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Day Trade The Futures Market
Want to learn how to trade the futures market?, I'll teach you. My name is Malcolm Robinson and the chances are you haven't heard of me before, but by the time you finish reading this page, you'll be very glad you finally did. You will learn the full story of my journey from being a miserable failure to becoming a very successful trader in my detailed course manual.
If you are already day trading, or just considering futures trading any market in the world, this could be the most rewarding few moments of research you will ever undertake because this guide book is simply dynamite. Do you want to:
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Learn how to read and anticipate the market?
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Know what really drives the futures market?
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Understand what the most fundamental skill of trading is and learn how to acquire it?
If yes then read on... No matter if you're a beginner or fully experienced futures day trader studying and putting into practise what you will learn will revolutionize your trading. After you have studied every word of this book, you'll be astonished you have survived without it.
The Market Master Trading Simulator
The Market Master is a trading simulation program that enables you to practice trading any market in any time frame. Practice trading futures contracts from LIFFE, CBOT, CME, and Eurex among other exchanges; including E-Mini S&P, E-Mini Nasdaq, FTSE 100, Dax, SP500, Bund and T-Bond futures.
This is how you can use Market Master to effectively master the financial markets in your own time with no risk of loss:
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Market Master reads market data files that can be easily created by anyone.
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Use either real-time or historical data.
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Comes complete with ready to use sample data.
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6 months of ready to use sample data for E-Mini S&P, E-Mini Nasdaq and FTSE100.
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Immediately start to practice and refining your trading skills.
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What is Futures Trading?
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Futures Trading is a form of investment which involves speculating on the price of a commodity going up or down in the future.
What is a commodity? Most commodities you see and use every day of your life:
the corn in your morning cereal which you have for breakfast,
the gold on your watch and jewellery,
the cotton that makes your clothes,
the steel which makes your motor car and the crude oil which runs it and takes you to work,
the wheat that makes the bread in your lunchtime sandwiches
the beef and potatoes you eat for lunch,
the currency you use to buy all these things...
... All these commodities (and dozens more) are traded between hundreds-of-thousands of investors, every day, all over the world. They are all trying to make a profit by buying a commodity at a low price and selling at a higher price.
Futures trading is mainly speculative 'paper' investing, i.e. it is rare for the investors to actually hold the physical commodity, just a piece of paper known as a futures contract.
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What is a Futures Contract?
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To the uninitiated, the term contract can be a little off-putting but it is mainly used because, like a contract, a futures investment has an expiration date. You don't have to hold the contract until it expires. You can cancel it anytime you like. In fact, many short-term traders only hold their contracts for a few hours - or even minutes!
The expiration dates vary between commodities, and you have to choose which contract fits your market objective.
For example, today is June 30th and you think Gold will rise in price until mid-August. The Gold contracts available are February, April, June, August, October and December. As it is the end of June and this contract has already expired, you would probably choose the August or October Gold contract.
The nearer (to expiration) contracts are usually more liquid, i.e. there are more traders trading them. Therefore, prices are more true and less likely to jump from one extreme to the other. But if you thought the price of gold would rise until September, you would choose a further-out contract (October in this case) - a September contract doesn't exist.
Neither is their a limit on the number of contracts you can trade (within reason - there must be enough buyers or sellers to trade with you.) Many larger traders/investment companies/banks, etc. may trade thousands of contracts at a time!
All futures contracts are standardised in that they all hold a specified amount and quality of a commodity. For example, a Pork Bellies futures contract (PB) holds 40,000lbs of pork bellies of a certain size; a Gold futures contract (GC) holds 100 troy ounces of 24 carat gold; and a Crude Oil futures contract holds 1000 barrels of crude oil of a certain quality.
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Who Trades Futures?
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It didn't take long for businessmen to realise the lucrative investment opportunities available in these markets. They didn't have to buy or sell the ACTUAL commodity (wheat or corn, etc.), just the paper-contract that held the commodity. As long as they exited the contract before the delivery date, the investment would be purely a paper one. This was the start of futures trading speculation and investment, and today, around 97% of futures trading is done by speculators.
