SwingTrader Reviews

SwingTrader is supposed to give you alerts on swing ideas by the geniuses at IBD. However multiple times during the day it kicks you out and logs you off without notice and you have to retype your password. It also slams this weird thing in your face where you have to hold your thumb on the screen to ‘prove’ that you are human, randomly throughout the day. Supposing SwingTrader hasn’t logged you out, when there is an alert, you have to play a game of where’s Waldo to actually see what the alert symbol is. It may take you 1 to 2 minutes of fiddling on SwingTrader and jumping from screen to screen to see what the genius idea from IBD is. The alerts are not timely if I’m getting them 2 minutes after it’s been sent. All this supposing there is actual value in their alerts. We’re not in 2020 anymore and you have to struggle to see a difference between performance of IBD swing ideas and a random basket of Nasdaq/S&P stocks.

Notifications are always late sells or buys. Its hard to follow it, lots of times the buy point is already out of the range.
Many will reverse, some may make you money.
They never go by the stop loss, never wait a notification to sell!
I made some money but it was way too many losses and few wins. Too much work and stress. I ll make way more just buying and leaving your money long term in a good stock.

What a terrible app! Lacks basic functionality like notifications, easy navigation. The email button is not doing anything.

The trading strategy that they use at IBD does not work for swing trading. Tried SwingTrader twice in two years, and lost money both times. Leaderboard might be better, but even that app wasn’t great. Save your money and stay away from SwingTrader.

SwingTrader is slowed update trades. Sometimes it takes 10 to 20 minutes. You get notifications on the email 10 minutes before getting them on SwingTrader . in order to get the trades in a timely manner you have to check between the website SwingTrader if you use the VPN Jay Howard will cancel your account.

I have done the math for 2016 to present (May 2021). You are supposed to invest 12.5% of your portfolio on every single alert. For the past 6 years the IBD swing trader return is 8.96%, whereas that of the S&P 500 for the same period is 9.5%. You have to pay subscriptions, respond to alerts, and manage your account. Just put your money into the S&P 500 index. Read John Bogle’s “The little book of common sense investing”!

Constantly shows empty screen, can’t handle any load when new alert comes in SwingTrader . Two times today clicked on the alert for new trade and app shows me no data. By the time it refreshes, trade is out of the range. This is 2021 , for such a basic app it should not be having this kind of problems. Change your software developers, they don’t know what they are doing.

I’ve been using SwingTrader for about 9 months. The concept and user design of SwingTrader and service is fine with me.

However, the display of information is very buggy which makes it almost unusable. For me, the alerts come through reliably, although always too late to get a price close to the ST purchase price.

But, the biggest problem is trying to get the current trades to show up in the trades list. More than 50% of the time it is blank, even after trying to refresh multiple times.

If you can sit in front of a computer all day, ST is good. If you need to use SwingTrader at all, it’s terrible.

IBD has blemish with this that doesn’t match up with all their other offerings. Very disappointed in the quality problem here.

Compared to all other sleek and well functioning IBD apps, this one feels and behaves like trash. It can’t even keep me logged in for a few hours. I have to log on multiple times a day. Especially if I click on any tab to leave current trades, it won’t go back to current trades before force shutting SwingTrader and logging back in. It couldn’t be more annoying. If you can’t manage to keep me logged in, at least implement Face ID so I can log in faster and easier. Shouldn’t be THAT hard, right?

With the current market in an uptrend, a beginner could throw a dart at any strong stock and do equally or better than this over-priced service. The Buy Alerts are delayed/received too late, after the stock has already broken out, too late to get in at the right price for a profit but lose money on the inevitable dip after a break out. This issue has been going on for years. Other stock services can send out timely alerts and post Buy Stops in advance but the Swing Trade staff has delusions of grandeur and think that would cause the Market Maker to push up the price even though these buy zones are posted elsewhere in IBD. Do t waste your money.

I can’t believe that signing up for the overpriced paid subscription has provided me with the worst information on the Internet! Shame on you for selling such junk-that has apparently always been junk (my bad for skipping the reviews). Why don’t you go on your cell phones and actually try using your own product. Better yet, if you’re so proud of what you’ve built, find several novice investors and give them each $10,000 OF YOUR PERSONAL MONEY. They can keep anything they earn above that but owe you nothing if they lose!
(I’ll be waiting anxiously to see that happen!)
~FELLOW TRADERS BEWARE~
••• I tried out this app as instructed [MID BULL RUN] and I lost more in that single week than I had in 6 months of aggressive trading.
BETTER OFF LETTING YOUR KIDS•PETS•PSYCHIC•ELDERLY RELATIVES... PICK YOUR TRADES!

way too many emails and push notifications that say "a new position was added in a stock." Always list the symbol in all alerts please!

Marketing material on their website shows a slick looking full screen app on an iPad. Such a thing does not exist. App is phone size, looking anything but slick as such. It’s not 2007 any more. If IBD can’t be bothered to provide a full screen iPad app … they don’t deserve subscription dollars. Others indicate alerts are delayed. Swing trading relies heavily on timing. A delay is alerts is unacceptable.

Typically by the time you get the notifications of a trade, the buy point or sell point has already past. Some of the trades are questionable and it almost feels as if this is a robo trader. Some of the stocks they choose for trading have been on decline for the past two weeks but will be up one day to a buy point as the overall market has risen. However once the market takes a dip for that particular day, the stock now moves into the stop loss point.

SwingTrader has cringe worthy glitches. The charts specifically work like half the time. If you use your fingers to try and zoom out nothing happens. It’s frustrating because within the chart are informative bumbles that point at candles providing you with information about the trades. These bubbles aren’t always viewable and are out of the picture on your screen, and SwingTrader has no zoom out feature. Please fix this! Giving 2 stars because the information it provides is great however SwingTrader is so bad I had to knock off 3 stars.

First off I’d like to say I think the world of WO and the IBD team. I loved this idea and allows me to come up with my own ideas and take advantage of the insights of the best traders in the industry.

My issue is the awful functionality of SwingTrader. If I go from current trades to another section of SwingTrader , and back again, the current trade section shows up blank. No matter how many times I refreshed, it doesn’t work. Also things move fast. So when I click on the position size calculator, and 9/10 times it doesn’t correlate with the stock I was just clicked on, I can’t even use it.

I’m wondering is this just an iPhone problem?
It would also be super helpful if SwingTrader was linked to IBD so we can check out the fundamentals and other technicals.

推送不及时，建仓完全不遵循CANSLIM理念。

First, The latest release keeps signing me off even though I check the “stay logged in” field. Please fix as this is causing delays with my trading.
Second, on the older versions, when notifications were sent out, it would include the stock symbol and entry price point. That notification is no longer available and I have to get into SwingTrader to see the price points. Can you please add this feature back as it provided faster entry points for me.

Details of the trade set up is accurate because i learned the skill of trading first as a swing trader i always look at support and resistance to give me an indication of if to buy and sell and i compare that to SwingTrader and it’s spot on

The first month is free and I’ve made a profit within the first week that paid for SwingTrader for a few months

Awesome app. If you know how to manage your risk, this will consistently make you money without having to think. A great “passive” side gig!