How do you pick between swing and day trading?

The honest variables: your free hours, your emotional tolerance for overnight risk, and your capital. Day trading needs presence; swing trading needs patience and swap awareness. Most people pick the exciting one first and the suitable one later.

How did you choose?

• the constraints that decided it
• whether you tried the other one and failed
• the test you'd suggest to someone undecided

The trading styles guide lists the demands of each.