Introduced in the year 1982, Index futures or stock index futures are extremely popular among trading commodities today. While trading, an index future is settled in cash on the value of a certain stock market index. One of the most traded indices is the S&P500.
These are quoted on the basis of either an underlying or a spot price for an index value. There are a number of technicalities involved, most of which you should understand. However, even if you find it tough to comprehend what Index futures are, you can take assistance from the trade experts at Cannon Trading.
We at Cannon Trading want you to understand the basics and the details about Index Futures like our experts do. There are a number of blogs that we list here in our category archive. We recommend that you read these to know for yourself what Index Futures trading is all about.
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.
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.
The Labor Dept. releases its monthly Non-farm payrolls report tomorrow at 7:30 AM Central. Known as NFP ( non farm payrolls), unemployment report.
It’s widely considered to be one of the most important and influential measures of the U.S. economy and the report is released at 7:30 A.M., Central Time on the first Friday of the month.
Aluminum futures continue to gain market adoption and provide market participants the confidence they need to manage their aluminum price risk.
Volume in Q2 has hit record levels with average daily volume (ADV) over 4K contracts, up 197% year-over-year as of June 30. Q2 average open interest (OI) was 3,420 contracts, up from 457 contracts in Q2 2022, with 275 unique counterparties trading through the quarter.
The active outright for Aluminum is September, and the Bloomberg code is ALE3 . It will roll to October, ALE4 , on Monday, July 17.
See daily chart below and feel free to contact us with ANY questions.
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Sign up for the Cannon Trading via clearing partner StoneX + CME Group Equity Index Futures Trading Challenge for your chance to sizzle the competition this summer – Trade Micro, E-mini, and Standard size contracts on the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and Dow Jones in a risk-free environment while competing with fe11ow traders for a cash prize•.
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Use the Cannon Futures Trader Simulated Trading Environment and a virtual account of $100,000 to trade CME Group Equity Index futures. Increase your balance as much as possible between July 9th and July 21st for your chance to win!
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.
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.
Sign up for the Cannon Trading via clearing partner StoneX + CME Group Equity Index Futures Trading Challenge for your chance to sizzle the competition this summer – Trade Micro, E-mini, and Standard size contracts on the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and Dow Jones in a risk-free environment while competing with fe11ow traders for a cash prize•.
Use the Cannon Futures Trader Simulated Trading Environment and a virtual account of $100,000 to trade CME Group Equity Index futures. Increase your balance as much as possible between July 9th and July 21st for your chance to win!
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
Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.
Hot market of the week is provided by QT Market Center, A swiss army knife charting package that’s not just for Hedgers, Cooperatives and Farmers alike but also for Spread traders, Swing traders and shorter time frame application for intraday traders with a unique proprietary indicator that can be applied to your specific trading needs.
The September Kansas City- Chicago wheat spread completed its second downside PriceCount objective and responded with a key reversal and corrective trade. At this point, IF the chart can resume its break with new sustained laws, the third count would project a possible run to the 43 Cent area.
PriceCounts – Not about where we’ve been , but where we might be going next!
The PriceCount study is a tool that can help to project the distance of a move in price. The counts are not intended to be an ‘exact’ science but rather offer a target area for the four objectives which are based off the first leg of a move with each subsequent count having a smaller percentage of being achieved. It is normal for the chart to react by correcting or consolidating at an objective and then either resuming its move or reversing trend. Best utilized in conjunction with other technical tools, PriceCounts offer one more way to analyze charts and help to manage your positions and risk. Learn more at www.qtchartoftheday.com
Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.
With algorithmic trading systems becoming more prevalent in portfolio diversification, the following system has been selected as the broker’s choice for this month.
The performance shown above is hypothetical in that the chart represents returns in a model account. The model account rises or falls by the average single contract profit and loss achieved by clients trading actual money pursuant to the listed system’s trading signals on the appropriate dates (client fills), or if no actual client profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by the system’s trading signals on that day in real time (real‐time) less slippage, or if no real time profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by running the system logic backwards on back adjusted data. Please read full disclaimer HERE.
Questions about the markets? trading? platforms? technology? trading systems? Get answers with a complimentary, confidential consultation with a Cannon Trading Company series 3 broker.
First Notice (FN), Last trading (LT) Days for the Week: www.mrci.com
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 herein 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 judgment in trading.
Good Trading!
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.
