Jenis-jenis Trader

1. Scalper

Menggunakan teknik scalping iaitu mengambil profit yang sedikit-sedikit, selalunya kurang daripada 80 pips untuk setiap trade.
Scalper selalunya trade lebih daripada 10 kali dalam sehari.
Mendapat untung yang banyak apabila membuka banyak position dan mengumpul jumlah pip yang sedikit bagi setiap position.

English

Scalping (or micro-trading) is all about taking very small profits, repeatedly. Typically, trades last from seconds to minutes.
Scalping is a trading strategy that attempts to make some profits on small price changes. Traders who implement this strategy will place anywhere from 10 to a few hundred trades in a single day in the belief that small moves in stock prices are easier to catch than large ones.
Scalping is an expert skill and, although many people find the idea attractive (and exciting for adrenaline junkies), I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners.

2. Day Trader

Selalunya akan membuka posisi lot berdasarkan kepada ramalan yang berat sebelah (bias) diawal operasi pasaran dan akan berakhir sama ada untung ataupun rugi.
Position dibuka tidak lebih daripada 24 jam
Merupakan Short Term Trader.

English

Day trading is all about buying and selling on the same day, without holding positions overnight. Compared to scalping, this style calls for holding positions for minutes to hours versus seconds to minutes. A day trader closes out all trades before the market closes. Most day traders use leverage to magnify the returns generated from small price movements.
Day trading is often glamorised as an easy way to get rich quickly. However, this is rarely the case. Day traders typically suffer severe financial losses in their first months of trading and many never graduate to profit-making status. Day traders are handicapped by the bid-ask spread, trading commissions, and other expenses. These costs require day traders to earn significant trading profits just to break even.
Both scalping and day trading requires strong discipline; the time and ability to learn how to trade a tested and profitable strategy rapidly; and enough capital to withstand sudden and, possibly, larger-than-expected losses.
Both scalping and day trading is what is known as intraday trading. If you buy and sell shares in a single day, then you are considered to have traded intraday. An intraday trader opens (buys) and closes (sells) their trades (also called positions) within the trading day, leaving no trades open overnight.

3. Swing Trader

Posisi lot dibuka lebih daripada 24 jam dan beberapa hari dalam satu tempoh masa.
Merupakan Mid-Term Trader.
Mereka lebih suka trade mengikut arah trend, terutamanya trend yang besar (major trend pada timeframe 4 hour atau daily dan sebagainya).
Trader akan dikenakan daily interest apabila position mereka dibiarkan/dibuka melebihi tempoh 24 jam.

English

Swing trading is the art of capturing the short-term trend. It is a style of trading that attempts to capture gains in a stock within one to seven days.
Swing traders use technical analysis to look for stocks with short-term price momentum.
These traders are not interested in the fundamentals or the intrinsic value of stocks, but rather in their price trends and patterns.
In my opinion, swing trading and position trading are the only two types of trading in which a person with a full-time job can still consistently trade well part-time.
Since the holding period is several days, intraday moves will not affect the swing trader as much as they would a day trader. A typical holding period for a swing trade is three to seven days.

4. Position Trader

Posisi lot dibuka untuk beberapa minggu, bulan mahupun tahun.
Trader jenis ini memiliki kefahaman pasaran untuk jangka panjang dan selalunya tindakan Trader ini adalah berdasarkan kepada faktor-faktor pasaran semasa membuat analisis.
Dengan kefahaman analisis yang dilakukan, keputusan dibuat adalah berdasarkan kepada kesimpulan keseluruhan analisis tersebut.
Timeframe yang menjadi rujukan utama adalah Weekly and Monthly.

English

Position traders stay in trades for weeks to months. The position trader endeavours to anticipate whether the current trend will continue for a much longer term than a momentum or swing trade.
Position trading gives traders who cannot trade frequently a lot of freedom: profit potential is not diminished and position traders can make considerable gains.
Long-term traders are not concerned with short-term fluctuations, because they believe that their long-term investment horizons will smooth these out.
Position trading is the polar opposite of day trading because the goal is to profit from the move in the primary trend, rather than the short-term fluctuations that occur from day to day.
None of these types of trading are limited to buying. With certain types of instruments, the trader can also short (or short-sell) the stock. This means that profits can be made in both rising and falling markets.

5. Momentum Trader

Trader jenis ini adalah seorang yang hanya akan masuk ke dalam pasaran Forex hanya apabila terdapat "HOT NEWS" ataupun "BREAKING NEWS" dengan mengambil keuntungan semaksima yang mampu melalui momentum pasaran yang berlaku pada waktu itu dengan jumlah lot yang besar dalam satu arah pergerakan matawang tersebut.
Jenis time frame untuk pasaran momentum ini kebiasaannya akan berlangsung untuk beberapa jam sehingga beberapa hari dan ia juga bergantung dengan seberapa cepat matawang itu berubah arah.

English

In momentum trading, the trader identifies a stock that is “breaking out” and jumps on to capture as much of the momentum on the way up or down as possible.
They focus on stocks that are moving significantly in one direction on high volume.

The typical time frame for momentum trading is several hours to several days, depending on how quickly the stock moves and when it changes direction.

When choosing a trading type to suit your needs, here are some questions to ask: