What are Intraday, Swing and Positional Trading ?

• Intraday Trading: When you buy and sell stocks around the same day.
• Swing Trading: When you buy stocks but hold it for around 7-15 days.
• Positional Trading: This is long term investing, holding stocks for months or even years.

Example: Intraday is like 200m sprint, swing trading is like 400m run while positional trading is like marathon.

Aspect	Intraday Trading	Swing Trading	Positional Trading
Definition	Buying and Selling around the same day.	Holding Stocks for around 7-15 days.	Holding stocks for months are years.
Timeframe	Hours, Minutes or even seconds of the same day.	Few days or 1-2 weeks.	Some months to years as well.
Objective	Earning daily from small daily price movements.	Reducing the risk of daily market fluctuation and capturing real market movement	Investing on longterm gain on trusting the companies business and vision.
Risk Level	High as intraday price movement depends on lots of factors.	Moderate as in removes intraday price movements noises.	Less as long term price movement depends on sector and business performance over the year.
Technical Analysis	Relies highly on technical analysis specially daily charts.	Relies on weekly technical analysis and indicators.	Relies mostly on fundamental analysis.
Capital Requirement	Low as it captures daily price movements.	Moderate as it is trying to capture price movements for more than a week.	Higher as in this funds will be hold for long period of time.
Best For	Good knowledge in technical analysis and able to take high risks.	Beginners in stock market with some knowledge in technical analysis.	Good Fundamental analysis skills and have patience to put large funds over long period of time.

Trading vs. Investing

Trading: Buying and Selling stocks in short span of time it includes both intraday trading and swing trading which is explained above.

Investing: Holding stocks for extended period of time which includes positional trading also explained above