There are a lot of reasons that fear may creep into a trader's mindset: fear of loss, being wrong, missing out, success, and failure. Of these, the one that is the easiest to control is fear of loss....
In overnight trading, the recent trends continued: Crude Oil ($CLZ7) gained $0.60, the S&P 500 ($ESZ7) added nearly 10 points, and the Euro ($6EZ7) lost 40 pips. The only outlier is Gold ($GCZ7),...
The Performance Coaches reentered the markets today with four trades - going short the S&P 500 ($ESZ7) twice and short Crude Oil ($CLZ7) twice. On their first attempts, both trades were stopped out...
Today will be a positioning day as traders look to finalize bets ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting tomorrow and the jobs report on Friday. Gold futures ($GCZ7) are down $5 - continuing a slide...
When Jason G. in Lena, Wisconsin first started trading, he took the same path as most traders: he opened a brokerage account and then proceeded to blow it up.
That experience led him to TopstepTrader...
We're expecting this to be an interesting week in futures markets. Not only did markets last week start to break out above key levels, but the news out this week will help provide a more clear...
The Performance Coaches continued to build on last week's gains, putting together a streak of seven consecutive days of winners in their Trading Combine® challenge. Their account is now at...
Tom F. in Tennessee has been interested in finance for more than a decade, but only recently started trading futures - with the goal of turning it into a profession. At the time he went through the...
The Euro ($6EZ7) is collapsing since yesterday's ECB meeting - with prices falling more than 200 pips in the past 24 hours. Prices really accelerated as futures broke below 1.1750. The next level of...
The Performance Coaches ended their seven-day winning streak with a $287 loss today. The trades just didn't work out how they expected from the start. Their first trade - short the Emini S&P 500...
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