Trading futures on S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, DAX and RTS indices is very popular. For example, only in one market E-mini ES is traded from 1 to 3 million contracts during one session. No wonder that CME introduced micro-contract trading with a very low entry threshold on the wave of popularity of futures on […]
We already wrote about principles of the financial exchange. We will consider this subject in more detail today. We will speak about the stock exchange structure concept in this information article for beginners: what a stock exchange is; its functions; interesting facts and the history of the establishment of exchanges in the world; organizational structure […]
What is a margin? This term is rather frequently used in economics, commerce and trading, but it means something different in each case. That is why, in order to avoid confusion and mess, this article explains all meanings of the term margin.
From time to time we acquaint you with interesting analytical articles of foreign authors. Earlier we published a study of Jan Firich about breakouts of the initial balance and today we will discuss the meaning of round numbers in trading with currency pairs and futures. This article is based on materials of Carol Osler, a […]
“You can be a free man. You can live and work anywhere in the world, be independent from routine and not answer to anybody. This is the life of a successful trader. Many aspire to it but few succeed” (Alexander Elder)
The market profile trading becomes more and more popular among traders nowadays. The Auction Market Theory (AMT) lies in the basis of the market profile. We already discussed the market profile subject when we wrote about horizontal volumes and about how to improve trading using the market profile. Let’s continue elaboration of this subject.
Volatility… Futures… Strange and a bit intimidating words for a beginner in financial markets. But, in fact, everything is simple. We already wrote about futures for beginners in detail. Now, let’s find out what volatility is. Read in this article: about volatility in simple words; how to measure volatility; indicators; how to address volatility in […]
This is the final article of the Cluster Analysis and VSA series. We considered the following in the previous articles: Bag Holding and End of Rising market patterns; No Demand and No Supply patterns; Buying and Selling climax patterns; Shakeout and Upthrust patterns. Today’s topic is Accumulations and Distributions. Two out of four stages of […]
Market Profile is a professional instrument for analysis of trading volumes on the exchange. If you are new to this subject, we recommend you to read the article on basics of the Market Profile. More advanced information goes below. We assume that you know already what Value Area (VA), Point Of Control (POC) and Initial […]
We learnt in the first part of the article: