21. Three Habits of Successful Beginning E-Mini Traders
December 15, 2012
There are a variety of numbers bandied about concerning the success rate of beginning e-mini traders. Most often, you hear that 95% of all new traders fail within three months. That's a pretty scary number, and when I hear it repeated I often wonder why anyone would want to tackle the challenges thi...
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22. Measured Moves and E-Mini Trading: Do They Work?
December 15, 2012
If you gather a group of experienced e-mini traders in a group and float the topic of measured moves you are likely to hear a wide variety of polarizing opinions. As a matter of fact, you may be hard-pressed to get the group to agree on even a working definition of the term. Now that I have hint...
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23. The Secret E-Mini Trading System
December 15, 2012
As a full-time e-mini trader and educator it sometimes seems as though I live my life in a bubble; my trading hours make me feel like a hermit, oblivious to news outside the trading community. But every now and then, I take the time to look what is being offered as e-mini trading education. The CFTC...
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24. E-Mini Trading: Following the PFGBest Mess, How Safe Is Your Futures Trading Account?
July 15, 2012
Learning to trade e-mini contracts is a major chore in and of itself; but for some traders’, major regulatory failures that have resulted in the loss of their funds. In recent years several major trading firms have closed their doors (or had been closed) due to overall mismanagement, poor regulation...
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25. E-mini Trading and the Helicopter Blues
July 14, 2012
I can't decide whether I'm blessed or cursed to be trading the e-mini during a period of time which must certainly be considered “the decade of the central banker.” Although I have long been professional trader, mostly e-mini trading in the last eight years, I consider myself an amateur financial h...
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26. E-Mini Trading and the Arms Index
July 08, 2012
If you have read any number of articles that I have written, you realize that I have an interest in e-mini contract volume. I make no bones about my belief that volume is poorly understood by most traders and is an important variable in the supply/demand equation that determines e-mini price movemen...
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27. Basic Elements in Measuring E-Mini Market Strength
July 07, 2012
There are very few e-mini trading sources that don't, at some point, emphasize the importance of trading with the trend. This article is no different; I highly recommend focusing on trading with the trend. However, not all trends are created equal and every trend begins to falter and finally reverse...
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28. E-mini Trading: Can You Trade Retracements in a Trend?
July 06, 2012
It seems to me that most countertrend trades are the result of individuals attempting to trade retracements in an established trend. As a trader, you will often be presented with some very enticing setups against the trend. Uninitiated traders often mistake these enticing countertrend trades for tre...
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29. E-Mini Trading: The Dead Cat Bounce
July 05, 2012
I have heard this particular expression used often and in a variety of e-mini trading situations and thought it might be useful to clarify exactly what e-mini traders are referring to when they described a “dead cat bounce.” Since this term is indelicate, at best, and tasteless at worst, we shall ab...
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30. Is There a Way to Calculate Risk/Reward for Breakout Trading?
June 28, 2012
One of the most exhilarating e-mini trades is participating in a successful breakout trade. Of course, whether or not the trade is successful is what makes this trade so exciting; not to mention that these trades sometimes run for a considerable gain, which is a result sure to put a smile on every t...
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Author: David Adams
