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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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Tips & Strategies

The Ins and Outs of Trading a Bear Put Spread

For many traders, options spreads are ideal ways of securing affordable market exposure while minimizing downside risk. In this article, we’ll cover...

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Futures 101

4 Characteristics Of Powerful Futures Trading Charts

If your strategy depends on technical analysis, then designing powerful futures trading charts is the name of the game. In this post, we’ll break...

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Options

How Can I Make Money Trading Options?

Over the past decade, online derivatives trading has exploded in popularity. In the first half of 2021, the Futures Industry Association (FIA)...

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Crude Oil

Are We Entering a Bull or Bear Market? A Crude Oil Futures Technical Analysis

In an August 2020 blog post, we broke down the ongoing long-term bear market for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures. At the time, the...

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Tips & Strategies

How to Calculate Systematic Risk Within Your Portfolio

For active traders and investors, systematic risk is a market driver that should never be ignored. It can come on as a surprise and wreak havoc on...

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