27th March 2007
COFFEE futures and options are certainly filled with action. Long haul and day trading coffee can be very exhilarating. Support and resistance points can work very well. Cocoa and orange juice are best traded for the long haul. The liquidity in all three...
27th March 2007
Soybeans are king of the speculative trading "soy" complex. The complex includes soybeans, soymeal and soybean oil. Soymeal is used primarily as feed. Poultry and cattle producers use the majority of soymeal. The majority of soybean oil is used for coo...
27th March 2007
COTTON futures and options trade on the NYBOT. (The New York Board of Trade) Cotton has low to medium volume and liquidity; just enough to get by. An account margin of $1300 controls 50,000 pounds of cotton, worth about $30,000. One full point of price...
26th March 2007
Live Cattle, like corn is a great market for beginning commodity traders. The meats complex also includes Pork Bellies, Lean Hogs and Feeder Cattle. Here's some hints and kinks to get you off to a good start trading the meats!
LIVE CATTLE
Live Cat...
14th March 2007
U.S. Bonds are the king of interest rate futures and a great trading market! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.
When it comes to trading interest rate futures, there's no market like US Bonds! It's the most...
14th March 2007
Sugar trading is romantic! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.
Sugar is a great market for beginning commodity traders. Sugar futures contracts require a small margin and rarely make extreme moves. Currently,...
13th March 2007
Crude Oil is king of the petroleum futures trading market! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.
Crude oil futures contracts on the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) is a very liquid market. In the past fe...
12th March 2007
All that glitters is gold. What a great trading market! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.
Gold is a great commodity futures market for trading. As of January, 2007, $3,375 of account margin controls $61,30...
12th March 2007
Corn is a good beginner's market! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.
Corn is great market for futures and options trading. This is how many novices learn to trade commodities. The margins are low; usually ab...
12th March 2007
Most commodity futures markets will tip their hand when it's time to reverse direction. Knowing how to read its language is the challenge. It's not easy. This is important information, since this is all you really need to know! Volatility is a clue as we...
12th March 2007
Most commodity futures markets will tip their hand when it's time to reverse direction. Knowing how to read its language is the challenge. It's not easy. This is important information, since this is all you really need to know! Volatility is a clue as we...
08th March 2007
Identifying patterns that repeat in the futures market, then jumping on them, is what it's all about. These patterns can be rather complex, requiring an accumulated library of observations. The best way to do it is through your own intuition. There's no b...
08th March 2007
Identifying patterns that repeat in the futures market, then jumping on them, is what it's all about. These patterns can be rather complex, requiring an accumulated library of observations. The best way to do it is through your own intuition. There's no b...
08th March 2007
Identifying patterns that repeat in the futures market, then jumping on them, is what it's all about. These patterns can be rather complex, requiring an accumulated library of observations. The best way to do it is through your own intuition. There's no b...
06th March 2007
After twelve years of watching and day-trading the S&P 500 almost every day, I've come to some conclusions of what works and what doesn't. These methods can also be applied to other markets as well, for both long and short-term trading.
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