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Tips & Strategies

Understanding Political Risk: Why Futures Traders Should Care About Election Outcomes

For futures traders, political risk is more than just a buzzword—it’s a critical factor that can drive market volatility, shift asset prices, and...

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Tips & Strategies

Trading Futures During Election Season: Strategies for New Traders

Navigating the futures market during a U.S. presidential election year can be tricky, especially for new traders. Election seasons tend to spark...

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Tips & Strategies

The Best Commodity Trading Hours: Timing Is Everything

From cattle to copper , commodity futures provide market participants a variety of unique options. The diversity of these offerings allow active...

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The Origin and Evolution of the Commodity Futures Market: Part I

The 1983, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd’s film, “Trading Places”, is a hilarious account of the ups and downs of the commodity futures market....

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Futures Markets

Energy Futures: A Look at the Crude Oil & Natural Gas Trade

The global energy futures marketplace facilitates the trade of a diverse array of participants. No matter if a producer is hedging systemic...

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Bearish

The Breakdown of Bull and Bear Spreads

When it comes right down to it, there are two perspectives that a trader can have on a market: bullish or bearish. If you’re bullish, then you expect...

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Tips & Strategies

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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Tips & Strategies

Manage Your Currency Risk With A Robust Forex Hedging Strategy

For investors and producers who participate in the global markets, currency risk is a very real consideration. Currency risk, also known as...

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Tips & Strategies

What Is Deviation in Forex, and How Do You Apply It to Your Trading Strategy?

In terms of capitalization, the world’s largest market is the foreign exchange marketplace, or “forex.” With more than $5 trillion in daily traded...

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Tips & Strategies

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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