Tips from Fintokei’s top swing traders
We’ve recently launched ProTrader Swing - a challenge designed for position and swing traders. If you’re aiming to reach payouts with a slower, more relaxed style, our top swing traders have a few tips for you.
Swing trading vs. other styles
There isn’t just one guaranteed path to trading success. Scalping offers tons of opportunities every day, but it eats up your focus and your time. Intraday is a bit lighter, but still requires a daily routine of scanning charts, entering trades, and closing them before the day ends.
Swing trading, on the other hand, comes with more freedom. You can hold positions for weeks, and you don’t need to nail the entry down to the pip. Plus, with ProTrader Swing, losses on open trades don’t count towards the daily loss limit, so random market noise won’t kick you out of the game.
And unlike many of our competitors, you don’t pay a cent more for this program – it costs exactly the same as our standard ProTrader challenge.
Who are Fintokei’s best swing traders?
Sebastian
Fresh out of high school, Sebastian already made his way to becoming a full-time trader – thanks in part to Fintokei. His motto is simple: “I trade for life, I don’t live for trading.” He focuses strictly on technical analysis and loves trading volatile JPY pairs.
Sebastian’s tips:
- Top-down analysis – always start with the higher timeframe to see the trend, then refine your entry on the lower one.
- Risk management – stick to 1–2% risk per trade. On a 100K account that’s max one 2-lot position. Cutting losses is key.
- Plan = peace – when you know upfront how much you can lose or make, stress disappears. Approaching your max loss? Stop trading. Same goes for profits. Without a trading plan, results won’t come.
- Self-development – get to know yourself before you build your system. Sebastian says this mindset helped him both as a former pro skier and now as a full-time trader.
- Trade for life – trading is a way to earn money, not an identity. That’s why he swings – no endless hours staring at charts.
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Bernd
A professional trader based in Dubai. He’s known for fighting fake “trading gurus,” teaching others, and at the same time delivering impressive results himself.
Bernd’s tips:
- Rules – find your own system and stick to it. If it works and brings consistent results, don’t change it. Consistency beats chasing “the perfect” strategy.
- Avoid chop – stay away from sideways markets. Wait for clear bullish or bearish trends and trade them.
- Risk manager mindset – you’re not a trader, you’re a risk manager. Always remember that.
- Less is more – focus on quality over quantity. Have strict entry criteria and only trade when they’re all met. Sometimes you won’t trade for a whole week – and that’s fine. Patience is the biggest edge a swing trader can have.
