Posts Tagged ‘Futures Trading System’

Trading Strategy Design: Choose trading Time Frame

After making the decision on what type of market you will trade as I talked about in previous article, you now come to the making decision as what time frame you will trade. This decision is also a important one when you are designing a trading strategy. Firstly, you have to decide decide whether you [...]

Trading Strategy Design: Pick the Market Type

In designing a trading strategy, we will start with the big picture and dig deeper into more detailed decisions of the strategy in making decision. In the beginning, we will assess what type of market we want to trade and what kind of trader we want to be. Then, we will end up with how [...]

A Bit More on Expectations in Trading

The expectations is one of the aspects traders should take into their consideration when trading. I have mentioned to expectations many in many of my articles. In this article, we will dig a bit deeper in order to paint clearer picture in this topic. The question “How much do you expect to earn on each [...]

The Psychological Keys of Trading

There are many experts who teach the psychology of trading. Also, there have been many books written trying to teach the discipline needed for trading. Although the psychology is a important key for trading, you do not need to spend your money and your effort attending seminars to learn it. This article intends to provide [...]

The Trading Secrets

Have you ever heard that “the best place to hide a secret is where everyone can see it”? Why? It is because if everyone can see secret, then they do not think it is a secret. This is also true of the trading secrets. You will see, in the following, that you all know what [...]

Channel Trading Systems : Keltner Channel and Bollinger Bands

There are a number of channel trading systems commercially and non-commercially available. Some have shown good profits and are based on exact mathematical rules. Others involve some judgment in trading and cannot be programmed. In this articles, we will get to know two of channel trading systems, Keltner Channel and Bollinger Bands

Why Automated Trading Systems Never Work?

As a trader, I am quite sure that you have heard about automated trading systems. They usually come with big claims of profits in just few clicks to set them up. Have you ever wonder (if you have not been using any) that if they work or not? In this article, I am going to [...]

Identify Buying Conditions

In my earlier articles, we have learnt indicators, chart patterns, money management and other pieces of successful trading. In this article, let us review those pieces and puzzle them together in order to find conditions we prefer for entering a trade. Although we talk about conditions for buying or buy triggers in this article, you [...]

Short Selling Strategy

Before go to the strategies, please allow me reviewing what short selling means. When you buy stock, it implies you believe that the stock’s price is going to rise. Conversely, when you go short it implies that you are anticipating a decrease in stock’s price. In futures, commodities or forex, you are able to choose [...]

Scalping the Market

Scalping is a well-known style of trading for many years especially among day traders. Scalping is a trading strategy when traders enter and exit a trade extremely quick for relatively small moves. Hence, profits for each trade will be small. Simple stated, scalping is attempts to trade securities (usually future contract or forex) for only [...]