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John Murphy Videos
Hope everyone had a great weekend. I wanted to share something with you that is very exciting! This weekend I went and met with John Murphy, world renowned technical analyst and former CNBC Analyst. I had my video camera with me and I took 3 short videos of John Murphy talking about technical ...
FuturesPros Analysis Jan 12, 2010
Free webinar on FuturesPros - Futures Trading 101Expert: Scott HoffmanWhen: Wed, Jan 13, 2010, 16:00 GMTRegister for this Live Web Event and watch 23-year futures market veteran Scott Hoffman trade the futures markets using his time-tested swing trading methods!Using current markets and trades, S...
FuturesPros Analysis Jan 11, 2010
Free webinar on FuturesPros - Futures Trading 101Expert: Scott HoffmanWhen: Wed, Jan 13, 2010, 16:00 GMTRegister for this Live Web Event and watch 23-year futures market veteran Scott Hoffman trade the futures markets using his time-tested swing trading methods!Using current markets and trades, S...
Futurespros Analysis Jan 8, 2010
Free webinar on FuturesPros - Futures Trading 101Expert: Scott HoffmanWhen: Wed, Jan 13, 2010, 16:00 GMTRegister for this Live Web Event and watch 23-year futures market veteran Scott Hoffman trade the futures markets using his time-tested swing trading methods!Using current markets and trades, S...
How to Trade the Crush Spread
One offshoot from the extreme volatility that came with the GFC is that many private traders are now looking beyond the simple strategies such as buying shares. While all traders are still looking for healthy returns there is also a greater awareness of risk. Trading in futures and FX have been p...
FAQ: How much should you trade?
An important consideration in any trading strategy is how many contracts to trade or how much money to allocate to a particular trade. This article answers this very question. There are two parts to this question: How much capital should you commit? How many contracts should you trade? 1. Capital...
FAQ: What is a Margin?
Many of those new to trading will have difficultly understanding the concept of a margin. This short article puts things in perspecitive. When you hire a car, you pay a deposit. When you take out a home loan, it is normally secured by a mortgage. Why do you have to do this? It is because there is...
A Quant Approach to Money and Risk Management
Here is an article that looks at the concept of contract allocation and active portfolio management from the point of view of a high frequency trading desk (prop desk). It’s a subject that is taking on greater significance among hedge funds and alternative asset managers. There are two main parts...
Coffee Futures Outlook and Trading Strategies
With a more bullish fundamental setup for next year and a movement by fund traders and investors to own commodities and shy away from owning the US dollar, the coffee market appears poised to attract significant new buying interest in the months ahead. Open interest for coffee declined 18.4% duri...
How to Use Pivot Points in Intraday Trading
Introduction While around for many decades, pivot points have grown in popularity since the 90’s with what has been an increasing focus on intraday trading. Pivots are derived from a simple calculation based only on the previous period’s data and are designed to provide traders with potential sup...
Trader’s Toolbar
Here is an interesting tool I have been using in my browser. It’s a custom made toolbar I have set up with various links to market news, podcasts and other handy things. It’s really easy to set up and customise with your own features. Best of all, it’s free to use. The one I have designed looks l...
Wheat Strategies
The wheat market has been a featured mover to the upside of late. Traders who have concentrated on the genuinely bearish world and US supply fundamentals are licking their wounds and wondering why the rally is still going strong. The reasons for this are simple. For starters, trend-following fund...
EUR/USD Outlook
The Euro is not normally a market covered in this website but I was asked about it, so thought I would write a little something. That said, the US Dollar still has a strong impact on markets such as Oil, Gold, Eurodollars and other markets we normally look at, so there is some relevance. THE TECH...
Silver Trading Strategies
With the US Federal Reserve backed into a corner by a mountain of toxic assets and soaring US deficit spending, the easy way out is to invite, foster and perhaps even beg for inflation. With the world currency markets, foreign central bankers and even US politicians seemingly willing to invite, f...
Some Turning Points Are Just So Logical
Have you ever looked back on a turning point in the market and thought “ah that was logical. If only we thought of that at the time”? In fact you could probably look back on almost all turning points and say the same thing. I agree with the view that markets frequently move from efficiency to ine...
