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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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Futures 101

Trading Functionality: Micro E-mini Futures vs. ETFs and MES ETF Holdings

If you’ve ever spent the morning tuned into CNBC, then chances are you have heard of the S&P 500. However, you may have missed emerging economy...

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Tips & Strategies

Understanding Winter Seasonality of Heating Oil Futures Prices

On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), energies play a pivotal role in daily trade. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an institutional hedger or...

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Crude Oil

Customize Your Energy Market Exposure with CME Micro WTI Crude Oil Futures Quotes

CME WTI crude oil futures are some of the most popular derivatives contracts in the world, featuring consistently robust traded volumes and order...

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Tips & Strategies

What Are the Best Times to Capitalize on E-mini S&P 500 Price Action?

In the markets, timing is everything. Successfully trading U.S. equity index futures is no different―understanding when to trade and when not to is...

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Tips & Strategies

Top Tips for Building a Powerful Silver Futures Price Chart

CME silver futures (SI) give active traders a vast array of strategic options. No matter whether your horizon is intraday, day, or swing, buying and...

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Technical Analysis

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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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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Trading Strategy

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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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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