1-Can some one please tell me what time periods to use for macd, stochastics, relative index and moving average.2-Does anyone know what is swing trading. I heard it is the best tool in the stock market for making money.

well for moving average, you can use any timeframe you want..like a 100 day moving average will define long term trends, while a 9 day moving average will identify quicker reversals..a good thing to do is use 2 moving averages together..that way you see the price line move across the average, but you get a clearer sence of a real trend when one moving average line crosses another..Personally, a while ago, I designed a short term trading system....the moving average pairs i used were 9 and 15 day 15 and 25 day and 9 and 25 day. This was primarily designed to pick up short term trends with more volatile lower valued , more speculative stocks.Like I said, for a longer term, you could certainly use a 25 and 100 day moving average...heck there might be benfits to using a 9 and 100 day average together...the sky is the limit.For the stochastics indicators, I found that a shorter time frame is needed, because you want to pin point when the relationship between the high/close price is changing...so it the high/close is 100 % for a week, and then rapidly starts to drop....if you use a 5 or 9 day stochastic, you can readily see the percentage drop from a 100% close to a 90% close to high relationship......if you use to many days, the graph will probably look too flat.

1 - MACD = 12, 26, 9. Slow Stoch = 15, 5, 5. RSI = 14 and Moving average = use 20 day and 200 day simple.2 - In an uptrending market, you can simply buy stock and forget it for a year or two and then sell at the appreciated price. However, in a range-trend, like the trend the stock market has been facing since the past 5 years (characterised by constant highs and lows like a wave, rather than like an inclined slope), you cannot do that. So what you would do is constantly buy at the lows and sell at the highs and repear doing it. That is swing trading. The key is identifying the lows and the highs. Technical analysis helps with that, and in swing trading, that is the only tool you would need.

2 - Swing trading is buying stocks in an intermediate uptrend and holding them for anywhere from several weeks to several months.Basically, it is less stressful than daytrading and more lucrative than long term holding because you hold the stock for as long as it is going up and sell when it hits turbulence and starts basing.