Is your online trading experience like mine? The first 12 – 15 years, in the business, I read every book I could lay my hands on. I attended seminars and day trading courses and bought software to help devise a personal “universal trading system”.
But what I did manage to develop was a smaller bank [...]
Perhaps among the most difficult and maybe the riskiest type of trading is option trading. Many experienced traders realize that option trading does not suit all traders. It selects its own type of people, generally the risk takers. And the trade itself requires skills and thinking unique only to people who won’t fold under extreme [...]
Your Computer Is Not a One Arm Bandit Where would we be without computers, and the technological advancements the internet offers us? Just as there is a generation getting addicted to video games, there are an alarming percentage of internet junkies. Keep in mind that online trading is becoming more and more popular too. With [...]
Day trading is the practice of buying and selling financial instruments, such as stocks, stock options, currencies, and futures contracts, within the same day such that your positions are usually closed before the end of the day.
Day trading used to be the sole realm of professional investors. In fact, many day traders work [...]
A hedge is an investment made to offset the risk incurred by entering another investment. Essentially you are setting up a bet on both sides so that one offsets the other and you can end up winning either way.
Think of it as a form of insurance.
Options are frequently used in hedging.
For example, you can speculate [...]
Day trading is the practice of buying and then selling a stock all within a single day of market activity. Day traders dabble in a number of different financial instruments, such as stocks, currencies, stock options, and futures contracts such as interest rate futures, equity index futures, and commodities futures.
It is not uncommon [...]
Day trading is the practice of buying and then selling a stock all within a single day of market activity. Day traders dabble in a number of different financial instruments, such as stocks, currencies, stock options, and futures contracts such as interest rate futures, equity index futures, and commodities futures.
It is not uncommon for a [...]
Many opportunity seekers are attracted to options trading as they have heard stories making promises of fast profits. The problem is that these traders come in thinking of nothing more than stuffing their bank accounts full of cash in a short period of time. While this scenario is achievable the odds are certainly going well [...]
Enhanced Strategies for Trending Following System Trading
Proper trade management for system based trading is vitally important. Today’s commodity markets are moving with higher levels of price volatility and risk than in the past. Within a market’s overall trend there exist many short-term correction moves or spikes in volatility that warrant close attention. The implementation [...]