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title: "EasySwing Swing Trading Strategies"
description: "7 named swing trading strategies with backtested performance."
url: https://easyswing.trading/strategies
updated: 2026-05-05
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# EasySwing Swing Trading Strategies

EasySwing detects 7 named swing trading strategies, each gated by live market regime.

## Strategies

### VCP Breakout
**Direction:** Long | **Family:** Momentum | **Author:** Mark Minervini

Institutional accumulation creates a volatility contraction pattern that resolves with a breakout on volume.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 72%
- Ranging win rate: 45%
- Avg R-multiple: 1.8R
- Avg hold: 11 days
- Sample size: 48 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Price above 50/150/200 SMA stack
2. 3+ contracting pullbacks visible
3. Volume dried up in base
4. Breakout on 40%+ above avg volume

**Valid regimes:** Trending Up

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### Trend Pullback
**Direction:** Long | **Family:** Pullback | **Author:** Kunal Desai

Strong trending stocks that pull back to the EMA zone offer high-probability entries with defined risk.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 68%
- Ranging win rate: 52%
- Avg R-multiple: 1.4R
- Avg hold: 7 days
- Sample size: 62 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. EMA9 > EMA20 > SMA50 stack
2. Price in EMA9/EMA20 zone
3. RSI(14) between 40-55
4. Volume declining during pullback
5. Bounce candle confirmation

**Valid regimes:** Trending Up, Ranging

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### RSI Reversion
**Direction:** Long | **Family:** Mean-reversion | **Author:** Larry Connors / Quantified Strategies

Short-term oversold conditions in long-term uptrends resolve with a mean reversion bounce.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 78%
- Ranging win rate: 65%
- Avg R-multiple: 0.9R
- Avg hold: 4 days
- Sample size: 85 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Price above SMA200
2. RSI(5) below 30
3. 3 consecutive RSI declining days
4. Volume not spiking (< 150% avg)

**Valid regimes:** Trending Up, Ranging, Transitioning

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### Bear Flag
**Direction:** Short | **Family:** Pullback | **Author:** Thomas Bulkowski / classical pattern

Stocks in confirmed downtrends that consolidate in a tight upward channel (the "flag") offer high-probability short entries when the breakdown resumes.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 67%
- Ranging win rate: 41%
- Avg R-multiple: 1.3R
- Avg hold: 8 days
- Sample size: 36 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Inverted EMA stack: EMA9 < EMA20 < SMA50
2. Price bounced into EMA9/EMA20 resistance zone
3. Price did NOT close above EMA20
4. RSI(14) between 45-60 (weak bounce)
5. Volume declining during bounce
6. Breakdown candle confirmation

**Valid regimes:** Trending Down, High Volatility

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### RSI Overbought
**Direction:** Short | **Family:** Mean-reversion | **Author:** Larry Connors / Quantified Strategies

Short-term overbought conditions in long-term downtrends or overextended moves resolve with a mean reversion decline.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 68%
- Ranging win rate: 58%
- Avg R-multiple: 0.85R
- Avg hold: 4 days
- Sample size: 72 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Price below SMA200 (or > 10% above SMA50)
2. RSI(5) above 70
3. 3 consecutive RSI rising days
4. Volume not spiking (< 150% avg)

**Valid regimes:** Trending Down, Ranging, Transitioning

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### Swing Condor
**Direction:** Long | **Family:** Range-bound | **Author:** EasySwing

Range-bound stocks with compressed ATR and defined S/R boundaries profit from oscillation within a channel — profit zone is between both wings, loss is capped on both sides.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 38%
- Ranging win rate: 71%
- Avg R-multiple: 1.1R
- Avg hold: 5 days
- Sample size: 41 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Clear horizontal S/R channel visible on daily
2. ATR14 < 20-day avg ATR (compression)
3. Price within 5% of channel midpoint
4. RSI(14) between 40-60
5. No earnings within 10 days

**Valid regimes:** Ranging, High Volatility

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### Cup & Handle
**Direction:** Long | **Family:** Momentum | **Author:** William O'Neil

A U-shaped consolidation base (cup) followed by a tight pullback (handle) and breakout above the handle high signals institutional accumulation and continuation of the prior uptrend.

**Performance (backtested):**
- Trending win rate: 69%
- Ranging win rate: 32%
- Avg R-multiple: 2.1R
- Avg hold: 16 days
- Sample size: 55 trades

**Entry checklist:**
1. Prior uptrend of 30%+ before the base
2. Cup depth between 12% and 35%
3. Cup duration 3–6 weeks minimum (longer is stronger)
4. Handle in upper 15% of cup, depth < 12%
5. Volume drying up in handle (< 50-day avg)
6. Breakout above handle high on 40%+ above avg volume
7. RS rank ≥ 80 at breakout

**Valid regimes:** Trending Up

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*This is the LLM-optimized version. Human version: https://easyswing.trading/strategies*