Here are four of the best trading books about the futures market. Instead of giving a long list I have kept this one short with a focus on the only ones you need to both go through the learning curve and also implement trading strategies. A Trader’s First Book on Commodities: Everything you need to know about futures and options trading before placing a trade by Carley …
What are Dow futures? Dow futures are contracts that trade with commodities on futures exchanges. Dow futures contracts have set prices along with dates for delivery to buyers. They are tools with leverage that give traders and investors the right to buy or sell depending on whether they are long of short the Dow Jones …
Contango is a situation in the price action of the commodities market where the futures forward price of a commodity is more than the spot price expected of the futures contract at its maturity and delivery date. The opposite condition in the futures market to contango is called backwardation. The commodity market is in backwardation …
A zero sum game is a situation where one person’s gain is equal to another person’s loss, so the total money inside the game for the players and participants is always a net change of zero as a whole unless money is removed or added to the game. The financial contract markets for futures and …
This is a Guest Post by David Bergstrom, he is on twitter @dburgh he is the guy behind the Build Alpha software. He has spent many years researching, building, testing, and implementing market making and trading strategies for a high frequency trading firm, a handful of CTAs, individual clients, registered money managers, and even aspiring retail traders. His website …
Ever have that day when you were a new trader and you were 100% sure about a trade. You just could not lose, the stock was a real buy it had already fallen a great deal and it could not possibly fall any farther. So you waited and then plunged in, you couldn’t …
Two of the biggest obstacles in trading is managing risk and using a winning method. However, even if you control your risk on every trade and have a methodology that is a winner in the long term you can still …
The pain of losing is something that many traders can not bear. When you get into 10 or 15 straight losses then the lack of risk management will knock a trader out of the game. Even if you have risk management in place many times the mental pain and anguish …
How do I make money in trading? I seek to profit from market trends. I am a short term trend trader. I seek to be long or short a stock or ETF that is in a trend and has the potential to trend for several days or weeks. I will trade anything that is …
For anyone interested in trading the currency markets I believe this is the perfect book as a starting place. Carley Garner has created the perfect book for anyone interested in getting started in currency trading. Whether you are an experienced trader of stocks or options looking to diversify markets you …
