Position trading holds trades for weeks to months (sometimes longer), based primarily on fundamental and macro views rather than short-term technical setups. It's the lowest-frequency trading style, requiring the smallest time commitment day-to-day but the largest tolerance for drawdown while a long-term thesis plays out.
Because positions stay open for so long, swap costs (or income, on a positive-carry trade) accumulate meaningfully and become a real factor in overall returns.
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Choosing a Trading Platform: MT4, MT5, cTrader and the Broker's Own
The platform decides which orders you can place, whether your stops survive a closed laptop, and how much you would have to rewrite to leave. What actually differs between the options — and the point where the platform stops mattering and the broker takes over.