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Investment is a game of money of securing future money by taking a risk today. Trading therefore comes with a list of rules to play by. Commodity trading in particular offers tremendous potential for becoming a completely different asset class.

However, before investing in any kind of commodity, you must do an in depth research and also ask your broker as many questions as possible. Through this category archive we provide you as much information and valuable insights into the world of commodity trading.

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We’ve got the information that you might need at every step of commodity trading, and you’ll find it all right here in the commodity trading section of our blog. Read up, and read on to get equipped!

The Mid-Term Election: Do Markets like Uncertainty + Trading Levels 11.09.2022

Posted on November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 by Ilan

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“The Mid-Term Election: Do Markets like Uncertainty?”

By John Thorpe, Senior Broker

The simple answer is: No. Clearly, markets need certainty to thrive. Volatility heats up when monetary and fiscal policy uncertainty peak. A National election is an opportunity for the equity markets to react to potential outcomes before, during, and after the election. Behaving just as markets do prior to a FED rate announcement. Market reactions have been historically varied during midterm elections. Currently, several outlets are reporting the least likely election outcome is for Democrats to retain control of the National Government levers. Conversely, the same outlets are calling for a divided government, and will most likely be the outcome of today’s voting. One party controls the House of Representatives and the other controls the Senate. An outcome other than this will roil the markets. A word of caution to not over extend/over-leverage as the results come in after the first polls close on the East coast. Reduce position size if you are trading and be vigilant. “Survive to Trae Another Day”!

Plan your trade and trade your plan.

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NFP Report Tomorrow + Trading Levels for 11.04.2022

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Ilan

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NFP Tomorrow

The next big scheduled event: this Friday’s monthly Non-farm payrolls report from the U.S. Labor Department.

If you’re a futures trader and your markets of choice to trade include stock indexes (S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Russell 2000, etc.), or treasuries (30-yr. T-bonds, 2-, 5-, 10-yr. T-notes), currencies, even metals and energies, you know the importance this report. It’s widely considered one of the most important and influential measures of the U.S. economy.

To convey its findings, the Labor Dept.’s Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys about 141,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 486,000 individual work sites (the report excludes farm workers, private and domestic household employees and non-profit organization employees). The report also includes other detailed employment data including the overall unemployment rate – as a percentage of the total labor force that is unemployed but actively seeking work – wages, wage growth and average workday hours. The report is released at 7:30 A.M., Central Time.

Please BE AWARE on how this report affects liquidity, stops, volatility and more.

Please review the information HERE.

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for 11-04-2022

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Options vs. Futures…+ Trading Levels for 11.03.2022

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Ilan

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Options on Futures OR Outright Futures?

By John Thorpe, Senior Broker

Trading futures Options may be more suitable for your account’s well being when you are right about the direction of the asset, but incorrect about the timing of the move. Through options, you are literally buying time and value if they are in the money at expiration.

What is an option?

An option on a futures contract is the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying futures contract at a predetermined price on or before a given date in the future.

Option Benefits

Options can be used like insurance policies to limit losses on a futures contract.
They can also be used for speculative purposes, whether you are selling options to receive premium income or using options to establish a position in a particular commodity, index or interest rate.
As hedging instruments, options can produce offsetting gains in the face of adverse price changes in the cash market.
Options permit you to efficiently deploy capital, in the form of option premium. In this case, you can participate in the price movements of the underlying asset, without having to buy the asset outright.

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“Introduction to Options”

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Introduction to Options

As always, plan your trade and trade your plan. Please contact your broker or Cannon Trading with any questions.

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for 11-03-2022

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Random Thoughts Going Through a Trader’s Mind…. + Trading Levels 11.01.2022

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Ilan

Today I wanted to share a few tidbits/ pointers that were going through my mind as the trading day progressed:

Learn to forgive yourself….stop beating yourself up for mistakes and “could have, should have, would have”….it will only create frustration and frustration = erratic trading.
Trading is not a perfect science, at times you can do everything right and still lose.
Learn to relax, physically and mentally while trading. I think a relaxed trader is 2 s better than a stressed trader.
It’s ok to reduce trading size if it helps making you a more relaxed trader.
The sooner in the day you recognize what type of trading day is unfolding, better chances you will have to use the appropriate strategies. Example, trending days require different trading methods than choppy days. Take a look at today’s trading session versus Friday for example.
If you are a short term trader, learn to look at range bar and volume charts RATHER than only TIME charts. Range bars and volume charts will do 2 things to help you in my opinion: when the market moves fast, you will get your clues faster ( think about how many big moves you have seen/ missed waiting for a 15 minutes bar to complete….) and when the market moves slow, you will not just get a “signal” simply because 15 minutes bar closed and study outputs have changes. More on that in this video.

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iSystems – Let the ALGOs do the heavy lifting + Trading Levels 10.28.2022

Posted on October 27, 2022 by Ilan

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Futures Trading Levels

for 10-28-2022

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Pay Attention to the Road Signs While Trading + Trading Levels 10.27.2022

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Ilan

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Pay Attention to the Road Signs…..

by Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker

Please be aware of the potential for the market you’re trading to react suddenly and forcefully in terms of price change. The most common catalyst is one typically staring right at you on your calendar of government and private reports. “Core” economic reports likely take center stage for stock indexes and treasuries. Currently that list includes measurements on the U.S. employment rate, inflation (CPI, PPI) business and consumer confidence and the like. Markets closely tied to the global economy like crude oil and its products, precious metals (gold & silver), industrial metals (copper, platinum) and currencies also react to U.S. reports. The U.S. is well on through its grain harvesting season when regional yields are being closely monitored and compiled to produce the totals that will be combined with the rest of the world’s production. At the same time, important southern hemisphere crops – particularly in South America – are just developing and estimates on their contribution to the world’s grain demands are being watched by the “big three” futures contracts on the CBOT: corn, wheat and soybeans.

