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A Trade in the Moo Cows

This article takes a look at both seasonal and technical viewpoints in cattle futures.

How to Trade the Crush Spread

One offshoot from the extreme volatility that came with the GFC is that many private traders are now looking beyond the simple strategies such as buying shares. This article takes a look at a risk friendly approach to trading Soybean futures.

Video: ProTrade Strategies

This video looks at the spread trading strategies as applied in the ProTrade newsletter. Included examples are trades in Soybeans and Eurodollar futures. This is set at a beginner level.

Video: Recent PTD Trades

This video look at some recent trades from the ProTraderDigest newsletter. Beginner level.

What is seasonal trading?

Question: What is seasonal data? Answer: The ProTrader Digest uses seasonal data in every trade selection. Seasonality refers to a pattern that depends on, or is controlled by, the time of the year. Seasonality appears in many places. For example, sales of Christmas cards logically peak before Christmas. Accounting business peaks around end of financial [...]

Seasonal data reliability

Question: How reliable is seasonal data? Is making money from it all that simple? Answer: To answer the second question first – no it’s not always simple. Anyone that tells you they have a trading method that is fool proof is either a fool or a liar. This is why you need to get good [...]