Risk-first lessons for swing traders.
Swing Trading the Stock Market treats trading as a risk-management problem before it treats it as a profit opportunity. Ryan Mallory works through listener questions, market pullbacks, shorting, mentor selection, and emotional control with a practical, sometimes repetitive teaching style.
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Swing Trading the Stock Market is a practical trading education show with risk management at its center. It is not built around market glamour. It is built around what can go wrong when a trader gets too big, too emotional, too exposed, or too willing to believe the next clean story. Ryan Mallory speaks from the perspective of someone trying to teach swing trading as a repeatable discipline rather than a personality test. The episodes lean heavily on solo explanation. A listener question or market event gives the episode a starting point, then the show moves through examples, warnings, caveats, and practical rules. The pace is brisk, but the thinking often circles back on itself. That repetition is part of the method. The same lesson may be tested against margin calls, difficult markets, shorting stocks, passive investing, geopolitical conflict, or the simple fact that losing trades are unavoidable. The show has a particular interest in emotional scale. Trading a larger account is framed as a psychological problem as much as a financial one, because the same market move feels different when the position has grown by a lot. The same caution shows up in episodes about volatile markets. Pullbacks in the S&P, weakness in the Russell 2000, and periods of sideways price action are treated as conditions that demand restraint rather than heroics. Shorting is handled in a similar way, with attention to inverse ETFs and the benefit of spreading risk instead of betting against one individual stock. Mentor and course discussions are also filtered through skepticism. The show is alert to salesmanship in trading education, while still making room for structured learning when it is serious and durable. Its strongest value is its insistence that traders get comfortable with losses before they chase winners. The result is dense, opinionated, and instructional. Heavy advertising and promotional segments appear around the lessons, and some episodes close with explicit Christian references. Underneath that framing, the editorial through-line is consistent: trade smaller, think longer, and keep the damage contained.
Made for: Best for active or aspiring swing traders who want concrete rules for position sizing, losses, volatility, shorting, and difficult markets. It also suits investors who are curious about trading psychology but do not want hype-driven market chatter.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating almost every topic as a risk-control lesson, whether the trigger is war headlines, margin changes, a large account, or a normal losing streak. Its strength is the repeated translation of market stress into practical trading behavior.
Welcome to Swing Trading the Stock Market Podcast!I want you to become a better trader, and you know what? You absolutely can!Commit these three rules to memory and to your trading:#1: Manage the RISK ALWAYS!#2: Keep the Losses Small#3: Do #1 & #2 and the profits will take care of themselves. That's right, successful swing-trading is about managing the risk, and with Swing Trading the Stock Market podcast, I encourage you to email me ([email protected]) your questions, and there's a good chance I'll make a future podcast out of your stock market related question.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ryan Mallory makes swing-trading discipline concrete through listener questions, candid mistakes, and close attention to risk, position size, and emotion.
Swing Trading the Stock Market turns listener questions into practical lessons about decisions made before, during, and after a trade. Ryan Mallory works in a direct solo format, drawing on his own mistakes while returning to risk controls, position sizing, and the emotional…
A $10,000 position becomes $200,000, and Ryan Mallory asks what happens to your nerves.
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A grounded look at how dynamic broker risk controls could affect active traders.
Ryan Mallory treats the shift in trading guardrails as a move away from a fixed dollar line and toward broker-managed risk controls that can adjust in real time. His focus is practical: what happens when a trader's exposure pushes past margin limits.
A steady warning that bigger positions can make small losses feel dangerous.
Ryan Mallory centers the discussion on the discipline required when position sizes get larger. After a big gain, the focus is on locking down gains first, including paying off a mortgage or setting aside interest-bearing assets to cover insurance and property taxes.
A plainspoken look at whether a trading mentor is worth having.
Ryan Mallory builds the episode around a simple question: whether a trading mentor is truly necessary, or whether success more often comes from time, effort, and experience.
A practical look at dollar-cost averaging, shaped by the frustration of sideways markets.
Dollar-cost averaging gets a grounded, practical hearing as Ryan Mallory takes up Hog Hawkins's question about whether the approach still makes sense when the long-term market trend points higher.
A clear, practical episode on using broad inverse ETFs to spread short exposure while respecting volatility risk.
Ryan Mallard keeps the episode grounded in a simple trading problem: shorting can work, but concentrated short exposure can turn ugly fast. From there, he moves into inverse ETFs, using SH, SDS, QID, and PSQ to show how a trader can spread a bearish position across the S&P 500…
A grounded case for building disciplined swing-trading habits around full-time work.
Balancing a full-time job with swing trading comes across here as possible, but only with process, discipline, and realistic expectations. Ryan Mallory grounds the discussion in a listener's early experience with stocks, the slow pace of learning, and the confidence that can…
A $4 million account turns the focus from trading bigger to deciding what must be protected first.
Trading bigger begins with protecting what has already been won. Ryan Mallory looks at a trader with $4 million and asks whether the ability to trade larger positions automatically makes that the right move.
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This episode discusses how luck and skill intertwine in stock market trading, inspired by an email from a listener nicknamed 'the yoinker' after a Florida man who interacts with wild animals.
Ryan Mallory addresses a listener named 'Gardner' who sold company equity for $4 million and seeks advice on swing trading with large sums.
Ryan Mallory addresses an email from a listener named Texas Sunshine about balancing swing trading with a full-time job.
Ryan Mallory introduces the SharePlanner swing trading terminal, a tool he says took about a year to build.
Ryan Mallory explains that the SEC agreed to accept FINRA’s proposal to eliminate the Pattern Day Trading rule, which restricted accounts under $25,000 to three day trades within five days.
Big money can mess with your judgment.
Ryan Mallory spends this episode on a simple question: what makes a good trading mentor, and whether one is really worth having.
This episode discusses strategies for trading in challenging stock market conditions, focusing on recent pullbacks and comparisons to past market corrections.
This episode teaches traders how to strategically manage risk in the stock market during geopolitical conflicts like war, focusing on avoiding emotional reactions to headlines and maintaining discipline.
Ryan Mallory considers Hog Hawkins's question about whether dollar-cost averaging can carry someone through the long term.
Ryan Mallard on SharePlanner.com's Swing Trading the Stock Market explains why he avoids shorting individual names and prefers inverse ETFs like SH, SDS, QID, and PSQ.
This episode discusses the importance of becoming comfortable with losing in trading, contrasting it with marketing that only highlights wins.
The host discusses how luck and skill intertwine in stock market trading, using a humorous email from a listener nicknamed 'the yoinker' inspired by a Florida man who interacts with wild animals.
This episode explores the feasibility of balancing swing trading with a full-time job, drawing from the host's personal experience and a listener's question about developing a solid trading strategy.
This episode discusses current stock market conditions, focusing on a recent 10% correction from all-time highs and the emotional context for traders.