The United States has been doing some form of futures trading since the earliest days of inter-state commerce. This is a quick and easy to understand history of futures and how it allowed the US to prosper and remain stable during a very unstable time. - Read More
The futures trading industry is constantly buzzing… Find out what the trading industry people we are following on twitter are talking about in the social media world simply by going to our daily report: The Futures Knowledge Daily. This easy to follow report is published just like a newspaper, and you can subscribe to be [...] - Read More
The weekly release is posted on Monday. Daily updates of the weekly release are posted Tuesday through Friday on this site. If Monday is a holiday, the weekly release will be posted on Tuesday after the holiday and the daily update will not be posted on that Tuesday. Click Here to review the report at [...] - Read More
A listing of world exchanges and their websites. - Read More
There are approximately 200 futures markets in the United States, and exchanges are constantly designing new contracts to add to the list. With all of these available markets, how does a beginning trader decide which ones to trade? - Read More
A stop order is a type of contingent order that instructs the floor broker to buy or sell if the market price moves to a certain point, that point being the stop price. Stop orders are known for their value as a risk managementtool. An open futures or options position can be protected with a stop order. If prices move unfavorably (to the stop price), then the stop order is executed and the open position is closed, thereby ending any further loss on the position. - Read More
We have put together a comprehensive list of many of the day-to-day trading terms that will help you in your understanding of the markets. - Read More
Futures traders, especially beginning traders, often open an account with unrealistic expectations of trading performance. These expectations could be formed by the sales literature for a trading program that emphasizes its profitability, by reports of success stories by top traders or by some brokers within the industry. In all cases, you are rarely made aware of the many other times when performances were considerably worse. In other words, you are a victim of selection bias. - Read More
You've been to the library and various bookstores. Maybe you've subscribed to a trading course or two and you've been watching the markets on your own for a while. You feel confident. You feel ready. You feel lucky. Time to start trading, right? - Read More
What is it? Most of you have probably heard the term “paper trading”, but what exactly is paper trading? It’s simply the process of mock trading, or tracking trades and calculating profits and losses as if you were trading with real money. You could paper trade anything but we’re going to focus on commodity futures [...] - Read More
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