
The brokerage you choose to trade futures with can have an impact on your profitability, as well as your overall trading experience. A good broker should be able to help you with your strategy development, monitoring open positions, research and…
The brokerage you choose to trade futures with can have an impact on your profitability, as well as your overall trading experience. A good broker should be able to help you with your strategy development, monitoring open positions, research and…
If you’ve ever day traded stocks or futures, you probably understand the importance of using stop-loss orders. Intraday price action can be significantly affected by algorithmic trading programs and it seems as if these trading programs are designed solely to hunt…
Most sophisticated traders prefer to trade spreads over outright contracts because it may have some potential advantages over a simple outright long or short position. Intercommodity spreads are some of the most popular spreads traded, and can be very appealing to commodity traders….
While many markets trade primarily electronically, some markets (such as the S&P 500 futures market) still are still trading the open in the pit. What’s the pit you ask? Well, this is a specific area on the trading floor that…
If futures spreads are not part of your trading plan, you may be missing the boat. In fact, for the smaller retail account crowd, spread trading can have some significant potential benefits. Before we move on, know that spreads are no…
One of the advantages of the futures markets is the opportunity to trade at nearly 24 hours. Global inputs or news outside of normal stock market hours can be digested immediately in the highly traded stock index contracts on the S&P…
If you have never ever traded futures before, you are unlikely familiar with the term “limit up.” If not, let me quickly explain it for you. The term “limit up” refers to a market situation in which prices have reached…
Trading is tough. Making money trading is even tougher. For inspiration, tips, and good old fashion competition following some of the biggest stars in trading may give you push you need. Here are a few rising trading stars you need…