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Futures Trading

How-To Make Your First Futures Trade

You have an opinion on the futures market, you want to get involved, but you don’t know how or where to start. Sound familiar? If so, I have some...

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Tips & Strategies

The Advantages and Pitfalls of MACD Stock Trading

The moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is a technical indicator used to identify points of trend exhaustion. Classified as a momentum...

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Futures 101

When Is Swing Trading Futures a Good Idea?

Active futures traders implement a variety of strategies to secure market share. Among the most popular are scalping, day trading, and swing trading...

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Tips & Strategies

Avoid the “Pattern Day Trader Rule” with CME Equities Futures

A day trader is someone who repeatedly implements short-term intrasession trading strategies to secure profitability. Day traders target the world’s...

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Tips & Strategies

Is Trading Futures Superior to Trading Leveraged ETFs?

The capital markets feature a vast array of products, each designed to fulfill a certain purpose. Whether you’re interested in making long-term...

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Futures 101

What Is a Vertical Spread?

One of the ways active traders can secure bullish or bearish exposure with limited risk is by using a vertical spread. In this blog article, we’ll...

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Optimize Your Profitability by Trading the Overnight Futures Hours

Unlike Wall Street, the futures markets are open for business on a near-24/5 basis. For the active trader, these extended futures hours open the door...

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Tips & Strategies

Profitability 101: What Is Unrealized Gain & Loss in Futures?

In futures trading, traders have two ways to measure profitability: realized and unrealized gain and loss. Realized gains and losses are those that...

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Tips & Strategies

Keys to Becoming a Successful Scalp Trader

Scalping is a trading strategy designed to harvest small gains repeatedly to secure long-run profitability. Markets that feature consistent liquidity...

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Futures 101

The Top 3 Advantages of Trading Futures Options

Options on futures, or “futures options,” offer market participants an unparalleled collection of opportunities. However, their name often confuses...

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