Many years ago I discovered that a friend of mine from college worked for a very famous futures trader at an offshore location. I immediately contacted him and we had the opportunity to talk about a few trading war stories. I had only been trading for a couple years and had made some money using [...]
Read More...In their book “Street Smarts” published in the mid-1990′s, Larry Connors and Linda Raschke gave one of the strategies they presented the tongue-in-cheek name “Holy Grail.” The beauty of the strategy was its simplicity….you look for a strong trend, a pullback to a 20 period moving average, and then resumption of the trend to enter [...]
Read More...In the world of futures trading, you will often hear about the concept of “trading with an edge.” This concept is equally important in the stock market as well, but most market pundits will simply tell the uninformed investor that the market goes up in the long run, so the edge is to simply stay [...]
Read More...If you haven’t noticed, unleaded gas prices have been rising pretty sharply in recent weeks. Here in my neck of the woods, prices bottomed out late last year at under $3.30 per gallon, and today I noticed them up to $3.74. So far this year, RBOB gasoline futures have traced out a similar pattern to [...]
Read More...The great recession began in the Fall of 2007 and some would argue that we have not yet begun a recovery. At that time, the S&P 500 peaked with a high close just under 1550. Over the next 18 months or so, it declined to a low under 700, or a drop of over 50%. [...]
Read More...Most investors have a need to know WHY an investment will go up or down in price. As a result, most of the analysts you see on the financial networks tend to spew out information regarding the fundamentals of the economy, individual stocks and commodities. Unfortunately, most of this analysis doesn’t do the investor any [...]
Read More...If you are new to futures trading, I highly recommend you consider the currency futures first, and forget about day trading. Why the currencies? Simply because they trend better than any other market. I’ve found that most new futures traders want to jump head first into trading anything that moves, and they are particularly fond [...]
Read More...I participate in a few investing forums, particularly those dealing with alternative investments such as futures trading and forex trading. What I find most prevalent among the participants in these forums is that they are looking for some sort of holy grail methodology that will propel them to riches over night. For instance, I read [...]
Read More...One of the goals of many traders is to find a trading system that completely automates the trading process, and provides the trader with spectacular returns. Indeed, many successful commodity trading advisors (CTAs) employ a completely systematic approach to their trading. One reason CTAs do this is that it is easier to raise money from [...]
Read More...Businesses and people often get involved price forecasting in the futures markets, since virtually all market behavior and pricing decisions are based upon expectations for future prices. For example, a corn farmer may expect declining prices due to favorable weather conditions during the growing season. As such, he will likely hedge his crop in order [...]
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