Until about 15 years ago, futures markets were dominated by trading in the ‘pit’ — the physical trading floor. Pit traders yelled out their buy/sell orders to find a fellow floor trader to assume the counterpart. Known as ‘Open Outcry,’ this was a very authentic (and fun) process though it represented a very slow, manual […]
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Editor’s Note: Gabriel is a successful full-time trader, a VTI workshop instructor, and a dedicated coach to traders who use his systems. Since his graduation from Van’s Super Trader program in 2010, he has mainly traded Forex and futures markets. He will share his extensive experience and trading knowledge at the two upcoming Futures Trading
Every trader goes through certain stages of development. Part of the first stage is to find a good trading system that fits the trader who also commits to fully following its rules. Learning and internalizing the rules of the system, the trader will need to build extensive experience trading the system. In this phase, the
A few years back I started teaching a 3-day Forex Systems Workshop based on three systems I actively trade. The systems use a simple and precise set of pattern-based rules so even novice traders can adopt the systems fairly quickly. If you trade systems based on visual pattern recognition, you need to learn to identify
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