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I started trading the CL from two years ago and still learning it. Mainly using fib, day count and MA etc.
Hope can learn and be a consistent trader. thanks.
Been reading some threads awhile back since last July on futures.io
Have been trading HSI and DAX futures, and just recently my trading mate keeps pointing back to this forum.
So I have been involved in demoing TST recently and may be attempting the combine anytime in a near date.
Wish to learn more about what goes on in futures trading as i found I have no account, so i thought i make one and get myself involved in the community and get some feedback in the process.
If there is anything you need to point out or have an opinion just let me know and thanks all for reading.
Hi I'm Yannis from Greece.
I used to trade futures with MF Global and their collapse was a shock to me.
I stopped for some years and now I'm back!
I want to start trading with "Futuresonline" and I want your opinions.
A quote from Anna Coulling about Binary Options: "In addition, you are also trading an instrument with a fixed risk, fixed reward profile which flies in the face of the mathematics of trading returns. Whilst the limited risk aspect of the binary option is very appealing, trading all the time using such an approach is doomed to failure in the longer term." She has a book out called "Binary Options Umasked" which you might want to take a look at. I haven't read it, so can't say how good it is, but I have read her VPA and Forex books, which I found pretty helpful.
I took a brief look Binary Options recently, and came to the same conclusions as Anna. A brief example: Let's say you have a win ratio of 50% and make 4 trades. You risk $100 each time, and the typical return ratio is 75% if you win. You win 2 x $75=$150 on 2 trades and lose 2 x $100=$200 on 2, so you have a net loss of $50. Let's say I trade looking for a minimum return of 4/1 - so I only enter trades if I see a set up for a minimum of 4/1. I also have a win ratio of 50%, risk $100 on each trade with my protective stop, and assume I make an average of 4/1 on my winners. I win 2 x $400(average) = $800, I lose 2 x $100 = $200, net profit $600.
Another quick example. On the night of the US elections, the markets were rising expecting a Hillary Clinton victory. At about 2am EST Donald Trump won Ohio, and the markets realised that the unexpected could happen. Fear set in, and over the next 2 hours the markets plummeted. Let's say you took out a binary option on the ES risking $100 for a 75% return at 2am, betting that the market would be down in 2 hours time. You were right, so you win $75. Another trader trades 1 short position on the ES, using a protective stop at the correct time that risks $100. The ES fell over 100 points in the next 2 hours. That trader trails the market down with their protective stop, and at some point they are stopped out at let's conservatively say 50 points. That's 50 X $50 = $2,500.
Hope this helps, but do some more research. I'm still struggling to be profitable too, but hope to get there soon with some of the great advice offered on this site, especially about discipline.
Hi gang,
I go by repete @ Stage 5,@2pete on twitter I am a futures trader, I specialize in NQ and started trading as equities trader in 1998
Blew up my account, oversizing as a day trade in QCOM when either a fmoc or a news event occurred , not even knowing what econ ,news releases were. and no idea why my csco would open higher or lower in the morning, or what futures were.
After sept 11,2001 I took a break from trading until 2009 at the bottom decided to get back involved,
I learned why my equities opened higher or lower even in pre market trading, via the futures index market of derivative,s.
All thing,s that took us to the bottom in 2009 cds, off the book derivatives, cross swaps, ect ect.
I went to chicago and attended seminars , futures trading conventions, and learned the players and how they thought and teached trading.
After going through Linda Raschke, Fari Hamzi, and ton,s of chat rooms, I ended up hearing in a webinar at Fari,s a guy name FT 71, what a name eh.
He has after 7 years has been my mentor along with his Partner Anthony Giacomin and following them from Vancar to Stage 5 trading I have found my home.
I have have a trading coach, and you know what we don't talk about is ? TRADING
This is a game about yourself, learn yourself and you will by default learn the market, Am I a successful trader?
Well I have not blown up my account yet, I and my coach believe if you can not trade a sim account as you would live, you have no business in this business.
Generate a plan, or in my case a hypothesis for your product I generate 3 or 4 each morning, and follow your plan, Take your stops, outliers even in sim account destroy accounts
I'm a Swiss student in my first year of my master of finance. Got recently interested in futures.
I've been trading for quite some time unsuccessfully with a lot of breaks since I have to study for my exams, I'm mostly interested in short term trading, a few seconds to 1-2 hours.
I'm currently looking for some reliable continuous futures data (tick or 1 minute) on EUREX and CME products in order to do some basic statistical analysis with Matlab so if someone knows where I can get the data at a relatively cheap cost, would be interesting, will be sharing the results of course (or take requests if I'm able to deliver ).
New to the forum, not new to the game. I am hoping to get a few insights from fellow scalpers on the forum.
I've been out of trading side and more on the strategic side as of the last 3 years.
That said, I traded yesterday for the first time in over 3 years. I pulled over 400$ out of the market CL,YM,NQ, mostly CL. My commissions and fees were over 300+$. Ended up with around 60 bucks profit. 70+ trades yesterday.
I've been trading Forex for a while and am now getting started on my journey into the world of Futures trading.
Really looking forward to it, learn new things, get a deeper understanding of orderflow / DOM and how to exploit it on the lower timeframes.