There are two main types of Futures trader: 'hedgers' and 'speculators'.
A hedger is a producer of the commodity (e.g. a farmer, an oil company, a mining company) who trades a futures contract to protect himself from future price changes in his product.
For example, if a farmer thinks the price of wheat is going to fall by harvest time, he can sell a futures contract in wheat. (You can enter a trade by selling a futures contract first, and then exit the trade later by buying it.) That way, if the cash price of wheat does fall by harvest time, costing the farmer money, he will make back the cash-loss by profiting on the short-sale of the futures contract. He ‘sold’ at a high price and exited the contract by ‘buying’ at a lower price a few months later, therefore making a profit on the futures trade.
Other hedgers of futures contracts include banks, insurance companies and pension fund companies who use futures to hedge against any fluctuations in the cash price of their products at future dates.
Speculators include independent floor traders and private investors. Usually, they don’t have any connection with the cash commodity and simply try to (a) make a profit buying a futures contract they expect to rise in price or (b) sell a futures contract they expect to fall in price.
In other words, they invest in futures in the same way they might invest in stocks and shares - by buying at a low price and selling at a higher price.
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The Advantages of Trading Futures
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Trading futures contracts have several advantages over other investments:
1. Futures are highly leveraged investments. To ‘own’ a futures contract an investor only has to put up a small fraction of the value of the contract (usually around 10%) as ‘margin’. In other words, the investor can trade a much larger amount of the commodity than if he bought it outright, so if he has predicted the market movement correctly, his profits will be multiplied (ten-fold on a 10% deposit). This is an excellent return compared to buying a physical commodity like gold bars, coins or mining stocks.
The margin required to hold a futures contract is not a down payment but a form of security bond. If the market goes against the trader's position, he may lose some, all, or possibly more than the margin he has put up. But if the market goes with the trader's position, he makes a profit and he gets his margin back.
For example, say you believe gold in undervalued and you think prices will rise. You have $3000 to invest - enough to purchase:
10 ounces of gold (at $300/ounce),
or 100 shares in a mining company (priced at $30 each),
or enough margin to cover 2 futures contracts. (Each Gold futures contract holds 100 ounces of gold, which is effectively what you 'own' and are speculating with. One-hundred ounces multiplied by three-hundred dollars equals a value of $30,000 per contract. You have enough to cover two contracts and therefore speculate with $60,000 of gold!)
Two months later, gold has rocketed 20%. Your 10 ounces of gold and your company shares would now be worth $3600 - a $600 profit; 20% of $3000. But your futures contracts are now worth a staggering $72,000 - 20% up on $60,000.
Instead of a measly $600 profit, you've made a massive $12,000 profit!
2. Speculating with futures contracts is basically a paper investment. You don’t have to literally store 3 tons of gold in your garden shed, 15,000 litres of orange juice in your driveway, or have 500 live hogs running around your back garden!
The actual commodity being traded in the contract is only exchanged on the rare occasions when delivery of the contract takes place (i.e. between producers and dealers – the 'hedgers' mentioned earlier on). In the case of a speculator (such as yourself), a futures trade is purely a paper transaction and the term 'contract' is only used mainly because of the expiration date being similar to a ‘contract’.
3. An investor can make money more quickly on a futures trade. Firstly, because he is trading with around ten-times as much of the commodity secured with his margin, and secondly, because futures markets tend to move more quickly than cash markets. (Similarly, an investor can lose money more quickly if his judgement is incorrect, although losses can be minimised with Stop-Loss Orders. My trading method specialises in placing stop-loss orders to maximum effect.)
4. Futures trading markets are usually fairer than other markets (like stocks and shares) because it is harder to get ‘inside information’. The open out-cry trading pits -- lots of men in yellow jackets waving their hands in the air shouting "Buy! Buy!" or "Sell! Sell!" -- offers a very public, efficient market place. Also, any official market reports are released at the end of a trading session so everyone has a chance to take them into account before trading begins again the following day.
