Futures Spread Trading


Book Description

This is the definitive and complete guide to spread trading in futures. Covers spread trading methods -- analyzing spreads and spread price action, as well as discovering and executing profitable spread trades. Brings together various methods, such as analyzing prices combined with analyzing historical data on commodity price trends. Offers information on the following topics: Why Spread Prices Change, Carrying Charges, Historical Comparison Analysis, Seasonal Analysis, Chart Analysis, The Trading Plan, Trading Techniques, Sources of Information. This is a completely revised, updated, and expanded version o: Smith's earlier book, Commodity Spreads.




A Guide to Spread Trading Futures


Book Description

This guide is perfect to get you started into the world of Spread Trading. It looks at Spread Basics, Spread Strategies and money management in order to get you started into Spread Trading. In this time where Trading is becoming tougher with the wild gyrations of the market, a solid safe strategy, which gives us a more predictable trading pattern and hence increase profitability is what I have been striving for, and have been able to achieve with Spreading Futures. The guide is simple to follow with to the point information, on this exciting and highly profitable form of trading and it will equip you with the tools you need to face the challenge of Spread Trading.




Futures Spread Trading Tradestation


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There was once a time when the only people who were able to trade actively in the stock market were those working for large financial institutions, brokerages, and trading houses. However, with the rise of the internet and online trading houses, it's become easier for the average individual investor to get in on the game. This book is intended to empower you with riveting and profound data. That's especially true whether your goal is to get a great head start in the financial world, uncover the mysteries of day trading, or wish to know how to reap the benefits of this trading. Here's an overview of what you'll find inside this book: -Understanding day trading? -Futures trading -Futures spread trading -How to make a profit on the futures market -Golden trading rules and mistakes to avoid -Proven and time-tested futures trading strategies -Technical and fundamental analysis -The right risk and money management




The Complete Guide to Spread Trading


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Spread trading, a low-risk, high-profit technique, involves buying a contract in one market while selling a different contract in another market to profit from the imbalance between those markets. The Complete Guide to Spread Trading covers the step-by-step mechanics for successfully executing more than 25 calendar, intermarket, interest rate, volatility, and stock index spreads. It explains both basic and advanced spread techniques and strategies, revealing market situations where spreads are most appropriate as well as clarifying what it means to buy or sell a spread, and more.







Trading VIX Derivatives


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A guide to using the VIX to forecast and trade markets Known as the fear index, the VIX provides a snapshot of expectations about future stock market volatility and generally moves inversely to the overall stock market. Trading VIX Derivatives will show you how to use the Chicago Board Options Exchange's S&P 500 volatility index to gauge fear and greed in the market, use market volatility to your advantage, and hedge stock portfolios. Engaging and informative, this book skillfully explains the mechanics and strategies associated with trading VIX options, futures, exchange traded notes, and options on exchange traded notes. Many market participants look at the VIX to help understand market sentiment and predict turning points. With a slew of VIX index trading products now available, traders can use a variety of strategies to speculate outright on the direction of market volatility, but they can also utilize these products in conjunction with other instruments to create spread trades or hedge their overall risk. Reviews how to use the VIX to forecast market turning points, as well as reveals what it takes to implement trading strategies using VIX options, futures, and ETNs Accessible to active individual traders, but sufficiently sophisticated for professional traders Offers insights on how volatility-based strategies can be used to provide diversification and enhance returns Written by Russell Rhoads, a top instructor at the CBOE's Options Institute, this book reflects on the wide range of uses associated with the VIX and will interest anyone looking for profitable new forecasting and trading techniques.




