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As a high risk trading type, futures trading is not for someone who is faint-hearted. Though there are a number of different ways of investing in futures , it is important to stick to what you know. Treading into unknown waters is not something that you should do when dealing in futures.

From managing margins to ordering trades to doing market analysis and more if you want to, you can do that all by yourself – but you may betaking double the risk. Therefore, when trading in futures, it may be better to seek advice from a professional trader.

Professional trading experts at Cannon Trading can help you with your futures trading. We are also there to keep you updated with the latest on futures trading and market news. All the news and latest articles on futures trading are published on our site under the category Archive Futures Trading News, which you are currently browsing through. Read more and the latest here and keep updated.

Trader’s Checklist + Futures Trading Levels 5.17.2022

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Trader’s Check List:

·        Review prior day statement
·        Check for any working orders on your platforms.
·        Be aware of contract rollover dates
·        Set a daily loss limit and learn NOT to overtrade
·        Understand what reports are coming out today
·        Make sure you are not distracted
·        Calculate appropriate trading size based on current volatility and account size
·        Start with Larger Time Frame charts to get proper perspective
·        Understand what your goal is
·        Measure your success or lack of
·        Spend time furthering your trading education and exploring different methods
·        Put trading in perspective and make sure the overall psychology of trading fits you.
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-17-2022

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.17.2022

 

 

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Economic Reports, Source: 

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Weekly Newsletter #1097 When to Exit a Trade? Trading Levels for the Week and Ahead

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Cannon Futures Weekly Newsletter Issue # 1097

Dear Traders,

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Exiting a Trade might be more important than the entry….

“You Must Understand That There Is More Than One Path To The Top Of The Mountain.”- Miyamoto Musashi, A Book Of Five Rings: The Classic Guide To Strategy
Futures and futures options trading is a challenging activity. More so for those traders who look to trading as an occupation. So much thinking, contemplating, planning goes into trading – related to the markets you’re trading, the strategies that get implemented, the possible risk/reward outcomes. For someone new to trading, seeing the sum total of all the parts may be a lot to take in. Veteran traders will tell you the full picture keeps changing and can be daunting often.
When trading goes well, the trader’s energy and overall outlook is powerful, optimistic and energizing for other aspects of life. When trading goes unsuccessfully, most traders feel the pain in many ways outside of the obvious financial consequences.
Whether you’re a day trader, a position trader, a spread trader, or an option trader, some of the mental challenges and the questions to go with them are constant:
  • Where, When and how do I enter a trade?
  • How do I define risk and implement any type of risk control, like placing stop orders, or implementing some sort of option protection?
  • Where and how do I exit a trade, both in the event of a profitable trade and an unsuccessful one?
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-16-2022

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.16.2022

Weekly Levels

Weekly Support and Resistance Levels 5.16.2022 - 5.20.2022

Reports, First Notice (FN), Last trading (LT) Days for the Week:

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Date Reports/Expiration Notice Dates
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Bean Oil Outlook & Futures Trading Levels 5.13.2022

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Grains to resume uptrend? It has been a volatile sector along with the rest of the futures markets.
Soybean Futures Daily Chart

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-13-2022

 

Support and Resistance Levels 5.13.2022

 

 

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Economic Reports, Source: 

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Fine-Tune Your Risk: Tap into the Precision of a Smaller-Sized Contract

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Fine-Tune Your Risk: Tap into the Precision of a Smaller-Sized Contract

By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker

 

At a fraction of one full-sized contract, Mini and Micro futures provide flexible leverage as an alternative to large contracts. Among the available fractional futures contracts, by far the most well-known and most liquid are the E-mini stock index futures: E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq, E-mini Russell 2000 and Mini Dow Jones. With the introduction back in May ’19 of the Micro E-mini futures, there are fractional versions of the E-minis.

 

But stock index futures are not the only ones with fractional contracts. Almost every commodity sector offers futures contracts that are fractional versions of their classic full-sized contracts. They all offer opportunities to trade markets with more precise leverage and reduced margins.

 

In the energy sector, there are E-mini natural gas futures contracts at 1/4 the size of full-sized contract (1 million British Thermal Units). A one-cent move for the E-mini natural gas futures contract is equal to $25.

 

In crude oil, whose full-sized, 1,000 barrel contract is the largest energy futures contract in the world by volume, there are both E-mini crude oil (1/2 the size) and Micro crude oil (1/10 the size).

