Trading Spreads and Seasonals is a powerful, profit enhancing trading course based on Joe Ross’ years of personal trading experience and remarkable trading success. These days, it seems most traders are focused on outright futures or options trading strategies. You hardly ever hear of anyone who trades spreads or seasonal spreads, or outright seasonal futures – especially at the same time! That’s because very few futures traders truly understand seasonality. This is why far too many never earn all they can from trading. Worse than that, they end up losing money.
Introduction:
Joe is one of the few in recent years to consider how those historical tendencies can be analyzed for trading in current real-time. Historical tendencies are powerful tools, but in practice most traders need to maintain some flexibility and use some judgment. This book helps demystifY seasonal price movement.
As you read through Trading Spreads and Seasonals and examine the ideas Ioe discusses, you may broaden your knowledge and scope of understanding of the business of trading. As you begin to recognize that “trading is a business,” you may become a more mature, patient trader. As your trading takes on the added dimensions of maturity and patience, you may become more relaxed; and as you become more relaxed, you may view markets-and life-with greater clarity.
You’ll find out just what to look for before you enter a trade, such as how to spot trends that will affect you positively where it counts, your trading account. You will not only learn how to hedge your risk, but how to use it to explode your profits in a steady pattern of equity growth! You’ll see which markets to avoid and which trades to avoid. You’ll know when to get in and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, when to get out. Trading Spreads and Seasonals does it simply, without all the technical mumo-jumbo and mathmatical formulas of other approches.
Contents:
- What is a “Spread?”
- How to Trade Spreads to Reduce Risk
- Seasonal Spread Trade Selection
- Non-Seasonal Spreads
- Fractional Spreads
- Using Spreads to Reduce Volatility
- Trading Spreads Using Technical Indicators
- Technical Filtering for Spreads
- Seasonal Futures Market Selection
- Outright Seasonal Futures: Checking the Fundamentals
- Seasonal Futures w/Chart Patterns and Bollinger Bands
- Thinking and Trading Go Together
- Beware of Stop Running
- Carrying Charge Spreads
- Converting Daytrades to Spreads