Refers to a type of short term (one day to a couple of weeks) trading, triggered by technical analysis, for example, momentum
Swing trading sits in the middle of the continuum between day trading to trend following. A day trader will hold a stock anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours but never more than a day; a trend trader examines the long-term fundamental trends of a stock or index and may hold the stock for a few weeks or months. Swing traders hold a particular stock for a period of time, generally between a few days and two or three weeks, and they will trade the stock on the basis of its intra-week or intra-month oscillations between optimism and pessimism.