Sign up for the Cannon Trading via clearing partner StoneX + CME Group Equity Index Futures Trading Challenge for your chance to sizzle the competition this summer – Trade Micro, E-mini, and Standard size contracts on the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and Dow Jones in a risk-free environment while competing with fe11ow traders for a cash prize•.
Use the Cannon Futures Trader Simulated Trading Environment and a virtual account of $100,000 to trade CME Group Equity Index futures. Increase your balance as much as possible between July 9th and July 21st for your chance to win!
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.
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.
The U.S. is well into summertime and with it agricultural futures, particularly field crops like corn, wheat and soybeans have gained in stature as already-planted crops are growing and developing toward their fall harvest. At the same time, corn, wheat and soybean futures contracts have seen seasonal and meaningful increases in trade volume. Along side this development, this year has seen noteworthy volatility in price movement. To provide some perspective on this year’s U.S. crop season is the futures exchange where these agricultural products’ futures contracts are traded: CME Group. While its exchanges make up the world’s largest operator of financial derivatives, it’s also an important source of futures research and education, with a collection of courses, lessons and webinars on trading, as well as a wealth of academic resources. For example, take a look at their report on corn released this week entitled, “Vol is High by the Fourth of July.” Get an understanding of how this crop year compares to other recent ones and what could be in store for prices.
More general (energy)
Keep an eye on the third-smallest country on the continent and the second-least populated there. It’s also one of the least densely populated countries on Earth (±10 people/mi²) with over 40% of its population living below the country’s poverty line. Because ever since the discovery of a collection of astonishing and promising oil finds in recent years – estimated at over 11 billion barrels of oil reserves off its coast – Guyana in South America has become an enlivened player on the world stage. With infrastructure investment dollars and know-how coming in from major energy players like Exxon Mobile, a formal invitation to join OPEC (so far, rebuffed), Guyana with a population of barely 800,000, has become the world’s fastest growing economy and is now ranked as having the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the Americas after the United States, Canada, and The Bahamas.
What level of attention have energy futures paid to the introduction of the largest addition to global oil reserves in the last 50 years? The early answer is very little, but worthy of monitoring. At ±360,000 barrels per day currently, Guyana barely moves the needle alongside the current ±90 million barrel-per day production globally. Still, oil demand is expected to decline in the coming decades and OPEC’s influence over oil prices has regressed in recent years as non-OPEC countries like the U.S. Brazil, Guyana and Egypt have collectively impacted the global supply/demand dynamic. This puts Guyana in a position to be an influential player as it works to increase production – with a planned 1 million barrels per day output by 2028.
Sign up for the Cannon Trading via clearing partner StoneX + CME Group Equity Index Futures Trading Challenge for your chance to sizzle the competition this summer – Trade Micro, E-mini, and Standard size contracts on the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and Dow Jones in a risk-free environment while competing with fe11ow traders for a cash prize•.
Use the Cannon Futures Trader Simulated Trading Environment and a virtual account of $100,000 to trade CME Group Equity Index futures. Increase your balance as much as possible between July 9th and July 21st for your chance to win!
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.
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.
Sign up for the Cannon Trading via clearing partner StoneX + CME Group Equity Index Futures Trading Challenge for your chance to sizzle the competition this summer – Trade Micro, E-mini, and Standard size contracts on the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and Dow Jones in a risk-free environment while competing with fe11ow traders for a cash prize•.
Use the Cannon Futures Trader Simulated Trading Environment and a virtual account of $100,000 to trade CME Group Equity Index futures. Increase your balance as much as possible between July 9th and July 21st for your chance to win!
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.
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.
Which economic number(s) can direct the Equity markets this week?
The answer , in advance of the upcoming July 4th week, is probably very few.
Most of the reports releasing this week will probably not shed any new light on what is already known. so far, with the aid of a strong labor market, the US economy is sufficiently resilient to remain out of recession despite the aggressive series of rate hikes begun in March 2022 to fight inflation.
For us traders, it will always remain important to know the TIME these reports are going to be released so you can anticipate the market behaving differently up to, during and following these government report releases. whether they are considered barn burners or not.
With possible statistical chance for range bound and choppy trading, traders may want to look at trading intraday spreads or even swing trading spreads such as Russell versus ES.
All times CDT – Tuesday Durable Goods 7:30 am,
Consumer Confidence and new home sales at 9:00 am,
Wednesday Fed Chair Jerome Powell 8:30 am,
Thursday GDP 3rd look at 1st quarter and Jobless claims, both at 7:30 am.
