51. E-Mini Training: A Common Trade That Often Ends in Disaster
October 04, 2011
If you have traded for any period of time, you start noticing where other e-mini traders are setting up to take trades. Sometimes I am very impressed with the positioning some traders utilize to enter trades; sometimes not so much. Of course, in my personal trading (and I am sure that most traders f...
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52. E-Mini Trading: Is Scalping Dead? Is Swing Trading Dead?
October 04, 2011
Whenever we, as a country, find ourselves in trying times the “doom and gloom” crowd comes out of the woodwork. I remember my first exposure to this phenomenon came back in the late 1980’s when an author whose name I have long since forgotten wrote a book entitled, “The Coming Market Crash of 1990.”...
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53. E-Mini Trading: Leverage, the Dog That Bites
October 03, 2011
One of the most important factors in attracting new traders to the e-mini markets is the ample supply of leverage you are allowed to trade. While e-mini trading is not the most leveraged trading in the world, you'll find an average in the area of 50:1. Wow! At first glance, most traders are encoura...
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54. 3 Important Things New E-mini Traders Can do to Succeed
September 25, 2011
The failure rate of new e-mini traders is disturbing. According to various sources, 90% of all new traders are out of the market within 3 months, their trading account balances exhausted. There can be little doubt that e-mini trading presents a challenging skill set to learn and execute, but there ...
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55. With The Shaky Economy, Can I Still Trade the E-mini's in this Volatility?
September 24, 2011
Though the volatility has caused some problems of late, most days have been pretty good days to trade, if you have been willing to expand your stops to just about as wide as your risk tolerance can stand. As a small e-mini trader (which I define as a trader trading less than 50 contracts), price vo...
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56. How Much Can I Really Earn My First Year of E-mini Trading?
September 24, 2011
A casual and non-scientific surfing of several well-known (and some that are not quite so well known) e-mini trading education sites revealed a wide range of guarantees and earnings projections. I was perplexed with many of the claims these sites offered. One site made such bombastic claims that I ...
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57. E-Mini Trading: How Do You Get Started the Right Way?
September 24, 2011
There is certainly no lack of verbiage in the day trading forums about unhappy and unprofitable experiences with a variety of trading educators. I think, by and large, that this sort of frank discussion is good for our business. There are a number of very talented e-mini trading educators currently ...
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58. E-Mini Trading: More on Transitioning from Part Time to Full Time E-Mini Trading
September 23, 2011
I wrote an article last week on when the time is right to transition from part-time to full-time e-mini trading. It was a brief article, and as I thought about the topic further I decided that I had more to say about the transitioning process. One thing I failed to emphasize, in my opinion, was the ...
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59. Different Scalping Styles to Day Trade the E-mini Contracts
September 21, 2011
E-mini scalping technique employs components from technical trading, fundamental trading, and efficient market theory. Further, it seems that no two e-mini traders utilize some or all of these components in the same manner. In this short article we are going to limit our discussion of scalping to e-...
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60. When Do You Transition From Part Time to Full-Time E-Mini Trading?
September 20, 2011
This is a question I am often asked by individuals as they progress in learning how to trade the e-mini contracts. To be sure, it is a question I am usually very reluctant to answer because of the far-reaching ramifications to traders of finances, money management and ends some cases, even relations...
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Author: David Adams
