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How Do I Get Started Trading Stocks?

The U.S. equities markets are vast and feature a wide array of unique opportunities. Regardless of your expertise, there’s a sector, mutual fund,...

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Trading Strategy

What Is Your Futures Trading Style?

Futures trading requires both creativity and a pragmatic approach to conducting day-to-day business. Unlike professions where you work in a group or...

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Technical Indicators

Three Types of Technical Indicators for Day Trading

In the contemporary marketplace, technical analysis is the driving force behind a broad spectrum of trading strategies. Whether you’re engaging the...

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Education

Futures Trading Tools You Probably Don’t Know About

Futures trading tools come in all shapes and sizes, each designed to help traders sustain profitability. No matter whether you are a strict market...

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Futures Trading

5 Key Benefits Of Futures Trading In The Digital Age

Since the dawn of the 21st century, advancing technologies have made the open outcry trading pits of decades past all but obsolete. Business in the...

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Futures Trading

Why Oil Futures Trading May Be Your Best Market

Frequently referred to as the “wild west” of the financial markets, oil futures trading has a reputation for being an incredibly volatile endeavor....

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Crude Oil

EIA vs. API Weekly Crude Oil Inventory

Just as it’s important for grain traders to watch a WASDE report, it is equally important for oil and gas traders to watch the release of an energy...

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Futures Markets

Understanding Market Correlations

A market correlation is a measure, statistical or observational that identifies a positive or negative link between the pricing of multiple assets....

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Tips & Strategies

Leading Strategies for Trading COMEX Copper Futures

The first CME Group copper futures contract was traded on July 29, 1988. Known as “high-grade copper,” the product provided traders and investors a...

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Futures 101

What Is an Inverse ETF and How Do I Make Money Selling Them?

An exchange-traded fund, or ETF, is a type of security that is traded on formal stock exchanges such as the NYSE or NASDAQ. Like mutual funds,...

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