When Should You Use a Trailing Stop Loss Strategy?
Using a trailing stop loss is a great way to lock in profits or limit risk in an active market. In fact, professional futures traders frequently...
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What Can 2021 Bring for Gold Futures Today?
The first half of 2021 was a fascinating period for gold as receding political and COVID-19-related uncertainties boosted positive sentiment across...
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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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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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How Does Summer Seasonality Impact Gasoline Futures?
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers the public a variety of energy products facing the commodity and refined fuel sectors. Among these...
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Chart Patterns for Day Trading
Market traders commonly use chart patterns to identify positive-expectation trading opportunities. When used in conjunction with other indicators,...
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Politics, the Fed, and E-Mini DOW Futures
The official mandate of the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is to “promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates in...
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Learn How to Become a Scalper in Options Trading
Scalping is a short-term trading strategy in which the trader repeatedly takes small profits to secure market share. Although forex and equities...
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What Is the E-mini S&P Trading Secret?
Update – this post was written before the launch of CME’s newest product – the Micro E-Mini. Here’s a link to a Micro E-mini resources page.
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Best Futures Trading Strategies: 6 Ways to Minimize the Impact of Market Slippage
When it comes to the various hidden costs of futures trading, slippage is the undisputed king of the hill. When a market or stop-market order is...
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