Which levels should you mark for swing trading versus day trading?

Mark the previous levels at the scale of your trade. Swing traders mark the previous weekly high and low plus the intraweek swing points from the prior week. Day traders mark the previous daily high and low plus the intraday and session extremes. Scalpers mark those daily levels plus the previous session highs and lows.

The levels are where the system hunts. Price trading into one of them and printing a swing failure is the confirmation event, the same trap read at every scale.

One system, three zoom levels. The trader picks the scale that fits their life, not a new strategy for each timeframe.

Sources: My Updated Trading Strategy (2026)