API for Developers 5.7.018

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Check out our API section for developers, traders who need customized applications, auto trading and much more:

https://www.cannontrading.com/software/futures-trading-api

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5 Fact about Brent Crude 5.4.018

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5 Facts about Brent Crude 
By Senior Broker, Mark O’ Brien

Brent crude is a primary classification of crude oil used as a reference price for trading crude oil around the world. It is also known as London Brent and Brent Blend.

It was first extracted in 1976 from a small area in the North Sea called the Brent field by Shell U.K. Limited (now Royal Dutch Shell), which made it a practice of naming oil fields after water birds.  For this particular area, the name comes from a small water bird called the Brent goose.

While the Brent field is now no longer economically viable, Brent crude is now comprised of oil extracted from fifteen later-developed oil fields located throughout the North Sea, an area of roughly 220,000 square miles.  This area comprises by far the largest oil reserves in western Europe – land or sea.

Read more at

http://www.stockhouse.com/opinion/independent-reports/2018/05/01/5-facts-about-brent-crude#aPaDiqdofoX4VG2J.99

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Support & Resistance Levels 5.3.018

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There will be no market commentary today. Read full article to see trading levels and economic reports for Thursday, May 3rd 2018.

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The Difference Between Commodities And Equities Trading 5.2.018

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The Difference Between Commodities And Equities Trading

A Commodity: What is a legal contractual agreement to make or take delivery of a particular product?
An Equity or Common Stock: What is a legal contractual ownership in a company?
Similarities.
  • Both have regulated markets
  • Both can utilize the same/identical indicators, charting conventions to identify, trends and trade set-ups.
  • Order mechanics: Market, Stops, Stop limits, OCO’s, OSO’s GTC’s
  • Fees: Less than $7.00 per order/contract

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Trading Levels for May 1st, 2018

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Support & Resistance Levels 4.30.2018.. #ZW_F #ES_F #NQ_F #RTY_F #SI_F #GC_F #CL_F

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ECB Rate Decision Tomorrow & Trading Levels for April 26th 2018

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ECB RATE decision tomorrow early. Can be a market mover! ( This is the equivalent of our FOMC but for European Union).

Always know what reports are coming and how they affect the markets you are trading!

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Before you Can Succeed as a Trader, you Need to Learn How to Accept a Losing Day 4.25.2018

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I must admit today’s volatility was tough for me both as a trader and as a broker….

Some days are just losing days….

Don’t fight it. You will have losing days. I have been in the futures industry for 20 years now and never have I met a trader who did not have a losing day…and  I will never meet one….impossible.

Understand it and accept it.  One of your hardest jobs as a day trader is to make sure a losing day does NOT become a disaster…Our human emotions and our brain is not programmed very well to learn how to lose. Yet one of the key differences between traders and those who try to become “traders”…is that traders first learn how to lose. They understand losing is part of trading. The others, refuse to take a lose and will make many mistakes along the way to make a “normal losing” day into a disaster. That may be carrying positions overnight when they normally don’t, reversing, pyramiding and many other mistakes that they would normally not make. That turns a “normal losing day” (maybe for an acct of $10,000, a normal losing day would be down $500?) into one of those days where they wipe out half of their account if not more….

Sometimes we need to learn how to lose before we can excel in trading.

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Gold Demand Hurt by Bitcoin – Levels for Trading on April 24th 2018

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Bitcoin Nipping At Gold Demand

by DEBBIE CARLSON

Supply & Demand
The World Gold Council (WGC), the trade group representing the gold industry, said in its fourth-quarter Gold Demand Trends report that the yellow metal’s global, full-year demand fell by 7% last year. ETF demand in 2017 was one-third of 2016’s pace, although 2016 was the second-highest year on record.

Rhind and Thomas say the people who were interested in bitcoin were drawn to the parabolic price rise, rather than viewing it as having the same risk management role in their portfolio as gold does.

“Almost to the person, they all thought bitcoin was exploding, and they didn’t want to miss ‘the move’ … no one ever mentioned safety to me,” Thomas said.

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COT Reports and Other Valuable Information Available from the CFTC 4.20.2018

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A Quick Review of Valuable  Reports Made Available by the C.F.T.C. for All Traders

By John Thorpe, Cannon Trading Senior Broker

A data source that escapes many futures traders and should be reviewed if you are a serious position trader are the reports compiled on a weekly basis by our chief regulator, The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC. These reports offer insight into market imbalances, liquidity, and large bank, both domestic and international, participation. I encourage all traders, even day traders, to familiarize yourself with these reports as they provide a salient view of market structure given a particular futures contract as the structure changes over time.

There is:

1.) BPR’s “Bank Participation Rate” reports which, by open interest you can view market imbalances. Bank Participation Rate Webpage

Another report compiled by the CFTC is the:

2.) Net position changes. The Large Trader Net Position Changes and the Trading Account Net Position Changes data provides the public with a view of the amount of trading that results in net changes to positions at the trader level and at the account level. Net Position Changes Webpage

https://www.cannontrading.com/tools/support-resistance-levels/quick-review-valuable-reports-made-available-c-f-t-c-traders/

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