Watch the video below for a brief explanation on all of the above!
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.
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.
Trading Resource of the Week – FREE ONLINE COURSE: Options on Futures for Equity Traders
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Trading Resource of the Week – FREE ONLINE COURSE:
Options on Futures for Equity Traders
This course is geared towards traders familiar with trading equity options and will show you how a little knowledge around futures can help you transition from equity options to options on futures, using many of the strategies you already deploy. You will learn how options on futures are priced, how options can help you diversify your portfolio, as well as let you see opportunities during major economic events where you could trade options.
In this “Options on Futures for Equity Traders” FREE Course you will learn:
Understanding Options Contract Details
Trading Options on Futures Using Strategies you Already Know
Influence of Pricing on the Option for Equity Traders
Why Options on Futures Gives Added benefit of Diversifying Risk
Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.
With algorithmic trading systems becoming more prevalent in portfolio diversification, the following system has been selected as the broker’s choice for this month.
The performance shown above is hypothetical in that the chart represents returns in a model account. The model account rises or falls by the average single contract profit and loss achieved by clients trading actual money pursuant to the listed system’s trading signals on the appropriate dates (client fills), or if no actual client profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by the system’s trading signals on that day in real time (real‐time) less slippage, or if no real time profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by running the system logic backwards on back adjusted data. Please read full disclaimer HERE.
Questions about the markets? trading? platforms? technology? trading systems? Get answers with a complimentary, confidential consultation with a Cannon Trading Company series 3 broker.
First Notice (FN), Last trading (LT) Days for the Week: www.mrci.com
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 herein 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 judgment in trading.
Good Trading!
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.
Start trading September currencies and stock indices.
Tomorrow June index futures will expire into cash at 8:30 AM Central time.
Monday, June 19, 2023 US bank will be closed in observance of Juneteenth. There will be no money transactions Wires, ACH, Internal transfer and or currency conversion.
Volume in the June contracts will begin to drop off until their expiration next Friday, June 16th (8:30 A.M., Central Time). At that point, trading in these contracts halts. Stock index futures are CASH SETTLED contracts. If you hold any June futures contracts through 8:30 A.M., Central Time on Friday, June 16th, they will be offset with the cash settlement price, as set by the exchange.
The month code for September is ‘U.’ Please consider carefully how you place orders when changing over.
Watch the video below on how to rollover your market depth and charts!
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.
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.
It’s a big week for financial markets and their related futures contracts with interest rate decisions from three major central banks coming one after another: the U.S. Federal Reserve (which just decided not to raise rates for the first time in eleven months), the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Japan.
The Bank of Canada hiked rates last Wednesday to a 22-year high of 4.75%, having held rates steady since January. The day prior, Australia’s central bank raised rates by a quarter point to an 11-year high and warned of further tightening ahead.
One of the take-aways from last week’s surprise rate increases in Canada and Australia and today’s first-time respite by the Fed.: don’t take anything for granted.
Economies around the world are experiencing disparate inflation trajectories compared to others – including the U.S. – and their central bank’s efforts to getting inflation down have started to deviate somewhat. Financial and other futures markets, ever reacting to uncertainty – often overreacting – may become even more challenging arenas within which to trade.
This is pretty clear set-up to submit again the usefulness of trading options – either in combination with your futures trading or exclusive of it. Trading options offers a near limitless range of risk/reward scenarios to take on, from that on par with straight futures trading to substantially less to absolutely limited. And because options are valued in part by their ever-decaying lifespans, they offer another component to a trade’s outcome: time value.
If you think options aren’t for you, consider one sector’s growth in this area in the last recent years: equity index options. Options in the E-mini S&P 500 and E-mini Nasdaq continue to see strong growth in participation and volume as market participants are increasingly turning to the them as part of their trading – and talk to your broker at Cannon Trading Co. for more information.
See below the ADV ( avg. daily volume) for NQ and ES
Volume in the June contracts will begin to drop off until their expiration next Friday, June 16th (8:30 A.M., Central Time). At that point, trading in these contracts halts. Stock index futures are CASH SETTLED contracts. If you hold any June futures contracts through 8:30 A.M., Central Time on Friday, June 16th, they will be offset with the cash settlement price, as set by the exchange.
The month code for September is ‘U.’ Please consider carefully how you place orders when changing over.
Watch the video below on how to rollover your market depth and charts!
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.
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.
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.
