TABLE OF MARKETS
The information in Table 8.1 (on pages 50–51) is subject to change at any
time and is for educational purposes only. Check with your commodities
broker for current commodity specifications before trading.
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Selecting a Financial Market
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GREAT DAY TRADING MARKETS
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S&P e-mini (ES) futures market
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S&P futures market
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NASDAQ e-mini (NQ) futures market
These markets are liquid, competitive, fun, and fast and exhibit good
intraday trends. I also have enjoyed trading the NASDAQ QQQQ (formerly
known as the QQQ) and the DIA (Dow Diamonds) indexes.
The futures markets are set up for speculating, and the stock markets
are set up for investing. Short-term traders are speculating. However, a
valid argument is that there are more opportunities in the stock market
because there are more stocks than futures markets.
You decide which markets are best for you. The e-mini markets are
electronic, with fast fills, which are great for day trading. Also, with an e-
mini market you can buy more contracts than the regular contract of that
market, which can be advantageous, especially when applying “scaling-
out” techniques that require multiple contracts. In addition, the e-mini
markets can be traded with smaller trading accounts while still operating
within proper money management risk controls and trade size.
ATTENTION OPTION TRADERS
If you trade options, you will apply the ART principles to the chart of the
underlying asset. You will be trading the option of that underlying asset.
There are many ways to trade options, but ART focuses on buying deep
in-the-money call options to go long and buying deep in-the-money put op-
tions to go short. Some traders like to sell options, but here we’ll work on
how you can use ART to trade options.
The key in trading options short term is to be sure you are trading the
most liquid contract month and choose a “strike price” that yields a delta
as close to 1:1 as possible. A delta of 1:1 means that when the underlying
asset changes price, the premium price of that option also changes by the
same amount.
To achieve this, you need to trade an option that is in-the-money
enough to obtain as close as possible to a 1:1 delta. This eliminates the
time value of the option so you can make an equal amount on the option
as the underlying asset when it changes price. Don’t forget, not only is the
1:1 delta important, but so is choosing the option with sufficient liquidity to
achieve adequate fills quickly when entering and exiting short-term trades.
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