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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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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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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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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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Trading Strategy

What Is an Inverse ETF and How Do I Make Money Selling Them?

An exchange-traded fund, or ETF, is a type of security that is traded on formal stock exchanges such as the NYSE or NASDAQ. Like mutual funds,...

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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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