It’s our job to trade “Futures,” not “Histories”
by Joe Ross
Throughout the years that I’ve been trading and writing about trading, I’ve often discussed mind set —having the right frame of mind for your trading, so that you become a winner.
I’ve stated that “It is our job to trade ‘futures,’ not ‘histories,’ but in order to [...]

Rules of the Retail Trader
Retail trader = any trader who is not trading for an institution, a.k.a. YOU!
Retail traders are food for professional and institutional traders everywhere. Eager traders enter the markets in large numbers, hoping to find the “Holy Grail” of trading. They take various paths, but in the end a staggering percentage of [...]

How to Calculate New York Commodities
By Carley Garner of www.DeCarleyTrading.com
One of the most frustrating aspects of trading commodities is getting comfortable with how each contract is quoted, what the point value or multiplier of each contract is and most importantly how to calculate the profit, loss and risk of a trade. Each commodity futures contract [...]

How to Calculate Profit and Loss in Agricultural Futures
By Carley Garner of www.DeCarleyTrading.com
One of the most frustrating aspects of trading commodities is getting comfortable with how each contract is quoted, what the point value or multiplier of each contract is and most importantly how to calculate the profit, loss and risk of a trade.  Each [...]

Learning Options- Part 4
In real estate, they say that the three most important things are location, location, and location. In options, the three most important things are volatility, volatility, and volatility. Often neglected by option rookies, volatility is the cornerstone of an option professional’s trading strategy.
In its simplest form, expressed as the annualized percentage of [...]

Learning Options- Part 3
Two of the more common option strategies are horizontal spreads (identical strike prices, different expiration days) and vertical spreads (different strike prices, same expiration day). Other spread types are combinations or variations of these categories: Diagonal spreads are a mixture of horizontal and vertical spreads; butterfly spreads combine two different vertical spreads.
Selling [...]

Stock Market Day Trading
By Mike Reed
There are reasons why a day trader would prefer E-minis over stock market day trading, and vice versa. Here are a few major considerations.
The edge…
Stock market day trading can take advantage of the small and variable lag time between stocks and the futures. This can give a day trader who [...]

Day Trading the Stock Market
By Mike Reed
Every professional trader I’ve seen day trading the stock market for a living watches the SP futures charts and/or the Nasdaq futures. They do it for one specific reason and that is that Stocks lag behind the futures markets.
Stocks that track with the market indices make their moves a [...]

When “Bad Things” Happen To “Good Systems”
An article to help deal with and understand “draw-downs”
by Mike Levin

In the last issue of Futures Truth Magazine, I wrote about how to put together a portfolio of trading systems and used a discussion between Bob and Carol to illustrate my points.
This issue we will “speak with” Bob and [...]

How to build a portfolio of trading systems that really work…Part 1
…Serviced by experts that really care
By Michael Levin
In a previous article I wrote for Futures Truth last year (How to buy or lease a trading system) I went into a litany of areas to focus on when selecting a trading system to buy [...]

One way to acquire discipline in trading
By Joe Ross
“Hey Joe! When you were teaching us at our Forex office in Florida, you stressed discipline.  Our head trader stresses discipline.  What I want to know is if discipline can be acquired or is it just something you are born with? I’m having trouble finding it in [...]

Industry Risk Disclosures for Futures and Options
by Rick Thachuk
The following is content from a typical Risk Disclosure that is usually required to be read by any individual prior to the opening of a futures and options trading account. It appears here only to highlight the risks associated with trading high-leverage instruments such as futures and [...]

Fibonacci Clusters & the Power of Confluence
by: Bernard Mitchell
Leonardo Pisano, better known by his nickname Fibonacci, published Liber abaci in 1202 in which he posed the following problem:
A certain man puts a pair of rabbits in a place surrounded on all sides by a wall. How many pairs of rabbits can be produced from that [...]

Technical Tools For The Active Trader:
Techniques for Capturing Intraday Profits
By Bob Hunt: creator of the Pattern Trapper On-Line Trading
Course and editor of the Pattern Trapper Futures Trading Newsletter.
Technical analysis can be defined as the study of past price behavior in an effort to determine patterns and trends that are believed to be predictable of the [...]

Forex Income Engine

THE SECRET OF REDUCED MARGIN SPREADS
by Joe Ross
One of the best kept secrets in trading is that of reduced margin spreads.  You cannot name a trading method that provides more safety or a greater return on margin than does a reduced margin spread, while also being one of the least time-consuming ways to trade. Have [...]