How to Figure Margin for Commodity Spreads
Don Dawson runs through what you need to know to be able to work out how much margin is needed when trading commodity spreads.
Rollover Redux
Gabe Velazquez explains the often misunderstood quarterly rollover occurrence for those wishing to trade futures contracts
A Trap for Gap Players
Don Dawson explains how fading gap trades without the knowledge of how Futures prices are settled each day could result in trading a gap that never existed.
The Difference Between Night and Day
Don Dawson looks back over 24 years of trading and takes a look at an area where some confusion seems to be regarding the terminology of the session you are trading in and that there is a difference between night and day when it comes to trading!
Decrease Risk and Increase Predictability with Spread Trading
Don Dawson discusses why spread trading is suitable for those with small accounts and looking for lower risk trading and includes examples of how this style of trading can be used
Trading Ten Year Treasury Note Futures
Sam Seiden explains why the Ten Year Treasury Note Futures is one of his favourite relatively low risk and highly liquid markets in which to trade and why it offers a good alternative to stocks.
Inter-Commodity Spreads for Futures Traders
Don Dawson gives an insight into trading of inter - commodity futures using less capital than outright futures positions and how this can reduce risk through hedging
If you can’t spot it, don’t trade it!
This week I will review one of the first skills that a new trader must learn before he can engage the markets which is the identification of low risk entries.
Helping push you closer to the ‘edge’.
Ever wonder what makes a winning trader consistent? In my opinion that consistency is due to the trader having his own "edge" over other traders. This "edge" is what each trader must find for himself.
Debit Spreads Vs Credit Spreads
In this article we will examine a specific case of a debit and a credit spread in order to point out that there is virtually very little difference between the two.