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18th January 2012

How To Trade Futures

HOW TO TRADE FUTURES Wondering how to trade futures? Well here is some quick history. The modern futures market originated in the late 1800s when farmers started selling contracts to provide farming products at some time in the future. They did this in...

29th November 2011

E-Mini Trading: Do Your Stop/Loss Points Get You in Over Your Head?

There is a tendency among traders, both new and experienced, to overestimate their predictive abilities as they relate to e-mini futures contracts. Over trading and trading too many contracts are common characteristics of the hard charging e-mini trader; ...

22nd November 2011

Should You Trade Commodities and Futures?

While the stock market has plunged here in August 2011, and markets like gold and silver have soared to new heights, many investors are probably asking themselves whether they should invest in commodities and futures. For the vast majority of those people...

21st November 2011

Forex or E-Mini Trading: Which Is a Better Day Trading Vehicle?

I have no doubt that I will irritate a legion of aspiring Forex traders by writing this article. First and foremost, I should state that I am an e-mini trader though I have spent a considerable amount of time trading Forex. In theory, Forex ought to be th...

07th October 2011

What are the Differences Between Forex, Futures, and Stocks?

Trading and investing can be immensely obscure. There is so much dense jargon to be learned: pips, short, long, bullish, bearish, ask price, bid price, candlesticks, consolidation, triangle chart patterns, trends, trade limits, to only name a few. Most no...

06th October 2011

Do You Want to Try the Futures Market

An Incentive Network futures market provides a medium for the complementary activities of hedging and speculation, necessary for dampening wild fluctuations in the prices caused by gluts and shortages. What Does Incentive Network Futures Market Mean? A...

24th September 2011

Fisher Capital Management Investment: Dollar Falls a Second Day Versus Euro as Slowdown Spurs Easing

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/dollar-falls-2nd-day-versus-euro-as-slowdown-signs-spur-easing-prospects.html The dollar fell versus the euro for a second day on speculation the Federal Reserve will consider increasing monetary stimulus to cou...

23rd September 2011

Is Silver More Valuable Than Gold For Investment Purposes?

Silver has generally been observed as a lot much less valuable than gold, however it has certainly proved itself worthy of investors' interest - and demand for it as becoming a hedge against the world's monetary woes is most likely to develop. In 2011, si...

23rd September 2011

Different Ways to Exercise Commodity Trading

The commodity market is an expansive market with many types of commodity available for trading. It is a very organized exchange market where standardized and graded goods or commodities are frequently bought and sold. There are currently 48 global commodi...

19th August 2011

Cash vs Futures – The difference between cash metals and futures contract fundamentals

A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a predefined price and date. The COMEX aluminum futures contract for example is equal to 44,000 pounds or approximately $27,000 of aluminum and can be delivered in the...

17th August 2011

Buying and selling Futures on GLOBEX

A futures agreement is a safety just like a stock or a bond with some similarities and several variances. A stock offers you the right to private a small part of the company whilst a bond helps make you a loan provider to a company or the government.A fut...

16th August 2011

Predicting Interest Rates With The LIBOR 10-year Interest Rate

LIBOR, which stands for London InterBank Offered Rate, is the rate London banks charge each other for certain types of loans. Being used as a standard for worldwide bank rates, LIBOR enables banks to define interest rates for mortgages. Advantages and ...

08th August 2011

What You Can Expect Trading Futures Online

For those who have never participated in online trading, futures trading refer to the practice of agreeing to purchase or sell a commodity at a future date. The practice of commodity futures trading follows a standard procedure, nothing of which varies bu...

20th July 2011

Futures Options Trading : A Beginner’s Must Learn

Future Options Trading is starting to gain its footing among investors. This type of options in trading set a new trend that attracts investors to the market. It includes investments such as bonds, mutual funds and stocks, although options are another typ...

18th July 2011

How to Make Cash Emini Investing

This is why on-line day buying and selling is so well known. A Futures trader understands that proper day buying and selling techniques are implemented, entry is exact, this small move within a five-10 stage move can reduce chance and enhance probability ...

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