Swing trading strategies in the stock market mainly capture short- to medium-term price movements in a trend. Therefore, traders are poised to hold a particular position between several days and weeks in the hope of capturing 'swings' in the market. Basically, the strategies are patterned around the identification of chart patterns: double tops, falling wedge, upward rising channel patterns, etc. - on the basis of technical indicators like moving averages or pivots studying market trends.