By Lind-Waldock
Compliment FOR the total advisor to FUTURES TRADING
"It does a great activity of conveying, in a method that's transparent to the layman, how the futures global works and what's required to be triumphant as a trader."
--Financial Engineering News
"This landmark booklet makes futures buying and selling available to mainstream person traders. As leader govt officer of the most important monetary alternate on this planet for buying and selling futures and recommendations, i will be able to wholeheartedly suggest this quantity for the reader who desires to examine the basics of making an investment in futures."
--From the Foreword via Craig S. Donohue, leader govt Officer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
"The entire advisor to Futures buying and selling is the last word 'getting started' consultant. The e-book leads you thru an informative but concise direction with an A-to-Z clarification of the way to exchange futures effectively. eSignal has partnered with Lind-Waldock for greater than a decade to supply futures investors with trustworthy, exact, and actionable info. this can be a much-needed and well-written source for the hot futures trader."
--Chuck Thompson, President, eSignal
"My hat is off to the authors of this super well-written and well timed booklet approximately futures buying and selling. If the specialists are correct that the subsequent bull industry could be in commodities, this advisor will discover a huge viewers between traders attracted to diversifying past shares and bonds. This advisor does a very good task of explaining the sensible features of futures buying and selling and may be of significant use to someone attracted to utilizing those tools to take part in marketplace trends."
--John Damgard, President, Futures organization
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Extra resources for The Complete Guide to Futures Trading: What You Need to Know about the Risks and Rewards
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Becoming a Futures Trader 25 Metals Prices for precious metals such as gold and platinum have less of a supply/ demand impact than most commodities. S. dollar, prospects for inflation or deflation, geopolitical tensions, or other situations where investors turn to metals as a store of value in uncertain times. Gold prices have been affected at times by central bank sales, but the latest political developments may provide a better gauge of prices than any supply/demand issue. By contrast, copper, palladium, and silver are nonprecious or industrial metals that do respond to supply/demand factors—silver has a dual role among the metals for both its industrial and monetary uses.
Is one method better than another? The most that can be said may be that different methods work best at different times. You shouldn’t be too surprised at the abundance of viewpoints on how to make a trading decision. After all, the wealth of opinions as to the best course of action is what makes a market. To get around this subjectiveness, certain traders, called systems traders, quantify the buy/sell rules and back-test the results. They seek an objective set of rules that profit over time. 1 Price channel.
Random Walk and Efficient Markets Hypothesis The academic community teaches that changes in price are “serially independent”—in essence, random and unpredictable. According to the efficient markets hypothesis, the typical investor is unable to beat the market trading actively over time and would actually be better off with a buy-and-hold strategy because of the lower transaction costs. The theory holds that, although financial assets have an intrinsic value, the actual price will fluctuate randomly around that value.
