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If a trader does well and is consistent with outrights - then I would be the last person to criticize. There is no one correct way to successfully trade markets. Possibly another way still to look at it would be to lever the "more behaved" trading product. No one could argue that there are a...

As spread traders, we are modeling the relative convergence or divergence between two or more highly correlated instruments. That is where the buy or sell entry signals are generated. That, at least in my opinion, is the big difference between trading outright flat price instruments and a...

As spread traders, we are modeling the relative convergence or divergence between two or more highly correlated instruments. That is where the buy or sell entry signals are generated. That, at least in my opinion, is the big difference between trading outright flat price instruments and a...

Good point. What I meant was for me not to take personal credit for the origination of this particular spread combination entry idea, that it came from a particular client, and that this Sugar trade idea was subsequently distributed to other clients in a routine webinar. Thanks for the catch.

We tend to like to play a bit further out in the curve than some folks... As such, we try to learn to accept thinnish, chippy markets and press on if there's an exchange supported spread product. I had a client short this spread in April and it hit his profit target in June. The drawdowns...

OK, this is a nice short set-up... BUT, Mar and Jul only trade about 2K per day and May trades about 3K per day. It's a thin market but if you are the patient type and stay best offer during prime Chicago hours you might be able to get filled. We like to play out in the curve so we're used to...

The great thing about CTS is that you can lease it on a transaction basis and it caps out. Not an advert but this is true for Advantage Futures. We take stock index set-ups from time-to-time for swing trades but its not common for us. Probably because all my guys are so enamored with...

This one is going to be thin but doable in prime time hours if you can get to the exchange supported spreads. Decent short set-up.

I am sending out a recorded webinar to clients today entitled: "Meat on the Bone". This is a 75 minute discussion with several current trade set-up examples. Quite occasionally, trade entry set-ups might present a bit of a quandary to the trader in terms resolving a conflict between reasonable...

I am sending out a recorded webinar to clients today entitled: "Meat on the Bone". This is a 75 minute discussion with several current trade set-up examples. Quite occasionally, trade entry set-ups might present a bit of a quandary to the trader in terms resolving a conflict between...

Have any independent spread traders using an AutoSpreader or automated spread quoting platform out there been flagged by their clearing firms the past several months for excessive messaging ? I know that CME has improved their message-to-fill ratio policy, but was curious if there was any...

Spreads are performing for us. Been a good Spring and Summer thus far in the grain complex for the intracommodity spreads.

Great Post ! This is why us spread traders are such whores for screen monitor space...

I have come to like a rather long paper trading period so that I can meet with those clients routinely and make sure that they are conservative with their marks, and are exposed to multiple changes in market conditions and that they trade as many electronically available market sectors as...

Correct, the webinar materials are for clients.

Pressing winners can work well as you describe. Traders adding to losers in the name of "dollar cost averaging" and "price improvement" I'm not so enthusiastic about.

I have three clients going live in July and August, so I will have room in my training rotation and if anyone might be interested in learning more about becoming a client please PM or email me. We are primarily swing trading futures spreads, which have very low margin requirements as compared...

I have three clients going live in July and August, so if anyone might be interested in training with me the timing would be good.

There is a 4 page contract which addresses primarily NDA and my obligations to the client. Clients own the system outright for life provided that they do not share it with others. I provide a couple hundred hours of recorded webinars covering the entire spectrum of topics dealing with spread...

Yes, there are literally thousands of spread combinations. I provide a system, including a proprietary technical study package developed exclusively for spread trading, to make entry decisions. Since we are swing trading using longer timeframes, it's a bit more manageable. Your point is an...