5. Most futures markets are very liquid, i.e. there are huge amounts of contracts traded every day. This ensures that market orders can be placed very quickly as there are always buyers and sellers of a commodity. For this reason, it is unusual for prices to suddenly jump to a completely different level, especially on the nearer contracts (those which will expire in the next few weeks or months).
6. Commission charges are small compared to other investments and are paid after the position has ended.
Commissions vary widely depending on the level of service given by the broker. Online trading commissions can be as low as $5 per side. Full service brokers who can advise on positions can be around $40-$50 per trade. Managed trading commissions, where a broker controls entering and exiting positions at his discretion, can be up to $200 per trade.
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Learn To Trade Futures - RISK Warning
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Please Read carefully. Futures and Options trading have large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the Futures and Options markets. Don't trade with money that you can't afford to lose.
This is neither solicitation nor an offer to Buy/Sell Futures or Options. The contents of this site are for general information purposes, only. Although every attempt has been made to assure accuracy, we assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Examples are provided for illustrative purposes and should not be construed as investment advice or strategy.
No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or loses similar to those discussed on this web site. Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain inherent limitations.
Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not actually been executed, the results may have under-or-over compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Malcolm Robinson, The Mastery Of Trading Ltd, Master-Futures-Trading.com, it's owners, associates, affiliates or publishers do not intend to give investment advice or to invite customers to engage in investment business through this web site.
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Risk Free guarantee
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Master Futures - take the full risk of this purchase. they are so confident that you will find this course of such great value, that they are willing to take 100% of the risk. If for whatever reason, during the first 56 days you are not satisfied, you can claim a full, no quibble, 100% refund.
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Master Futures - Testimonials
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"I bought your course... the best value of any book or course I have ever bought, it taught me a lot"
"By the way I can not begin to tell you how much help your course has been. Especially the information about the size of orders and the speed at which they get filled. Also it had never occurred to me to try trend filtering my trading signals... It really does work!"
"I enjoyed your course very much! I would be classed as a beginner. Before I received your course I was trading with a bracketed entry with some success, and some problems. So your course discussing a bracketed entry technique was especially interesting. I have read your book several times. It seems to me to be a simple, easy to understand system!"
"Hi Malcolm I was delighted with the trading course one of the best I have ever seen. My trading has been much improved and it has helped to break my bad habit of not waiting for the market to tell me what to do."
"The Market Master trading software has been a big help in my trading. Keep up the good work."
"Thank you for your words of advice you gave to me a couple of weeks ago, which have really helped me turn around my trading strategy. All I need to do now, is build up my confidence to see all my trades through!!"
"With my background in TA (technical analysis) I initially thought it would add nothing to my skills - WRONG. The course is a nuts and bolts introduction to trading in the real world, it puts it all into perspective by giving blow by blow accounts of trades. It has made me confident that I am a winner in the market".
"Within a day of reading your material and using the simulator on the FTSE index I was successfully predicting price movements and profiting. What amazed me was that after taking out a position, on most occasions I could monitor the upwards trend and see it weakening at the top as the balance shifted."
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What's Included
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How to Trade the Futures Market the Manual (this information alone, as a seminar, has sold for over $500). Everything I know and have learned to date about successful and profitable day trading of futures markets. (This is a 87 page PDF document, packed full of real trading know-how, no fluff or filler here).
The Market Master Trading Simulator: This alone has been sold for $200, cost over $12,000 to develop and has been instrumental in helping me go from a floor trader to a screen based direct access trader. (Market Master requires a Windows based PC to run).
The High/Low Trend Following Trading Strategy Video. I highlight 3 ways to use this strategy to enhance your trading profits. I have applied this strategy previously to 60 minute charts and produced over $11,000 in the E-Mini S&P and over £12,000 in the FTSE
A minimum of 6 months of intraday data for: FTSE100 Futures, E-Mini S&P500 Futures, E-Mini Nasdaq100 Futures. For use with Market Master
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Bonus Ebook Package
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To really sweeten the deal I'm also throwing in a package of trading ebooks
FREE Trading ebooks Package worth $164.70
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