Futures trading
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Trading Journaling: Unlock Insights & Improve Your Trading Performance
Although we live in an interconnected world, trading can often be an isolating endeavor. A trader’s need to process the nonstop streams of data and information the markets generate can create an inner
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Decoding Wall Street Animal Metaphors: A Guide to Stock Market Terminology
Someone turning on the financial news for the very first time might get the impression that Wall Street isn’t a market but rather an animal parade: bulls and bears, hawks and doves, dead cats and doom
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Understanding Stock Order Types: A Guide for Investors & Traders
What’s in a stock order? Just about everything. Think of it as your gateway from idea to action. It’s where the rubber meets the road, where you pull the proverbial trigger, where a market opportunity
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Mastering Advanced Stock Order Types for Precise Trading
If you’re an experienced trader, one whose strategies have grown toward the more sophisticated side of things, then your trade entries and exits might require a bit of extra nuance. In many cases, bas
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Navigating the Trading Lifecycle: From Beginner to Experienced Trader
What do you remember about your first trade? If you’re like many traders and investors, you can recall quite a few details about that first plunge. What made you decide to make that trade at that time
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Navigating Market Volatility: Understanding and Managing Witching Days
There’re plenty of things investors should probably have a healthy sense of fear about, but arguably, “witching” is no longer one of the biggies.All the risk that once hit the markets on a single Frid
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Understanding VIX Options, Futures & Mini Futures: A Comprehensive Guide
When the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) was launched 20 years ago, it was aimed mainly at institutional traders and options wonks. Now it’s become the proxy for assessing stock market volatility for all
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Understanding Rolling Risk in Futures ETFs: A Trader's Guide
If you’re trading futures-based ETFs, beware of the “rolling risk.” These days, trading terms may not be as complicated as “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” But close. Like flying nannies, market
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Hedging Stock Portfolios with Futures: A Practical Guide
The idea of hedging a stock portfolio with low-cost index futures can make you feel like that anxious kid again. Something spooky and unpredictable with every trading day, right? Maybe not. Bear in mi
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Futures Options vs. Equities: Key Differences & How They Work
If you’re considering new ways to take advantage of market movement, futures options can provide your futures trading with much of the same flexibility and leverage that equity options do for your equ
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Understanding Futures Settlement: A Beginner's Guide
What exactly happens when a futures contract expires? Can you end up with a few semitrucks full of corn in your cul-de-sac at settlement? The short answer is “no,” but the explanation requires coverin
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Futures Spreads: A Risk Management Strategy for Sophisticated Traders
The leverage and flexibility of the futures markets is a magnet for some traders. But large, directional moves are also in play. That leaves the unprepared at risk of ending up on the wrong side of a
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Navigating Locked Limit Futures: A Trader's Guide
Risk Happens. So prudent traders define their loss ahead of time and use stop orders to get out when they need to, right? Maybe not. There’s one scenario in the futures market that won’t let you out a
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Forecasting the Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Decisions with Futures Markets
Editors note: Weve dusted off this article that originally ran on April 21, 2015. Its worth a rerun because its usefulness for help tracking the Federal Reserves potentially too-close-to-call interest
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Futures Trading: Understanding Basis Trading for Efficient Speculation & Hedging
Futures can be a straightforward and capital-efficient way to either speculate or hedge. You think the price of corn is going higher? Buying a /ZC corn futures contract is an easier way to lay a bet t
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Navigating Risk with Futures Spreads: A Hedging Strategy
Traders are attracted to the futures market because of its fast pace, leverage, and flexibility. Yet, those benefits also come with the risk of large, directional moves that can catch unprepared trade
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Futures Scalping Strategies: A Guide to Profiting from Small Movements
If you’re going to scalp futures—meaning, try to profit from very small movements—you want to find the times when products are moving fast so you can move in and out quickly and close positions before
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Overnight Trading: Strategies & Opportunities in Global Markets
As the sun slides below the horizon and most of the world starts to wind down, a wide variety of nocturnal creatures begin to emerge from their daytime shelters and ready themselves for a night of act
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Efficient Capital Allocation: Strategies for Smart Investing
As an investor, which of the following best sums up your views on capital? I have more capital than I need, so efficient use of it isn’t important It doesn’t grow on trees, so I like to be sm
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How Weather Impacts Commodity Markets: Corn, Oil & More
Whether the question is when to plan your family picnic or how to trade corn futures, the answer typically distills into three words: Check the weather.Weather affects nearly everyone and everything,
Futures trading
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Access Inheritance Funds Quickly: Loans Against Shared EstatesHeirs can only get an advance on an inheritance from probate assets. Due to the length of the legal process sometimes involved in inheritance, heirs may have to wait months or even years to r...
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Understanding Burial Insurance: How It Works & Why You Need ItBurial insurance is defined as a policy designed to cover or cater for your funeral expenses at the time of your death. Its benefits are smaller than that of life insurance policy, and this is expla...
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Currency Overlay: Protecting Your Investments from FX RiskCurrency overlay is an investment risk management strategy usually implemented by specialist firms that manage foreign currency exchange risk for client investors. The clients may be individual invest...
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Understanding Historic Pricing and Net Asset Value (NAV)Historic pricing is a method used to determine the net asset valueNAV (Net Asset Value)NAV (Net Asset Value) refers to the total equity of a business. While NAV can be applied to any entity, it is mos...