8 Steps to Successful Futures Trading
Ilan Levy Mayer, Vice President of Cannon Trading, shares with you 8 of the most important concepts involved in the day trading of futures. Read the sample below and then download the rest of the booklet for free by filling out the form to the right.
Read our guide which outlines some important futures trading strategies & day trading concepts. It may be beneficial to read this guide before trading commodities on the futures market.
My name is Ilan Levy-Mayer, and I am the Vice President and Senior Futures Broker at Cannon Trading. I came up with the following personal observations after serving online traders worldwide for more than 28 years.
The following steps are guides to progress and are not necessarily in sequential order. Some of them are always required, but each futures trader is different and will relate to these stages in their own ways. While attempting to learn and progress, one must keep in mind that futures trading strategies are risky and can involve significant losses.
1. Education
Hopefully if you are already trading you have completed your initial education: contract specs, trading hours, futures brokers, platforms, the opportunities as well as the risk and need to use risk capital in futures, and so on. Understanding this information is essential to good futures trading strategies. The second type of education is ongoing: learning about trading techniques, the evolution of futures markets, different trading tools, and more.
2. Find a System
I am definitely not advising you to go on the web and subscribe to a “black box” system (using buy/sell triggers if don’t know why they are being generated). What I am advising is developing a trading technique: a general set of rules and a trading concept. As you progress, you may want to put the different rules and indicators into a computerized system, but the most important factor is to have a focus and a plan. Don’t just wake up in the morning and trade “blank.”
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