Market Blueprints Thompson likens the process of developing a trading system to preparing a blueprint for constructing a building. Using this analogy, he describes the important components of a successful trading system, including such essentials as measuring trends and defining and measuring risk. This article should bring joy to the truly technical reader who uses a computer. A review of professional conferences in the futures industry. The funnel is formed when an uptrend line meets a downtrend line.
Canal explains how to use the funnel formation to keep trades in harmony with the market.
The main reason futures traders lose money, says the author, is poor portfolio management. In this article, Dr. Venitis discusses how to reverse this, by taking into account such factors as diversification, positioning and growth, and performance evaluation. An Art of Price Differentials Commodity spreading, a combination of a long and a short position in related commodity futures, comes in several forms, as Dr. Venitis explains in this article. Whether you're spreading different delivery months of the same commodity, different but related commodities, or any of the other types he discusses here, there's money to be made by using this art. Forecasting what the market is going to do, or following the trends and analyzing what the market is doing.