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Tips & Strategies

How To Optimize Your Commodity Trading Platform

In the contemporary futures marketplace, the commodity trading platform is an integral part of conducting day-to-day business. It is the trader’s...

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Tips & Strategies

How to Make Money Trading Gold

For more than 5,000 years, gold has been a mode of exchange, an artistic medium, and a store of wealth. Although the yellow metal’s primary functions...

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Tips & Strategies

Understanding CME Bitcoin and Micro Bitcoin Futures Contract Specifications

In addition to the crypto-cash markets, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers two distinct Bitcoin futures products: full-sized Bitcoin and...

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Tips & Strategies

Catching Knives: Tips for Successful Counter-Trend Trading

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, a trend is a “prevailing tendency or inclination.” As it pertains to active trading, a trend is a...

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Futures Trading

6 Do's and Don'ts for Futures Traders

The futures markets are dynamic, competitive atmospheres where opportunity and risk collide on a daily basis. Participants from around the globe...

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Futures Markets

The Differences Between Investing in the S&P 500 and Trading S&P 500 Futures

The US equities markets are the world’s benchmark for wealth and prosperity. According to the World Bank, the aggregate value of US stocks is upward...

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Crude Oil

Top Strategies for Trading Crude Oil

Crude oil is one of the world’s most heavily traded commodities. Featuring consistent market depth, robust participation, and a multitude of...

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Tips & Strategies

Top Tips for Trading Candlestick Patterns

Candlestick patterns are among the most frequently used technical tools by active futures traders. No matter the strategy―whether it is trend,...

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Tips & Strategies

How Trading Leverage Can Produce Extraordinary Gains

Futures trading is a unique discipline. There are no time clocks to punch, 401ks, or employee health insurance policies ― your success depends upon...

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Futures Trading

7 Ways To Become the MacGyver of Futures Trading - Tips and Strategies

With his genius intellect and humanitarian disposition, Angus MacGyver is the quintessential problem-solver. Whether disarming a nuclear missile...

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