Which Trading Time Horizon Is Right for You?
Choose by how long you can hold, how often you can monitor, and whether you can accept overnight risk. Product fit is a workflow decision, not a promise of better returns.
Horizon comparison
| Product | Typical horizon | Attention | Key constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day Trade | Same session, up to 240 RTH minutes | High | No overnight carry |
| Overnight Trade | About 0.5–2 sessions | Active | Overnight gap risk |
| Swing Trade | Typically 1–5 sessions; 20-session maximum | Periodic | Multi-day event and gap risk |
| Rapid Trade | Card specific | High | Read every card's duration |
| Investing | Weeks to many months | Low | Long-horizon ownership risk |
Choose by your real attention budget
Day Trade is for users who can monitor a same-session card. Overnight Trade allows a short carry window but accepts overnight gaps. Swing Trade is slower and can cross earnings, weekends, and news. Rapid is a denser feed whose cards can use different clocks. Investing is long-only ownership research rather than an active trade stream.
Combining products
You can follow more than one lane, but do not treat the grades, clocks, or risk scales as interchangeable. An A grade is scoped to its own product and source context. Read each card independently and control aggregate portfolio exposure yourself.
Slower is often easier to follow
A product you can monitor consistently is more useful than a faster product you repeatedly enter late or abandon mid-lifecycle.
See Models and Products for the full public product map.
Which horizon is best for a beginner?
There is no universal answer. Start with the slowest horizon you can follow consistently and whose carry risks you understand.
Is Rapid the fastest model?
Rapid is the high-activity product, but its cards can have different duration classes. Read the card rather than assuming one universal clock.
Can I compare grades across horizons?
No. Grades are lane-specific and do not create a universal cross-product ranking.