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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Popularized by legendary futures trader George Lane, the stochastic oscillator (commonly called stochastics) is a timing indicator widely used by futures traders to indicate overbought or oversold positions. Stochastics compares closing price to price range over a specified time period. The driving principle can be summarized as follows: (more…)
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Futures traders come in all flavors but it’s basically a Neapolitan world. You can be a scalper, swing trader or a combination trader. Mindset and methodology generally determine in which sector of the futures trading world you’ll thrive.
Scalpers. Scalpers seek immediate gratification. They look for short-term market movements seeking to ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Futures contracts are complex financial instruments and trading them demands constant daily, even hourly, monitoring. When you trade futures, there are myriad shifting variables that must be monitored continuously. Trading futures is about minimizing risk and maximizing profits. Profits are often made on small price points in an interval of ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
We’ve spend some time lately talking about commodities. Anyone who trades futures on the commodity markets ought to know a considerable amount about what they’re trading. But commodities are not futures.
Commodities are a class of assets that includes energy, metals, agricultural products, natural gas and oil, and other natural resources. ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
In recent posts, we’ve been reviewing essential charting basics for futures traders. Futures traders must have the ability to make decisions quickly. Effective charts provide the futures trader with the information — the trading signals — he needs to make those decisions. It is important for futures traders to be ...
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