Last but not least, earnings…..take a look at what happened yesterday on the NQ and MNQ right at the close of the cash market in stocks ( below is a 10 seconds chart – yes, TEN SECONDS…):

Please register for QT Market Center – Price Counts Forecasting & Professional Trading Tools on Nov 9, 2022 11:01 AM PST at:

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• Proprietary Price Counts Price Forecasting Tool

• Realtime Agricultural/Livestock/Ethanol-Energy News, Weather, Audio

• Daily Chart of the Day Subscription with Price Counts Price Forecasting Levels Included

• Realtime Live Streaming Agricultural & World Weather Audio Market Commentary Updates (accessible from Desktop, Tablet & Smartphone when out in the field)

• Access Current and 11+ years of Archived USDA Reports,

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Futures Trading Levels

for 10-27-2022

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WYNTK Before Trading Tomorrow, Sept. 22nd 2022 Futures Trading Levels

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Ilan

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Bullet Points: Hot off the FOMC Meeting

By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker

Financials: for the third time in as many Federal Open Market Committee meetings, the twelve voting members unanimously approved a 0.75% rate increase for the benchmark federal funds rate – the overnight rate on lending between banks. With this the fifth consecutive rate increase from near 0% in March and the steepest rise since the 1980’s, not since 2008 has the fed. funds rate been set to this level. With two more FOMC meetings scheduled for the remainder of the year, the full 19-member committee signaled fed. funds are projected to continue their upward trajectory with 4.25% to 4.50% the expected target by year’s end.

The Federal Reserve also announced a program of reducing stimulus by shrinking its $8.8 trillion asset portfolio through attrition. As debt securities mature – to the tune of ±$95 billion a month – the Fed reduces its holdings by up to $95 billion a month.

Of course, all this is the Federal Reserve’s effort to quell inflation, the annual forecast of which officials revised up for the third time to 4.5% (core rate). “Inflation is running too hot. You don’t need to know much more than that,” said FOMC chairman Jerome Powell in his post-announcement news conference.

As always, plan your trade and trade your plan. Please contact your broker or Cannon Trading with any questions.

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09-22-2022

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Order Flow, Buy & Sell Zones, & Support and Resistance Levels 9.24.2021

Posted on September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 by Jenny Collins

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Yesterday we hosted a very interesting webinar with Bookmap about order flow, buy and sell zones, liquidity of large orders and MUCH MORE.

On a personal level I really enjoyed the information as I am the type of guy who has been looking at indicators/ volume charts, range bar charts and probably many of the things that many of futures traders are used to. The data and information shared yesterday during live market hours with forward thinking analysis was very interesting to me and I will do more homework on the topic.

If you did not attend the webinar and would like to see a recording, CLICK HERE.

Good Trading

Futures Trading Levels

9-24-2021

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VIX Stock Index Trading Signals & Support and Resistance Levels 7.22.2021

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Ilan

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VIX Stock Index Trading Signals

by Gabe Velazquez of www.TransparentTradingSolutions.com. For free trial to the room and more information, contact your broker.

Over the last several months, two of the major stock averages (the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100) have been on a relentless upward trajectory. This has occurred as the VIX (S&P 500 Volatility Index) has remained elevated relative to its historical levels. In past bull markets, the VIX (which many refer to as the fear gauge) has traded in the low teens and even dropped to single digit readings during strong advances in the stock market. So why is this time different? More importantly, can we use the VIX to increase our odds of timing long and short entries in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures? I believe the answer is yes.

First, A quick definition of the VIX: It is an index that measures the premium of at-the-money Calls and Puts on the Cash S&P 500 going out one month in duration. Some market participants utilize options (because of their leverage component) to hedge long only portfolios. For that reason, when the stocks come under pressure, the demand for this protection increases and thus premiums (the cost to buy options) increases. Simply, there is an inverse correlation between the VIX index and stocks. As stocks drop, the VIX will rise and vice-versa.

Now that we have a better understanding of how the VIX works, let’s look at a 4 hour chart going back 2 months. In it, we can see that it has formed a clearly defined range between 15 on the lower band and 21 on the high extremity. If you look at a chart of the S&P 500 futures you will notice that on every corrective (drop) in this index over the last 2 months, the VIX has rallied up to 21. Additionally, note that when the VIX fails to move above this level, the ES (S&P 500 futures) stops falling and usually finds buyers. Conversely, when stocks advance, and the VIX stays above 15, stocks generally pause or struggle to have any meaningful move higher.

Of course, this range will not persist indefinitely, as these patterns never do. However, I believe we can glean useful information from this environment. Can we surmise that a break above the recent range in the VIX implies more selling (bearish) implications? Separately, a break below the key 15 level may insinuate that institutional investors feel more comfortable lifting their hedges, thus leaving more room for stocks to rally in the short-term.

We can never rely on one single indicator to buy or sell, but as traders, we always need to seek an edge. Perhaps this can give you a different way to look at the markets. More importantly, by monitoring the VIX relative to what options traders and institutions are doing to hedge their portfolios, my hope is that it can help you make better trading decisions.

Until next time, I hope everyone has a great trading week.

Gabe

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Futures Trading Levels

7-22-2021

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“The Mid-Term Election: Do Markets like Uncertainty?”

Please register for QT Market Center – Price Counts Forecasting & Professional Trading Tools on Nov 9, 2022 11:01 AM PST at:

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Today I wanted to share a few tidbits/ pointers that were going through my mind as the trading day progressed:

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