Trading indexes rather than individual securities is a viable strategy many traders use to speculate with and investors use to hedge their portfolios. Indexes allow traders to get exposure to general ...

making them easier to buy and more affordable. Wall Street firms and other large investors have long enjoyed the ability to manage portfolio risk with futures and E-mini futures contracts. Now the ...

I’m often asked about what I term the “low capital requirement” trading instruments. These areas (e.g., forex, options and futures, and especially the e-mini futures) have high leverage and the ...

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Do Pivot Points work in systematic trading? This article will attempt to answer this question by defining precise rules and creating a trading system on the world's best-known and most traded future, ...