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Posted by admin on August 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Off the top of oneâs head, âInvesting in the 21st Centuryâ brings to mind terms such as Online Trading, Futures & Options, Equity Research and Share Market trading among others. These investment enablers and instruments have brought their own complexities, advantages and risks. Let us consider the revolutionary phenomenon known as Online Trading. It essentially [...]
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Posted by admin on July 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Is there any meaning in trading? Does it serve a purpose? Does it produce anything of value to anyone? That’s a good question, and one that I have frequently thought about over the years. When I first began trading, a fair number of futures contracts actually ended up in a delivery — certainly more than [...]
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Posted by admin on July 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Futures trading can be used for two main purposes; Speculation and Hedging. While most retail futures traders get involved in futures trading for the purpose of leveraged speculation, it cannot be forgotten that the true purpose of futures contracts is for the purpose of hedging. Hedging using futures is technique most professional money managers use [...]
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Posted by admin on July 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
While it is true that some people are making a lot of money from futures, it is also true that others lost a substantial amount. As with any investments, trading in futures involves risks and if you are not careful but just trade blindly, you can lose all your money just as easily as earning [...]
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Posted by admin on July 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Learning to trade e-mini futures contracts profitably can be a tall order without proper training and experience. This fact is borne out by the especially high failure rates published in leading trading journals. It is estimated that more than 50% of first-time traders fail in their initial attempt at trading e-mini futures contracts. But the [...]
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Posted by admin on July 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Eminis, sometimes called emini futures, are smaller units of what some would call older futures contracts. These older futures contracts have been around for some time. The emini contracts are newer. They began being traded about 10 years ago. The “regular” futures contracts have existed for about 20 years. There are a few futures markets [...]
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Posted by admin on July 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Have you ever traded Dow Futures? Dow futures are futures contracts based on the famous Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Dow Index is a price weighted index of 30 blue chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Dow Index is widely quoted on financial channels like CNBC and Bloomberg as a barometer [...]
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Posted by admin on July 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Oldest MarketHere in the U.S. it began more than 150 years ago at the Chicago Board of Trade with the first agricultural futures contract. In 1982 options on futures was introduced, and in the 1990′s exchanges introduced electronic trading. Futures trading is now a 24 hour, seven days a week enterprise, and undoubtedly the [...]
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Posted by admin on July 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Most people know the concept of buying a stock. One must choose a company, buy the stock at a set price, wait for the stock to increase in value, and sell for a profit. Some people buy stocks for investing purposes. Some people buy and sell stocks multiple times during the day for income purposes. [...]
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Posted by admin on June 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Whether you’re new to the markets or a seasoned trader, you should be trading S&P 500 E-Mini Future.
Large Institutions and Hedge Funds trade S&P 500 Futures contracts. This way they leverage their money, not having to invest in any one company but actually able to trade all 500 at once. The S&P 500 [...]
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