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Technical Analysis 101: What Is the Parabolic SAR?

Active traders have a vast array of technical tools and indicators to deploy. One of the most basic and useful is the parabolic SAR (PSAR).

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Tips & Strategies

Using Futures and Options to Protect Your Portfolio from Systematic Risk

Systematic risk is a term used to describe the probability of a broad-based market meltdown occurring. Although comprehensive market crashes are...

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Futures 101

What Are Futures Options Brokers?

Futures options brokers furnish aspiring traders with a means of pursuing almost any financial goal in the derivatives markets. A few of the core...

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Ag Marketing

Maximize Your Harvest with Grain Futures Trading

Accurately predicting the financial result of your grain harvest months ahead of time is certainly a challenge. A litany of factors impact the final...

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Futures Investing

How to Trade Micro WTI Crude Oil Futures Contracts

When it comes to commodities, energies are an exceedingly popular asset class. And, within the energies segment, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude...

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Trading Strategy

Scalping Options: What It Means and How to Become a Scalper

Scalping is an ultra-short-term trading strategy in which the trader repeatedly tries to buy the bid or sell the offer and then shortly exits the...

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Tips & Strategies

Trading vs. Investing: Which Is Right for Your Financial Plan?

It is a common misconception that traders and investors are the same. Although it is true that both may pursue profits by buying and selling futures...

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Futures Spread Trading

3 Benefits Of Futures Spread Trading

Futures spread trading is a unique discipline that offers many benefits to practitioners. Featuring reduced margin requirements, extensive strategic...

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Technical Analysis of Stocks: Understand the Pros and Cons

In today’s equities marketplace, the technical analysis of stocks is a popular discipline. Each day, millions of market participants use tools,...

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Risk Management

Manage Your Risk with These Three Futures Trading Safe Havens

In the real world, the term safe haven refers to a physical place where a person can escape from danger. In finance, a safe haven is an asset that...

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