Spread Trading: How to Speculate in Commodities on a Budget

by Andras Nagy

Overview

Spread trading offers many advantages, especially for beginners: easy to trade, nice trends, lower risk, and lower margin requirements.
• Easy to trade - makes spread trading perfect, especially for beginners.
• Low margin requirements -you can trade spreads even if you have a small account ($10,000).
• Low time requirements - perfect if you are a part-time trader or still pre-retirement and working
• Lower risk - use spreads to reduce risk (stress) and become a more relaxed trader.
• Myriads of profitable trends - spreads trend more often and longer than outright futures. You can stay in a trade for weeks without being whipsawed by the noise of day traders and scalpers.
• Best use of your money - spreads are the most cost efficient kind of trading.
• No live quotes or expensive real-time software needed - save hundreds of dollars and reduce your costs.

This book is a color eBook for the tutorial of Spread Trading for the Commodities markets. Spread trading is a little known facet of futures and commodities speculation and it is mainly done by professionals. Now with this affordable digital version it is available for the common trader. The book contains 13 "lessons" covering basic charting, markets and a tutorial on options/spread trading and now Implied Spread Pricing (NEW).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013657052
Publisher:	Ancient Wisdom Publications
Publication date:	11/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

The author had spent the last 20 years working as a futures broker with Refco, a software designer and contract engineer for various investment and trading firms and trading desks. He has been trading and studying the futures markets since the 1987 stock market crash when as a novice stock broker he had witnessed the immense losses people took as investors. His personal business as a broker was damaged so badly that he decided to learn the future's markets and the nuts and bolts of the commodity world. In the library of the Chicago Board of Trade he found an old but very thick book on historical commodity spreads and Seasonal study of these markets going back 15-20 years. That book and the further research of this niche business has stayed with him until today and formed his future speculative efforts.
In the late 80’s after getting a grubstake together he purchased a membership at the Midam1 Futures and later he became a full member at the Chicago Board of Trade. He had traded options on futures and various commodity spreads.
The author has been licensed and registered with the NASD, NFA and CFTC. He now lives in Davis, California.