 

Mini contracts are offered in corn, wheat and soybeans. All are 1/5 the size, so a 1-cent move in each contract is equal to $10.00 compared to a 1-cent move/$50 for their mighty forerunners.

 

In metals, the renowned COMEX 100-ounce gold futures contract can be traded fractionally with a 50-ounce Mini gold and a 10-ounce Micro gold.

 

Both silver and copper offer Mini contracts that are 1/2 the leverage of their respective 5,000-ounce and 25,000-pound full-sized relatives.

 

There are Micro futures contracts with 1/10 the leverage of their full-sized bellwether currency futures for all of those listed below:

 

Euro FX

Swiss Franc

British Pound

Japanese Yen

Canadian Dollar

Australian Dollar

 

A word of caution: many of these contracts’ liquidity is concentrated in their respective front months – often right up to their Last Trading Day. Take care to check a contract’s volume/open interest before trading.

 

 

Contact your Cannon Trading broker for additional information on any of these futures contracts, including price quotation, trading hours, minimum price fluctuation, symbol code, settlement method (cash or physical), risk considerations, etc.

 

Even if you are not a client yet, you can still contact us and we are happy to help.

 

 

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-12-2022

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Economic Reports, Source: 

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Hedging Services + Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.11.2022

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Are you are Rancher, a Farmer or a processor and need to lock in Grain prices for feed or for the growing season?, Or maybe you can use assistance placing hedges to offset risk managing your herd in the Cattle or Hog markets? do you need tools for break even analysis?

 

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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-11-2022

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This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Inflation & the Markets + Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.10.2022

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Inflation & the Commodity Markets

by John Thorpe, Senior Broker
There are a number of characterizations of inflation in the business press and social media some related to the speed of inflation as in Creeping Inflation or Moderate inflation even hyper inflation and may be used as adequate adjectives, but these don’t describe what the causes of inflation are of which there can be many.
This Wednesday , CPI or the Consumer Price Index will be published at 8:30 am EDT an often quoted measure of Inflation but not the one the FRB uses to guide interest rate decisions, they choose to focus on the PCE or the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index. The Market will focus on both. If you recall last month the CPI showed the largest monthly advance in 42 years. The consensus from Econoday.com is for an 8.1 % Rate, with a much smaller incremental increase than the previous tally. Heading into that number Gold prices had been rallying for 3 successive days and experienced a 20 dollar rally continuing the move and added an additional 2 days of inertia before the peak on April 18th and subsequent sell-off , nearly a month later the Gold market seemingly is telling us that the consensus for CPI will be correct as reflected in weaker gold prices. If you watch the gold market watch the reaction to CPI on Wednesday morning. If CPI is Higher than the consensus and gold rally’s and holds those gains into the 1:30 pm EDT zone, then the recent lows in my view are in.
As for the causes of inflation, today we are in what economists call Demand – Pull inflation. This is when the aggregate demand for goods and services in an economy exceeds the aggregate supply. This concept is associated with full employment when adjusting the supply of goods and services is either not possible, or difficult to achieve in a timely manner. Always have a plan to manage the risk in your trades before you employ your strategy, Plan your trade and Trade your plan
 If you have any questions please contact your broker!
Click on chart below for LARGER IMAGE – Gold Daily Chart
Gold Futures Daily Chart

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-10-2022

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.10.2022

 

 

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Unemployment Report & Support and Resistance Levels 5.06.2022

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NFP tomorrow. The Non Farm Payrolls report in a very volatile environment we are in can be interesting to say the least….be careful out there….
Below are the contracts which are entering First Notice or Last Trading Day for the upcoming month. Be advised, for contracts that are deliverable, it is requested that all LONG positions be exited two days prior to First Notice and ALL positions be exited the day prior to Last Trading Day. If you have any questions please contact your broker!
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-06-2022

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This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Get Staying Power in Volatile Markets & Support and Resistance Levels 5.05.2022

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Basic and Effective Strategies for Trading in Volatile Market Conditions

