Position Trading
Holding for weeks to months to ride a larger trend — the longest-term active style short of buy-and-hold investing.
Position traders follow the primary trend, holding through minor pullbacks to capture a major move that can last months. They lean on weekly charts, moving averages and relative strength, and trade far less frequently than swing or day traders — fewer, bigger decisions.
The trade-off is wider stops and more patience: a position trader tolerates normal volatility to stay in a winner, but still defines an exit where the trend is broken. It overlaps with trend-following and growth approaches like CAN SLIM.
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StockSetups' trend-template score, 1–99 RS Rating and long-term moving-average distances help position traders identify stocks in durable uptrends, while the stop on each setup defines where the longer-term thesis fails.
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