i've been using earnings date as an automatic position review trigger and it's helped me avoid a lot of unnecessary holds

this sounds obvious but it wasn't obvious to me when i started swing trading i used to enter a swing trade and just manage it based on price action. set a stop, let it run, trail the stop when it worked. didn't really think about the calendar except to avoid buying right into earnings the problem is that a lot of my positions were getting held too long not because the trade was working but because i didn't have a forcing function to review them. position goes flat for 3 weeks, stop never gets hi