deciding in advance where to use those two limited resources leads to maintaining the quality of judgment as a result.

This time, I will organize a weekly flow for office workers to continue swing trading. We will look specifically at the schedule, including preparation on Sunday, confirmation on weekday nights, how to use short periods of time in the morning (including estimates of time to spend on each), and even how to think about busy weeks and Fridays.

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