This video will detail the manner in which to execute a commodity option trade through your commodities broker.
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This video will detail the manner in which to execute a futures trade through your commodities broker.
Do You Understand Option Expiration, Exercising, and Assignment? Now You Will.
It is essential to understand option expiration, exercising, and assignment as a commodity option trader. Know these principles, whether purchasing outright calls or puts, selling or “writing” option contracts, or using complex option spread strategies. Not only will you be better equipped for such events, but also having this acumen could potentially improve your trading performance.
Fibonacci Tips For E-mini Futures Trading | Part Two
Written by DeWayne Reeves of CFRN.net. Burton Schlichter is a partner and featured broker at CFRN.net. FIB TIPS AND OTHER HEAD TRIPS As traders, we are quick to put on mental shackles. Bind ourselves to a way of thinking that lives somewhere between no-sense and nonsense. No trader makes it through unscathed. We all get… Read more.
Fibonacci Tips For E-mini Futures Trading | Part One
Written by DeWayne Reeves of CFRN.net. Burton Schlichter is a partner and featured broker at CFRN.net. TRUE FIBS FOR EMINI FUTURES TRADING We addressed the topic of Fibs and Fibonacci in a previous article, “Fibonacci Made Simple.” If you are not familiar with the man or the mathematics, I do encourage casual research as Fibs… Read more.
How to Trade E-mini Price Channels
Written by DeWayne Reeves of CFRN.net. Burton Schlichter is a partner and featured broker at CFRN.net. Trading Price Channels is a dynamic yet easy to learn form of trading that relies on the markets natural tendency to trend. It is a type of technical analysis that provides ideal areas from which to buy and sell.… Read more.
Three Facts About Commodity ETFs
Commodity ETFs vs. Futures As a futures broker at Daniels Trading, I speak to investors every day about commodity futures trading. In speaking with these investors, I commonly hear that it is more convenient to trade commodity ETFs than futures. Commodity ETFs appeal to individuals who want the diversification that ETFs bring without the hassle… Read more.
The Origin and Evolution of the Commodity Futures Market: Part II
Over the course of 175 years, the city of Chicago has defied the odds and emerged as a major player in the global market. From Al Capone to the current President of The United States, from the 1893 Chicago World Fair to this past summer’s NATO convention, Chicago is a global city of past, present… Read more.
The Origin and Evolution of the Commodity Futures Market: Part I
The 1983, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd’s film, “Trading Places”, is a hilarious account of the ups and downs of the commodity futures market. Randolph Duke, Senior Partner of an established commodity brokerage firm, explains to Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) just what exactly commodities are and how they are traded: “Now, what are commodities?… Read more.
Know Your Trading Lingo: A List of Terms to Help You Speak Our Language
As you start following the futures markets, you will find that brokers, traders, and individuals in the futures/commodities industry have certain “speak”. Much like the military, where exotic terms for everything are the norm, traders have their own language that could confuse a beginner. Specific market terms are difficult to comprehend at first but are… Read more.
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