I'd also ask what made you successful at stocks? What type of analysis did you use as a filter?
Depending on which commodity markets you are interested in and also on why you are trading commodities I keep a blog called Not Just Inflation...
Cocoa - worth a shot near the 200 day moving average? Cocoa falls back to the short-term trend line from the 26th of December. Even though the...
Sugar posts a doji, but the Dollar rallied... i'm sitting tight. Sugar posted a doji candle yesterday after 3 positive days which is not a great...
Cocoa still seems to be trending higher from the mid-December lows and might once again pull back towards that trendline which is somewhere in the...
just googled this, i was being lazy. Hard Red Spring Wheat. and Minneapolis!
Sounds like you need a long/medium term filter, so only trade in the direction of the 200 day moving average or whatever time frame but something...
Also whether you are 'confident' or not in your positions is totally down to your personality and system. A mechanical trader (which this...
if i bought at 20 and exit at 20 then there is no loss aside from transaction costs. If I bought one at 21 and exit at 20, then the loss is 1...
and MW is Minnesota wheat correct?
is HRS supposed to be HRW (as in Hard Red Winter wheat)? otherwise i don't know what it stands for
That was Friday, what's your take at the moment? Do you scale into and out of positions? Or always one position of the same size ?
Thanks tomorton - but what does r:r stand for? risk return?
There's a second more subtle piece of knowledge which sounds obvious but reveals the insight of the process, which is that you cannot know which...
The strategy threads. There's a lot of discussions about the process of deciding how to trade / how to decide when to take off a trade and money...
My read is they're all long or all short trades. Using numbers, you buy at 100, stop at 99.13. If the price moves to 100.87 then you buy a second...
I think you are asking by managing 'how you add to the trade and take off some of your position' can you make money? I would say you need to do...
Cotton - still some more room on the downside. Still feels like there is some more room on the downside in Cotton, at least into the 50-61.3%...
Cocoa steady, sit and hold. Cocoa has had another day in a narrow range above the 200 day moving average which is a good sign. I could not say the...
Sugar fights back, manages to escape the bears clutches... for now. Surprisingly strong candle posted by sugar yesterday after the big negative...
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