futures

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    Result Day Strategy 16 May 2014

    Dear all Being an iron condor trader for quite a while I have been making slow but steady money for last few months. Though last few months were a condor trader's nightmare due to insane VIX spikes and one sided bullish ralley, but sticking with rules still returned as 2% monthly returns. I...
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    A very basic question on option selling (writing)

    Hi! I'm a beginner trader in Nifty Futures and would like to get into Option Selling on Nifty Options. In that context, I have a few questions on Option Selling! How does Option Selling work? I know that to sell a Nifty option, I have to have a combined span and exposure margin of around...
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    trader15 trading diary

    To document my trading results: Focus on documenting : a) Entry Signal : Why i entered a trade b) Exit Signal : What made me exit Dabbled in day trading : Too much time needed in front of screen. Entered Positional (or swing) Trading now ( 2 days to 1 week). Tried entering Nifty...
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    Nifty Futures - Calendar Spreads

    This thread will discuss possible strategies to do calendar spread in nifty futures. NOTE: THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT OPTIONS SPREADS OF ANY KIND : CALENDAR OR ANY. PURELY FUTURES CALENDAR SPREAD THREAD. I was exploring various option spreads strategies and was checking the margin requirements...
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    Which is the Best consultancy for F&O intra day Tips

    Hi All I'm a New Bee here and I'm really fascinated by the way things are being run. I'm into Zerodha only after knowing about it here and trying my hands in F&O currently I'm taking services of Equity Pundit and though that it would be nice if we can share Some good Paid service Consultancy...
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    GANN trading on futures.... good results....

    Hello everyone, I went through some posts on traderji about gann trading. I paper traded for a week with sbi and nifty futures and thought to give it a try realtime, so i started out with nifty, i had fair amount of success with it along with some bad days. What i did was, i took closing of...
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    Expiry day moves

    Why are there large moves in the last hour of expiry day? People say reverse arbitrage is taking place. What does that mean? How can people predict with certainity that the stock/index will move up or down during the last hour of trade? What sort of data do they analyse? How can they be sure...
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    Need an afl file for nifty futures

    hi friends can any one post any afl file for NIFTY & BANK NIFTY futures for intraday as well as SHORT TERM POSITIONAL TRADES... i would be great full if any of you all friends can suggest me an afl with min success rate of 60-70% Thank you
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    Prop Trading House in Dubai.

    "An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends." Benjamin Franklin We are looking for candidates who would go into a part-time 1 year long mentorship program to learn to trade S&P e-mini Futures from home. This strategy is coached by two successful Futures Trader and hardly uses any of...
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    Nifty intraday trading a complete new approach

    Hi I will be positing daily 1 or 2 calls in Nifty future for day trading since Monday My strategy is Daily make 15 points in Nifty (Gross Profit) Net Profit 12 to 13 points after brokerage, Such 1 or 2 calls in day Out of 20 trading day even if we are to make 150 points Gross profit or...
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    Average stop loss percent on your trades and Percent of trades that do not hit SL

    Hello Dear Traders, I am new to futures trading and testing my system in commodities and nifty futures. As i am trying to improvise my system i have some questions which i thought i should share here and get opinions from senior ppl and also new traders. 1) What percent of your total...
  12. internet_fanbboy

    How would you go about trading 20 lacs in Futures for a 4-5% Monthly Return ?

    How would the split between StockFutures, IndexFutures, IndexOptions, Commodities and Currency be ? (Any other instruments ?) What sought of Checks should one put on Trades, Account Balance, Drawdowns, Exposures etc. ? What sought of Money Management approach be used ? Is Averaging a...
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    Need clarification on Fixed Fractional Money Management

    Hi All, I am in the process of learning few aspects before put my money for trading in stock market. From various sources I went through some technical analysis and money management. In money management I am little confused with Fixed Fractional Trading. Lets assume that I am risking is 3%...
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    Commodities trading hours for World markets like LME and CME

    Hi, I am trading in stocks for 4 yrs, but recently started trading in commodities..Can someone help me with the trading hours in various world commodity markets? their opening and closing. I am getting confused with what i saw in the websites for LME and CME.. Really appreciate your help.
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    Trading on BFX USDINR Index Futures

    Has anybody tried trading on the recently launched BFX USDINR Index Futures? This is launched by Bahrain Financial Exchange (www.bfx.bh). It seems to offer a unique way of trading on the Us dollar versus the Indian Rupee currency, since the contract is traded like an index with a direct...
  16. ashutosh.krsrivastava

    How to carry over Futures position

    Hi friends, Please help me as to how to carry over the futures position to next month. I have short position in MINIFTY-30 August. Now today is 29th, what will happen tomorrow. How my position will be carried over, or will it be squared off tomorrow?? If i want to keep my position, then what...
  17. jallanankit

    Beat this one..!!

    Hello all.. I challenge everyone here to beat this report with the same consistency.. With God's grace I have been able to develop a fully mechanical system for BANK NIFTY futures which is averaging around 900 points in the last 6 months.. I also thank TJ for helping me develop this system...
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    Short positions and PUT options

    Hi, Today I was giving a thought on 1. when to SHORT FUTURE, 2. when to buy PUT option, and 3. when to do both ? And vice versa for Longs.
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    Commodity Futures trading process

    Hi Friends, I am a beginner in commodity futures trading arena and need guidance in understanding the basics. here are a few queries? Reatime Data - Are all real time data providers provide same data? i like using the MT 4/5 platform and I find that the data on my terminal does not match...
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    Golden Falcon

    hi friend I expect SBIN will rise tommorow may be with a initial dip. Once it starts going up there may be no stopping:)