Different Methods of
Trading Futures
Day Trading Futures
Day trading involves taking advantage of short term price
movements in a market. Trades will be held less than a day, and typically many
trades will be placed during the day, sometimes being held for minutes, even
seconds.
Trading With Technical Analysis
There are millions of words spoken and written about the markets every day
but day trading technical analysts believe that all
these opinions are collectively shown on a price chart. The idea behind
technical analysis is that a price chart will show that a market is running
out of steam, is about to change direction, or is trending smoothly before a
news report or other fundamental reason is published.
Technical Analysis involves plotting market data on a graph (or chart)
and using various mathematical tools to gauge where future movements will lead
through the day.
For example, as long as a market's prices continue to move between two
upward, parallel trend-lines, an analyst may assume
the trend was bullish. And he would look to buy on any approaches of the lower
trend-line. He may look to exit positions near the upper trend-line.
It would only take seconds to look at each chart to see that the trend were
still upwards, or if the market was near a trend-line to buy or sell.
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technical
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Trading Futures Using Fundamental Analysis
The fundamental investor analyzes seasonal factors, crop, weather and news
reports and may spend many hours reading dozens of sources every day to decide
whether he should make a trade.
Some traders use entirely fundamental analysis, others entirely technical
analysis, and others use a combination of both. There is no pattern as to
which method is most successful and it appears to depend on the individual
trader.
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