By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker
It’s a well-known saying – attributed to John Maynard Keynes: “Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” Two conclusions you could derive from Keynes’ observation: 1.) timing any market is not practicable and 2.) using leverage in volatile markets calls for genuine caution.
We are in the midst of a remarkable display of volatility in nearly every commodity asset class and futures traders can find entering trades a formidable endeavor. The question of where to place protective stop orders becomes more of an informed guess than before these recent months.
But this should not deter traders from entering markets, because there are numerous strategies – by and large incorporating options – that can allow your trades to withstand persistent up-and-down price action.
One of the simplest and more common strategies for futures traders is the incorporation of a purchased call or put option against an associated short or long futures position. Depending on the option’s strike price and expiration date, the maximum risk to an adverse move in the market can be precisely calculated. In addition, the risk to an adverse move in the market during the option’s lifespan up to its expiration date – based on the futures contract’s price – can also be very closely calculated. At the same time, the position’s profitability can also be determined as a result of favorable market movement – over time and price.
This strategy has the important advantage of limited risk and price tolerability during adverse moves in the market that stop orders do not provide. The trade-off comes at the cost of the purchased option and its overall loss in value as a result of time decay during its lifespan as well as its loss in value incurred during a favorable market move for the futures contract.
Contact your Cannon Trading broker for additional information on this strategy and assistance in calculating a particular long option/opposing futures position to see if it relates to your trade style’s risk considerations.

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-05-2022

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Economic Reports, Source: 

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This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Gold Watch (Outlook), FOMC & Support and Resistance Levels 5.04.2022

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Gold Watch Part 3

By John Thorpe, Senior Broker
Two weeks ago I highlighted the high of the move as a turning point for the yellow metal in the short term when the market achieved a $2003.00 per ounce daily high .
However, on that day the market closed at $1982.00 a troy ounce, a $20.00 plus dollar retracement off the high , I also noted that the 1920.00 area would be a support zone and that those that intended to go long should use a retracement back to that price level as an area to go long, to risk less by employing a risk strategy underneath 1920.0 per ounce.
Kudos for those that did as not only was this important area breached to the downside on April 25th but April 29th, as the market tested this number again and could not hold this level.1920.00 proved to be a very strong area for this market as the intraday trade hit this price ceiling, failed and closed near the lows at 1896.90.
Had we closed near 1900 today we would again, be off to test the 1920.00 area this week. That was not to be. This market is falling back into the “comfort zone” of the range from the last year of 1900.00 to 1740.00. With the Fed announcing an expected 2 basis point hike this week on Wednesday at 2:00 EDT, I have a theory:
I expect this current price discounting in the gold to temporarily rally hard moments after the Fed release only to sell off at the strength in the US Dollar as a result. It will be interesting to see if my theory works or not.
This should create an opportunity ( AND RISK!!) to sell the gold for a short term , hi volume break down into the low 1800’s. with your risk management technique employed above the 1900.00 area. Inflation is here and from an investment standpoint, because equities and bonds are both weak, (not since the early 80’s have we seen this combination) cash (by way of the US Dollar) is king in the short run.
I rarely recommend using more than 30% of your margin on any single idea and recommend a risk management strategy using, either stops, Options, spreads but prefer not to use the “free hand to click to get out” approach.
Use your disciplines and you will survive to trade another day.
The following are my PERSONAL suggestions on trading during FOMC days:
 1.)  Reduce trading size
2.) Be extra picky = no trade is better than a bad trade
 3.)  Choose entry points wisely.   Look at longer time frame support and resistance for entry. Example, trader x looking to go long the mini–SP at 4325.00 with a stop at 4319.00, instead “stretch the price bands” due to volatility and place an entry order to buy at 4319.75 and place a stop $250.00 to $500.00 below in this hypothetical example (consider current volatility along with support and resistance levels).
Expect the higher volatility during, right after and during  the news conference 30 minutes after the announcement. Expect to see some “vacuum” (low volume, big zigzags) right before the number.
·    Consider using automated stops and limits attached to your entry order as the market can move very fast at times.
 Keep in mind statement comes out at 1 Pm Central time, the news conference which dissects the language comes out 30 minutes later so the volatility window stretches out.
Gold Daily Chart for your Review. Click for LARGER IMAGE
Gold Futures Daily Chart

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-04-2022

 

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 5.04.2022

 

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Economic Reports, Source: 

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This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Learning The Different Types Of Charts And Patterns & Support and Resistance Levels 5.03.2022

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Learning The Different Types Of Charts And Patterns Will Be Another Arsenal In Your Trading Tools!

Ascending Triangle Futures Trading Chart Pattern
What is an Ascending Triangle Futures Chart Pattern?
An ascending triangle is a bullish futures pattern that can indicate a breakout in the upwards direction.
How do I Recognize an Ascending Triangle Futures Chart Pattern?
An ascending triangle is formed when resistance remains flat and support rises.

Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

05-03-2022

 

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RISK DISCLOSURE: Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results. The risk of loss in futures trading can be substantial, carefully consider the inherent risks of such an investment in light of your financial condition.