Commodity Spread Trading - The Correct Method of Analysis


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Your goal is to have a method that gives you a complete and clear picture of the situation of a commodity or spread? That's what you will learn reading "Commodity Spread Trading - The Correct Method of Analysis." "The Correct Method of Analysis" completes the path on Commodity Spread Trading; after the theory, the practice. In this second volume, you will see explained a very valid method of analysis of a commodity or spread. You cannot reduce the trading with the commodities to a standard strategy to always follow, in automatic, because the variables that can affect, for example, the crops or livestock are many. As it is wrong, to reduce the spread trading to the seasonal trades recommended by Moore Research, SeasonAlgo or SpreadCharts, to their entry and exit dates. Trading in commodities is more complex and requires more data to get the complete picture of the situation, to have the odds on your side. In "The Correct Method of Analysis", I show you a method of analysis in four steps which is the result of over 25 years of experience (even as a fund manager) in the financial markets, especially in commodities, and which led me in 2018 to collaborate with one of the most important European investment companies. But not only. I will demonstrate to you how, to consider only the spreads recommended by Moore Research, SeasonAlgo and SpreadCharts limits the spread trading a lot and precludes many other opportunities. In the examples, I tried to convey to you all my experience, by explaining important aspects that will improve your trading with commodities. What you will learn by reading "Commodity Spread Trading - The Correct Method of Analysis": - the study of seasonality; - fundamental analysis; - term structure analysis; - contango distribution; - how to trade the anomalies; - and other important aspects through several examples. You will see how I analyse a commodity or spread before opening a trade.




A Complete Guide to the Futures Market


Book Description

The essential futures market reference guide A Complete Guide to the Futures Market is the comprehensive resource for futures traders and analysts. Spanning everything from technical analysis, trading systems, and fundamental analysis to options, spreads, and practical trading principles, A Complete Guide is required reading for any trader or investor who wants to successfully navigate the futures market. Clear, concise, and to the point, this fully revised and updated second edition provides a solid foundation in futures market basics, details key analysis and forecasting techniques, explores advanced trading concepts, and illustrates the practical application of these ideas with hundreds of market examples. A Complete Guide to the Futures Market: Details different trading and analytical approaches, including chart analysis, technical indicators and trading systems, regression analysis, and fundamental market models. Separates misleading market myths from reality. Gives step-by-step instruction for developing and testing original trading ideas and systems. Illustrates a wide range of option strategies, and explains the trading implications of each. Details a wealth of practical trading guidelines and market insights from a recognized trading authority. Trading futures without a firm grasp of this market’s realities and nuances is a recipe for losing money. A Complete Guide to the Futures Market offers serious traders and investors the tools to keep themselves on the right side of the ledger.




Futures Spreads


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A large number of transactions on futures markets are accomplished in the form of the purchase and sale of spreads. However, information available on this topic is extremely limited. At the same time, working with spreads is a day-to-day exercise for professional market participants. Professional traders, hedgers, and institutional investors actively use this interesting and complex tool over the course of their work. Various types of futures spreads are systematized in this book, fundamental factors influencing these spreads are examined in detail, and different spread analysis procedures are described. Questions on the structuring and mechanics of each individual spread are discussed, accompanied by examples and charts. The margin requirements for spreads are presented, and the tick size of a spread movement is calculated wherever possible. Furthermore, the question of using spreads as an investment tool is examined in detail, starting with the analysis of futures spreads for the purpose of assessing trade opportunities and ending with the formulation of a trading strategy and the compilation of a trading plan. This book targets practicing traders who want to expand the range of tools and strategies they use, investment bank and finance company employees, students at institutions of higher education, and anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the principles of the functioning of futures markets and to familiarize themselves with such an interesting tool as a futures spread in greater detail. It may be of special interest to beginning individual investors who want to take advantage of the relatively predictable and low-risk strategies that are possible when working with spreads.




Options on Futures


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Increased marketplace volatility and the expanding size of capital markets have led to an explosion of interest in options on futures. What makes these instruments so attractive is that they allow traders to profit from movements in the markets using little up-front capital and plenty of leverage. At the same time, they provide an excellent hedge against the risks associated with capital market investments. This book demystifies these notoriously difficult-to-understand instruments and provides state-of-the-art strategies and tools for making the most of options on futures. John F. Summa (New Haven, CT) is a CTA and cofounder of OptionsNerd.com, an online service providing market commentary, trading advisories, and assistance with trading system development. Jonathan Lubow (Randolph, NJ) is cofounder and Vice President of Trader's Edge, a futures and options brokerage.