My Experiences Trading Live Cattle and Meat Commodity Futures Contracts and Options

Live Cattle, like corn is a great market for beginning commodity traders. The meats complex also includes Pork Bellies, Lean Hogs and Feeder Cattle. Here’s some hints and kinks to get you off to a good start trading the meats!LIVE CATTLELive Cattle, like corn, is a great market for beginners. The margins are low and [...]

Emini Trading – Margin in Emini Futures

If you are familiar with the margin for stock trading, you know that this is the amount the broker allows you to borrow using your funds as a collateral. Usually, this is 100%, meaning if you hold $10,000 in your account, you can control $20,000 of stock. In some situations, that only pros or semi-pros [...]

Emini Trading – Basic Introduction to Day Trading Emini Futures

Have you ever thought about day trading for a living? I am sure you must have at least heard about it, right? Yes, there are people doing it for a living, some making big bucks in the process, others losing their shirts, trophy wives, and mortgages. Not necessarily in this order. And I am quite [...]