Trading commodity futures can make you a lot of money, but it is also a very risky business, so you should only do it if you have a lot of money you can afford to lose.
Commodity futures trading is a high-risk, high-reward venture that...
I owed $30,000 in debt three years ago. I was making $35,000/year. Today, October 2006, I have no more debt. I got out of all that debt by changing how I thought about it, making hard decisions, and doing "whatever it took." I don't work in the...
The roots of today's market go back to the agricultural markets of the 1800s, when farmers started selling contracts to deliver their crops at a later date. This was done to predict what the market would need and keep supply and demand stable...
Years ago, I heard Mike Tyson say this, and it stuck with me because it has so many connections to trading with focus, discipline, and repetition.
Through repetition, we try to get both new and experienced traders to believe in the system....
Any trading plan will have losing trades, and it's how you handle them and how well you do your main job of keeping your capital safe that will determine how well you do in the long run.
You have to expect losses, plan for them, welcome...
Risk Management
Most futures traders make the mistake of not having a systematic way to deal with risk. The high leverage and high volatility of the futures markets tend to have a big effect on the emotions of traders. This emotional...
Swing traders and day traders are the most common types of traders who trade for a living. If you want to trade commodities every day, you need a trading system that you can trust and that always gives you good results. Even though you have a...
In the late 1950s, George Lane came up with the idea for the stochastic oscillator. It is an oscillator that compares the close of the current day to the high and low ranges over a certain number of days. This shows how a commodity is moving....
The best way to learn how to trade on the commodity markets is to learn from a trader who is already good at it. But even if you found the right people and they taught you everything they know, that doesn't mean you'll make as much money as they...
This third article by Absolute Futures will show how many bushels of corn are needed to make just one gallon of ethanol. This will show anyone who trades in corn how the production of ethanol affects the total amount of corn that can be used to...