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Your source for futures tips, trends, and insights to optimize your trading strategy.

Making Money with Stock Options

Are you interested in making money with stock options? If so, you’re not alone. Traders from around the globe look to stock options to generate cash...

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What Is a Zero-Commission Online Stockbroker?

The world’s equities markets are deep and diverse, each filled with countless opportunities. Among these venues is the leader of the pack, the U.S....

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Tips & Strategies

Trading Corn Futures: What You Need to Know

Agriculture futures offer market participants a vast array of hedging and speculative possibilities. Whether you’re trading Chicago Mercantile...

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When to Use Short vs. Long Futures Commodity Contracts

A critical decision process when dealing in commodity futures contracts is knowing when to go short and when to go long. In the live futures markets,...

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Futures 101

What's Your Margin to Equity Ratio?

The success of your futures trading strategy relies on how accurately you can calculate risk and how skillfully you use your leverage.

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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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Futures 101

5 Technical Trading Rules Explained

The modern marketplace is a dynamic, ever-changing environment. Traders practicing fundamental and technical analysis meet every business day with a...

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Stocks vs. Futures

Why Trade Futures vs. Stocks?

Stocks, forex pairs, cryptocurrencies, and futures contracts provide active traders countless opportunities. Given the diversity of alternatives, one...

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Ag Marketing

3 Primary Market Drivers of Cattle Futures Prices

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers a variety of agricultural futures contracts for public trade. From grains to livestock, hedgers and...

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