Crude oil futures are known for the enormous risks and rewards they can pose to the trader given how volatile the underlying commodity market can be. With...
Learn how our experienced derivatives traders enter, manage, and defend the straddle strategy using futures options, and find out if the high potential ROC...
What do you do when the dust settles, the smoke clears, and you’re left with middling markets? After quite a volatile May, June has seen the stock market...
If you’re a current participant of the futures market or new to it with your account activated to trade Small Exchange® futures, you have access to a variety...
The first time you hear about the novelty and cost-effectiveness of stock options can be eye-opening. You can get long, short, or neutral from different prices...
Stock investors seeking a little more alpha can branch out into options, and the same audience might look to add futures to the mix for a low-cost speculative...
Volatility is at the core of almost all options strategies. Whether you’re looking to get long, short, or neutral, the price of options, and thus the market’s...
One of the biggest sticking points for stock or option traders trying to add futures can be the fear of joining a zero sum game. Stocks drift higher over time...
When it comes to trading opportunities, few assets offer more possibilities than commodities. Basic materials are highly cyclical and move in forceful,...
Trade idea generation can be one of the biggest hurdles in getting started trading futures. What charts do traders look at? Where do they find their...
The Fed primarily controls interest rates, which they move higher in times of inflation and lower in times of recession. But what do they do when there's fear...
High inflation is causing some of the largest price extremes, bond and forex markets have seen in decades. Mike and Frank show you how high inflation has...
The highest inflation measure in more than 40 years has left many markets in utter disarray: Nasdaq is at its lowest since 2020, interest rates are their...
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