How To Trade Intraday Gold And Sp500

Last week was an incredible week for trading the intraday charts. With rising volume and volatility prices began to move up or down for extended periods of time allowing traders to profit from these powerful short term price swings. During times like these traders using the daily charts for their guide found the market very [...]

Options Trading in Extremely Volatile Markets

The recent stock market crisis (2008) not only rocked the financial system and the world economy but also the pockets of countless options traders all over the world. Options traders who used to profit in the years prior to this market crisis broke their bank as none of their options strategies seem to work in [...]

Introduction to Futures

I am frequently asked why a person would want to trade futures. I can think of numerous reasons. However it all boils down to hedging or speculating. For those of you who are not aware of the futures market, a futures contract is an agreement between two people. The purchaser of the contract [...]

How not to Lose your Shirt When Trading in the Futures Markets

There is an alarming number of new, and uneducated, commodity traders losing just about everything they own. Why? There are a number of reasons why a new futures trader stands back, scratches his/her head and wonders why their trading account went from thousands of dollars to almost nothing over night. What happened? There are [...]

5 Reasons to Trade Forex Instead of Stocks

While Forex trading is becoming more popular in the United States , the vast majority of investors still do not understand the massive advantages offered in the foreign currency market when compared to equities or fixed income trading. When you fully grasp the following concepts, you’ll understand why you might want to reconsider your current [...]