Best Trading Instrument

Well, he does not trade, mostly he just buy and keeps them forever.

 

Best trading instrument for beginners?

 

CL

Lots of vol with small margin requirement.

 

Read his annual report, he earns billions trading derivatives

 

ES - Simply because you always know it's gonna go up in general and you have the government on your side which makes everything a little bit easier!

 

I just followed what he preached, not what he did.

Cheers.

 

I think your question is which trading instruments is easier to trade.

There is no particular trading instruments that is easy to trade.
It might be easy to trade (ie also easy to earn $$$) today . Next day it might not.

Let me talk about day trading, trading directional (ie no spreading).
I notice these instruments tend to move in organised manner:

copper, gbpusd, gold, oil, lean hog, live cattle, soya, natural gas, Bund, euro-BTP,
various asian and US indices futures


These instruments are virtually untradable as it hardly move most of the time:
nikkei, corn, wheat, palm oil, at times ES and dax, ZN, GE

These instruments are very violent ie hard to trade:
Heating oil, gasoline.


Important thing is to look at the chart and see how organised, how disorganised / untrendy/messy it is. Also monitor its day range; the bigger the better.

 

it's a stacked deck against retail traders

 

Agree, especially against us small mom and pop retail traders.

Knowing that, it makes winning a lot sweeter does it?

 

Exactly, but you need to know options. Especially sell side...