Systematic Trading: Low volatility systems no guarantee to avoid “Risk of Ruin”

About twenty years ago, New Zealander Mark Sleeman, who worked as an engineer at that time, sold his house in order to start trading futures professionally. Since then, he has achieved a compounded annual return of over 14%. With all of his assets in his trading system, Sleeman’s single most concern was the “risk of [...]

Jim Wyckoff on Trading Options on Futures

A while back, I received several emails from readers wanting to know if they should short the crude oil market because of its lofty price levels. I responded that I don’t give specific trading recommendations, but I certainly do want to help my readers succeed at the difficult task of trading futures markets. Given the [...]

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 [...]

An Introduction to Developing a Futures Trading System

Futures trading is a great arena for traders that have had success with equities to graduate to when they’re ready to take on a little more risk in search of more profits. But just like stocks or forex, in order to be successful in futures trading, you need to have a plan that gives you [...]

Current Indian Stock Market Scenario for Nris in Nse & Bse Trading

The Indian Equity Markets remained subdued throughout the week with indices losing by nearly 5% over the week (June 1st week). The selling pressure from FIIs& NRIs – non resident Indians was seen in heavyweight stocks. At the same time some consolidation was also seen in some selective stocks across the bombay and national stock [...]

Forex Trading or Stock Trading? Where to Go!

Trading the forex spot market has been around for a long time. However, it is only in the last few years that it has become popular and accessible for the small independent trader. Most traders are used to mainly trading stocks and some trading futures. Most of the existing books on the subject of trading [...]

Forex Swing Trading – Swing Trade your Way to Regular Profit

The rise of online forex trading means that anyone can swing trade for short term profits, Its not only profitable, its easy to learn, good fun and that’s what trading should be. Forex swing trading online provides the ideal market for the methodology of swing trading. So why are currency markets the ideal [...]

Emini Course – Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Emini Index Futures Trader?

The index futures market has seen an increase in volume over that last few years since the introduction of the scaled down emini contracts which are offered on all three major indexes. What makes them so appealing is traders no longer need a surplus of cash available to trade the futures markets since margin requirements [...]

How To Benefit From Stock Market Volatility

Most investors shun the stock markets as soon as they start going down hill or they hold onto their stocks hoping in vain to sell the stocks when they will rise. Well you can certainly hold the stocks but then you will not have any cash to buy stocks when they are low. The [...]

Select A Good Stock Market Strategy For Good Returns

Stock market can be a good money maker if you know how to play the stock market correctly. A lot of people get into the stock market thinking they can make big money but then lose money by making some rash decisions. These decisions most often are based on gut feel and not on [...]

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