The 6 Best Swing Trading Alert Services
Swing trading isn't easy.
First, you need to spend a few weeks (or longer) filtering through hundreds of stocks to find a handful that you'd like to trade, then figure out what strategies or chart patterns work best on each of those stocks.
After the upfront work is done, you need to spend multiple hours each week scanning for potential setups and plotting entry and exit points. There's a lot to it.
Or, you can subscribe to a swing trading alert service.
Most of these services are run by seasoned traders who've already found their favorite stocks and strategies to trade. After doing the hard work of scanning for and identifying trade setups, they send you alerts of the best trades to take.
However, not all swing trading services are created equally. That's why I compiled this list.
Here are the six best swing trading alert services in 2025.
Summary view
- Best overall: Mindful Trader
- Best software for algorithmic trading: Stock Market Guides
- Best for momentum investing: Alpha Picks
- Best for options: Delta Options
- Best for custom alerts: Benzinga Pro
- Best for becoming a full-time trader: Bear Bull Traders
Disclaimer: Ratings are my opinion. Actual results may vary, and past performance does not guarantee future results. All investors should do their own due diligence.
1. Best overall: Mindful Trader
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- Cost: $47/month
Mindful Trader is a swing trading service run by Eric Ferguson, an economics major from Stanford with a love for math and statistics.
Eric launched his service after spending four years researching and analyzing stock market data. He back-tested hundreds of strategies and ran thousands of simulations to find patterns and trade setups with statistical edges.
He's been a full-time trader ever since.
Eric trades algorithmically, relying on rules and long-term averages to eliminate the risk of emotions clouding his judgment.
While he doesn't expect to win every trade, he trusts the results of his back-testing and is confident in the long-term profitability of his strategy.
There are a few areas where Mindful Trader stands out:
- Transparency: Eric is very transparent about the trades he takes, why he takes them, and their results. He puts his name on everything.
- Easy to follow: Eric posts each of his trades — both stocks and options — on his website in a simple way, and also has a position-sizing calculator that tells you how many shares or contracts to buy.
- Subscriber success: Eric genuinely wants his subscribers to have success trading and makes his personal email available for any questions.
Eric trades both stocks and options and generally holds each position for 2–4 days. There are typically 1–3 new trades per day and around 10 per week.
2. Best software for algorithmic trading: Stock Market Guides
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- Cost: $49/month
Like Mindful Trader, Stock Market Guides is also built on years of back-tested data and research.
However, instead of an individual placing trades you can follow, Stock Market Guides is a software that scans for many trade ideas based on a variety of strategies.
Every trade idea it shows has a back-tested edge — more than that, each trade alert shows how that combination of stock + strategy has performed in historical backtests.
For example, the alert below was triggered on Amazon using the strategy “Blue Chips at a Discount:”
The alert shows you the historical win percentage of that strategy on Amazon (71.4%) and its annualized return (88%).
While historical price action can't tell you exactly how a stock will perform today, it can give you an indication of where it may move next. This is a massive advantage.
Because of how many different strategies there are to choose from, you can get as many as 30 or more swing trading alerts from Stock Market Guides every day.
Most trades last between three days and two weeks.
3. Best for momentum investing: Alpha Picks
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- Cost: $499/year (new members can get their first year for $399 through our link)
Alpha Picks is a stock-picking newsletter service that invests based on momentum.
While it's not a true swing trading service (its average holding period is ~1.5 years), I still think it deserves a place on this list because it buys and sells stocks based on swing trading principles (momentum, technical analysis, and quantitative analysis).
Like other swing trading services, Alpha Picks doesn't get every trade right and often picks stocks that lose money. This is part of the strategy, though, as the team is more focused on picking huge winners, which buoy the entire portfolio.
And that's exactly what has happened so far.
Since its launch in July 2022, Alpha Picks' average pick is beating the S&P by 2.7x.
You can read more details about its performance in my Alpha Picks Review.
Plus, because of its long-term focus, there are typically only 2–3 trade alerts per month — making it much easier to follow than other swing trading services, which is especially nice if you have a busy schedule.
4. Best for options: Delta Options
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- Cost: $119/month or $949/year
Delta Options is another service that provides two trade alerts per month, but its alerts are different from the others on this list.
For starters, Delta Options is like Alpha Picks in that its trades typically last 1–2 years as opposed to 1–2 weeks (like regular swing trading services).
Additionally, instead of investing in individual stocks, the service buys deep-in-the-money call options with expiration dates more than one year into the future. These options simulate owning regular shares but require less capital.
As a result, the gains (and losses) can be quite large — its positions in POWL and MHO gained more than 2,000% each, but it has also had several picks lose more than -90%.
However, as a whole, the portfolio has outpaced the S&P 500 by 10x since its launch (201.25% vs 19.38%, as of May 2025).
This strategy isn't for everyone. The built-in leverage of these options multiplies gains and losses and can make for a volatile portfolio.
Additionally, the team recommends having a portfolio size of at least $100,000 (which you can allocate 5–10% of in its strategy, leaving the rest in traditional investments).
What I like about the service is the team doesn't make any false promises — they're transparent about the performance, and they're taking their trades with their own money.
5. Best for custom alerts: Benzinga Pro
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- Cost: Starting at $37/month
Benzinga Pro is a “control center” for day and swing traders. It is a platform with trading information, a stock screener, market data, and real-time news.
Unlike the other services on this list, Benzinga Pro itself doesn't send trade alerts — it's a tool for experienced, self-directed traders.
That said, you can set custom trade alerts, which will send you a notification when a stock you're watching hits a certain price point or other criteria are met. Your notifications can come in the form of desktop alerts or emails.
Additionally, there is a very active chat room where traders share the moves they're making each day.
This service isn't for beginners, but if you're an intermediate or advanced trader and are looking for a platform to help take your trading to the next level, you may be interested in starting a trial with Benzinga Pro.
6. Best for becoming a full-time trader: Bear Bull Traders
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- Cost: Starting at $99/month
Bear Bull Traders was founded by Canadian trader Andrew Aziz.
The service was launched primarily as a trading alert service but has morphed into a much more community-focused offering over the last few years.
Today, the service mostly caters to advanced traders or those who want to make a full-time income from their trading.
In addition to the trade alerts posted by Aziz and a few other lead traders, there is a real-time chatroom, a live trading screen, and a trade ideas scanner, all of which serve as pillars of the service.
Additionally, there is weekly training, in-person conferences, and online education. You can also get access to experienced mentors and trading psychologists.
If you do join Bear Bull Traders, keep an eye out for notifications from Brian Pezim. Pezim posts the vast majority of the swing trading alerts, usually around 2–3 per week.
How we chose the best swing trading alert services
When evaluating investing products and services, we take the following into consideration:
- Core offering: How was our experience testing the service? What's the win rate? How much money will a new member make in their first year and beyond?
- Price/fees: Overall price, value for money, average cost per month, and how that compares to competitors.
- Usability: How easy is the service to follow? Are the trade alerts simple to read and implement?
- Credibility: Track record, quality of advice, transparency, and brand reputation.
- Audience: Who the product is for, whether it actually works for its target audience, if it's the best option available, and any limitations therein.
- Offers: Whether there is a special offer for signing up or any discounts.
Final verdict
If you're having a hard time determining which of these services is best for you, try answering the following questions:
- How many trade alerts per week would you like to receive?
- How important is it for you to learn the strategies behind the trades you're taking?
- Would you rather receive alerts from a specific trader or use software that triggers alerts based on predefined rules?
Based on your answers to these questions, you should be able to narrow the list above down to one or two options. From there, you can pick one, test it out, and see if it's a good fit.
