Day trading has become quite popular these days. Opening deals and closing them shortly after, and collecting the profit made, although small, may add up to over the total amount of deals you would make that day. That is the whole point of day trading – short-term buy-and-sell transactions. Futures, on the other hand, are [...]
I don’t doubt the legion of day traders who claim great success with options and stocks. But neither of these investments meets the criteria for a great day trading instrument for me. Why? The real issue in day trading stocks for me is the lack of leverage available to maximize profits. Regulation T is currently [...]
The psychology of risk in commodity trading is not that often of an issue discussed. I want to share an interview with my colleague Martin Bedick. Martin Bedick on the Psychology of Risk in Trading <img src=”http://myinvestorsplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bedick.jpg” alt=”bedick” title=”bedick” width=”150″ height=”165″ class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-886″ /> AJ: Martin, one of your main interests has been the [...]
American futures trading was established so as to have long term clients for decades rather than having the clients for months. This type of company does not only want people to trade with them in short term basis but realize the goal of having traders to be maintained on long term grounds who will feel [...]
In the world of trading there many different instruments to choose to trade. I’m going to talk about why I prefer index futures to most any other vehicle, especially stocks. I am a part time trader in my 40s, I also go to college part time and program software the rest of the time from [...]