Learning to be a professional Futures trader involves much more than just technical analysis.
Beyond Technical Analysis of Futures Markets
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Stock Indexes Circuit Breakers and Trading Hours
Understanding trading hours and circuit breakers in the Futures markets can be rather confusing to new Futures traders.
Watching the Smart Money
Just 3 components make the Commercial trader the smart money in the Futures markets and speculators usually lose when they bet against them.
Finding Your Trading Style
Among the many things a successful trader must do is to identify what trading style they wish to have.
Futures Charting ? Write Your Congressman!
Well, maybe we don?t have to take it to this extreme. But if there is one thing I wish the Futures industry would do is that they would standardize the charts we use to make our trading decisions.
Old School Meets New Students ? Getting a Handle on Interest Rate Futures Contracts
Part of understanding a Futures contract is to understand what a minimum tick and the dollar value of that minimum tick is.
Enhancing A Commodity Turning Point
In class I point out that the smart money traders are the Commercials.
Setting Up A Commodity Trade
Once a Futures trader has been trading the Financial Futures markets for a while they may want to begin trading the physical Commodity Futures markets.
Commitment of Traders Disaggregated Report
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released a report since 1962 showing what positions were held by Speculators and Commercial traders.
Futures Market Questions From the Classroom
At Online Trading Academy we encourage our students to ask questions. Not only does this promote good community in the classroom, but it gets other students to start thinking out of the box and asking their own questions.
Interesting Events in Interest Rates
Part of my article today is about an event that happened at the end of December.
Remember When a Stop Market Was a Stop Market?
I recently received an email from one of my Singapore students who had a very good question about using Stops in the Futures markets.