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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Two Essential Tips For Commodity Day Trading



With the current instability and market uncertainty in equities, a lot of people have been looking to commodity day trading for their investment wants. Before you go-off commodity day trading, I have a few helpful tips to relate to you that should be looked at in close detail.
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1. Establish a Well-Funded Account: This is one of the most unnoticed aspects of commodity day trading. Studies in the past have shown the extra money you have on hand in your trading account, the additional chance of success you will have.

Why is this? You need to have a well-funded account when trading since you have to be able to have a margin for error. Not every trade you make will be a success; you will have losers. In commodity day trading, what matters are limiting your losses and letting the winners run.

2. DO NOT Over-Leverage Your Account: A lot of people who want to start commodity daytrading will start to look into the rock-bottom margins they can get, especially in the e-mini stock index. Some places may be able to give you day trading margins as low as $400.00. It's fine to use this day trading margin, but DO NOT overdo it.

If you are opening trading with a $4,000.00 account size and are using a $400.00 day trading margin, do not look to use up each penny in your account and trade 8 or 9 contracts at one time. This is suicide, and most probable, your account will go into debit fairly soon.

As a common rule of thumb of using influence in trading, I NEVER suggest using more than 20% of your account equity toward one trade, in the case that would be two contracts at a time.

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