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

Buying Options

When Should You Buy an Option to Make a Profit

Options are powerful tools for generating income, hedging risk, and speculating on future market behavior. However, no matter your strategy or...

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Futures 101

Selecting the Best Futures Trading Charts for Your Strategy

In the contemporary marketplace, technical analysis is king. The study of price action itself is the backbone of many trading strategies and the...

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Futures Trading

5 Reasons The Futures Market Is The Choice Of Professional Traders

The futures market is a common destination for traders who aim to make a living at their craft. Whether it’s through the currency, equity, debt, or...

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Tips & Strategies

Integrating Bollinger Bands Into Your Trading Strategy

Developed by John Bollinger in the early 1980s, Bollinger Bands (BBs) are a technical trading tool traders use to measure pricing volatility. Vast...

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Tips & Strategies

How to Find the Best Day Trading Platform

At its core, successful online trading is the application of a winning strategy within a robust technological infrastructure. Let’s take a closer...

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Stocks

How to Transition from the Stock Market to the Commodity Market

The rise of zero-commission online equities brokerage outlets has attracted thousands of active traders to the marketplace. These services promote...

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Tips & Strategies

The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Trading Coffee Futures

The commodity futures markets are diverse, filled with countless opportunities and possibilities. From silver to soybeans, there is truly a product...

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Futures Trading

The One Thing That Stops People From Becoming a Futures Trader

Perhaps the most influential four-letter word in the English language is fear. Fear is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “an unpleasant emotion...

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Futures Trading

Futures Trading Strategies: Price Discovery

If you have ever bought a house or bartered for a loaf of bread at a farmer’s market, then you have participated in the process of price discovery....

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What Are CME Event-Based Contracts?

Since its inception, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has been an innovator in the trade of financial derivatives. From its lineup of E-mini...

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