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Basic Facts About Futures Trading Futures markets have been described as continuous auction markets and as clearing houses for the latest information about supply and demand. They are the meeting places of buyers and sellers of an ever-expanding list of commodities that today includes agricultural products, metals, petroleum, financial instruments, foreign currencies and stock indexes...... Read more Basic Training For Futures Traders In a survey of more than 500 experienced account executives requesting their very best suggestions for successful futures trading. The following answers came up most often. 1. Follow the trends. This is probably some of the hardest advice for a trader to follow because the personality of the typical futures trader is not one of the crowd. ...... Read more Why Most Futures Traders Lose Money Many futures traders trade without a plan. They do not define specific risk and profit objectives before trading. Even if they establish a plan, they “second guess” it and don’t stick to it, particularly if the trade is a loss. After several profitable trades, many speculators become wild and unconservative. They base their trades on hunches and long shots, rather than sound fundamental and technical reasoning, or put their money into one deal that “can’t fail.”...... Read more Option Valuation The option premium - the price of an option - equals the option’s intrinsic value plus its time value.An option has intrinsic value if it would be profitable to exercise the option. Time Value - sometime called extrinsic value - reflects the amount of money that buyers are willing to pay in hope that an option will be worth exercising at or before expiration. Read more |
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FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING INVOLVES SIGNIFICANT RISK OF LOSS AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
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