You can start with the tools on the exchange website as Alert mentioned. Also try Google, you will find some useful resources there to get you started, ( url ) I found this quickly. Although Google is not what it used to be before as the quality of ...

Difference between commodity trading and forex?

PipPirates, You can use volatility adjusted stops, something like ATR adjusted or Bollinger Bands adjusted. What you want to achieve is to protect your existing profits without getting whipsawed in violent moves/swings in order to be able to capture ...

Effective Trailing Stop Method?

fx4joy, ok, now I understand, got you

Trading Options... What I've learned (the hard way)

Honestly, I haven't read the whole thread in details, but which statements, suggestions & claims are you specifically referring to?

Trading Options... What I've learned (the hard way)

Hey Presino, A small advice to you, binary options is a losing game for anyone to play, so stay away from it. It's pure gambling, so you'd better take your money to a casino. The odds in a Casino are better than binary options (They are still ...

Trading Options... What I've learned (the hard way)

You can use Interactive Brokers to trade most Bond Futures (2-Y, 5Y, 10Y, etc..) & Interest Rate Futures (Like Eurodollar, Short Sterling, etc..) You can also use Interactive Brokers to trade most corporate bonds (US mainly), but in that case you ...

With which brokers can you trade bonds and interest rates?

In all cases, you will have to subscribe and pay the exchange fees, which is GLOBEX (CME) in the case of currency FX futures. Any market data terminal offering it will do the job, you can do Metastock (And subscribe to GLOBEX and pay the monthly ...

Where can I find FX Futures live charts?

If you are comparing OTM calls of different instruments, then you are essentially not comparing apples to apples. As BubaYaga rightly mentioned, options are calculated using the Black-Scholes formula mainly. There are other formulas, Whaley, ...

Question about Out the Money (OTM) call options?

Hi agyo, I used to trade sugar futures back in 2006/2007 and briefly in 2011. I used to trade the NYBOT Sugar #11 not the ICE ones. Still following it but without trading as of lately. I use Interactive Brokers. Only problem is that NYBOT real-time ...

Sugar trading

There is no such free lunch Usually, options are priced based on several factors, one of them is volatility of the underlying. So if you pick highly volatile stocks to execute this strategy, you will find puts are expensive, so you will pay more ...

Profit whether a stock goes up or down (stock + options)

Sabbb, you can forget it, you will not find a commodity with a stable term structure, i.e. always in contango or always in backwardation. This is mainly because there is always a reason for the current term structure and why it is in contango or ...

Lumber Future Term Structure

Will have a look at it, thanks a lot... Regards, Nader

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

Thanks a lot, I am testing AmiBroker right now among others. Any feedback regarding other packages is highly appreciated. Regards, Nader

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

Thanks dastwo for your feedback...Have you tried Amibroker before in backtesting? What are the pros and cons briefly apart from speed and cost? Thanks, Nader

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

I can see a lot of debate regarding volume data for Spot FX in this post, in which it started as a question if August is a bad month or not.. Well, definitely, some periods/months of the year are slower than others, mainly due to long yearly holiday ...

Is August the most difficult trading month?

Thanks bdunn. Learning Easy Language of Trade Station won't be a time consuming issue like learning a real programming language, so it won't be an issue. Can you shed some light on the pros and cons of Trade Station from your experience. Thanks for ...

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

Thanks a lot Sti for your reply and for your offer as well, very generous from you. Time is a bit limited here that's why I am leaving the programming option as the last one if I didn't find a ready-made package which is good for what I am looking ...

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

Since nobody wrote any feedback or even wrote any questions about the thread and I am in a hurry to get some feedback and also given that the first post here is really a long one (Apologies for that), so I am rephrasing my question to: What is the ...

Strategy Backtesting Platforms

Sorry one more thing to add, although not drastically important to have but it's good if it's available in the package. A monte carlo add-on or capability, even if it's doing the basic job like equity curve scrambling and re-generation. Regards, ...

Strategy Backtesting Platforms