When to Buy Futures | How to Do Futures
Apr 29, 2021
By Frank Kaberna
Overview
Are you interested in buying stocks, commodities, or both, but don't know if you have the right product and timing? Futures can give access to trading strategies not allowed in stocks and options due to pattern day trading rules, and the Smalls do so in a size that fits the everyday trader. Learn different ways to analyze when the best time might be to buy a futures contract in our seminar on Buying Futures, part of our How to Do Futures video series. Frank presents the strategy behind buying futures using product context and advanced statistics!
Contents
2:25 What's on the Agenda?
3:30 Comparing Products
4:25 Cash or Physical Assets?
6:05 Popular ETFs
7:10 Using Futures
9:40 Capital Requirements
11:45 Price Extremes
13:20 Historical Averages
15:15 Volatile Moves & Opportunities
16:05 Trading Standard Deviations
17:20 Relative Value
17:50 NOB Spread
19:25 Timing Your Trade
20:35 Unrealistic Expectations
22:50 Working Orders
23:50 Price Averaging
25:45 Using the Smalls
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The Small Exchange is making markets more accessible to more people with products that mix the efficiency of futures with the simplicity of stocks. The Smalls offer easily adoptable solutions to risk management and speculative needs of the modern trader in markets ranging from stocks and bonds to currencies and commodities.
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