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How Optimizing Your Futures Market Hours Promotes Success

How Optimizing Your Futures Market Hours Promotes Success

December 4, 2019 by Daniels Trading

For most people who are gainfully employed, longer hours typically equate to greater financial rewards. Whether the motivation is to receive overtime pay or to earn a promotion, dedication in the workplace is a precursor to financial success. However, for active futures traders, this approach isn’t always effective. Although putting adequate time into the markets… Read more.

4 Characteristics Of Powerful Futures Trading Charts

4 Characteristics Of Powerful Futures Trading Charts

December 2, 2019 by Daniels Trading

If your strategy depends on technical analysis, then designing powerful futures trading charts is the name of the game. In this post, we’ll break down four key chart characteristics that contribute to a clear, concise, and timely study of price action. 1.  User-friendly For technical traders, the pricing chart is the foundation on which they… Read more.

3 Benefits Of Futures Spread Trading

3 Benefits Of Futures Spread Trading

November 27, 2019 by Daniels Trading

Futures spread trading is a unique discipline that offers many benefits to practitioners. Featuring reduced margin requirements, extensive strategic applications, and limited exposure to systemic risk, spread trading is viewed by many traders as a premier financial strategy.

Building An Edge: Trading Live Futures With The Potential To Win

Building An Edge: Trading Live Futures With The Potential To Win

November 18, 2019 by Daniels Trading

By definition, a trading edge is an approach to the market that creates an advantage over other participants. Finding or designing such an advantage for live futures requires some work. Nonetheless, if established and applied over time, the rewards from building an edge may exceed all expectations.

Technical Strategies for Trading ES Futures in Live Time

Technical Strategies for Trading ES Futures in Live Time

October 30, 2019 by Daniels Trading

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the largest futures and options marketplace in the world. The CME facilitates the trade of nearly everything under the sun, from corn and gold to weather and real estate indices. Among its most popular offerings is the E-mini S&P (ES) 500.

5 Key Benefits Of Futures Trading In The Digital Age

5 Key Benefits Of Futures Trading In The Digital Age

October 25, 2019 by Daniels Trading

Since the dawn of the 21st century, advancing technologies have made the open outcry trading pits of decades past all but obsolete. Business in the contemporary marketplace is conducted almost exclusively digitally. There are many newfound benefits of futures trading in the digital age; below are the top five, in no particular order.

How To Optimize Your Commodity Trading Platform

How To Optimize Your Commodity Trading Platform

October 24, 2019 by Daniels Trading

In the contemporary futures marketplace, the commodity trading platform is an integral part of conducting day-to-day business. It is the trader’s gateway to the markets, a software lifeline that links participants and brokers to the exchange. Ensuring that the platform is in peak operating condition is a key part of competent trading.

Your Top Three Requirements to Trade Futures

Your Top Three Requirements to Trade Futures

October 10, 2019 by Daniels Trading

Baseball players are well-advised to take a pair of cleats, glove, and bat with them to the diamond. For the modern futures trader, the list of must-haves is a bit more extensive. Akin to the glove and bat are an internet connection and computing power ― two infrastructural requirements to trade futures. In addition to… Read more.

E-Minis: The Perfect Vehicle During Market Volatility

E-Minis: The Perfect Vehicle During Market Volatility

September 26, 2019 by Daniels Trading

Volatility can arise suddenly, destroying winning trades and shaking the markets to their core. Successfully navigating turbulent financial waters can be an epic challenge ― finding the ideal instrument to trade is a key part of excelling when the road becomes rocky.  During times of chaotic price action, the best trading vehicles are those that… Read more.

Trading 101: Understanding Futures Contracts Specifications

Trading 101: Understanding Futures Contracts Specifications

September 24, 2019 by Daniels Trading

Understanding how to read and interpret futures contracts specifications is an important part of getting started in the market. A contract’s specifications spell out its parameters in concrete terms. If you’re not familiar with a product’s specs, then you shouldn’t be trading it!

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