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Futures Markets

Energy Futures: A Look at the Crude Oil & Natural Gas Trade

The global energy futures marketplace facilitates the trade of a diverse array of participants. No matter if a producer is hedging systemic...

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Bearish

The Breakdown of Bull and Bear Spreads

When it comes right down to it, there are two perspectives that a trader can have on a market: bullish or bearish. If you’re bullish, then you expect...

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Tips & Strategies

How Does Summer Seasonality Impact Gasoline Futures?

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers the public a variety of energy products facing the commodity and refined fuel sectors. Among these...

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Tips & Strategies

Manage Your Currency Risk With A Robust Forex Hedging Strategy

For investors and producers who participate in the global markets, currency risk is a very real consideration. Currency risk, also known as...

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Tips & Strategies

What Is Deviation in Forex, and How Do You Apply It to Your Trading Strategy?

In terms of capitalization, the world’s largest market is the foreign exchange marketplace, or “forex.” With more than $5 trillion in daily traded...

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Tips & Strategies

Using the Stochastic Oscillator to Identify Overbought and Oversold Markets

Active futures trading offers many ways of capitalizing on opportunities. Among the most popular are identifying markets that are becoming overbought...

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Tips & Strategies

How to Make Money Trading Gold

For more than 5,000 years, gold has been a mode of exchange, an artistic medium, and a store of wealth. Although the yellow metal’s primary functions...

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Tips & Strategies

Using the CME FEDWatch Tool to Trade FED Policy

When it comes to finance, monetary policy is the quintessential market driver. No matter what you’re trading―equities, futures, bonds, or...

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Tips & Strategies

Understanding CME Bitcoin and Micro Bitcoin Futures Contract Specifications

In addition to the crypto-cash markets, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers two distinct Bitcoin futures products: full-sized Bitcoin and...

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Crude Oil

Top Crude Oil Day Trading Indicators for Your Market Strategy

The global energy complex is a vast network that’s worth billions in daily trade. Within this asset class, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is...

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