NASDAQ Futures

Here's Why You Should Trade the S&P 500 E-Mini Future
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Barbara_Cohen]Barbara Cohen

Whether you're new to the markets or a seasoned trader, you should be trading S&P 500 E-Mini Future.

Large Institutions and Hedge Funds trade S&P 500 Futures contracts. This way they leverage their money, not having to
invest in any one company but actually able to trade all 500 at once. The S&P 500 E-mini Future is a smaller version of the
exact same futures contracts traded by these large institutions. It is designed primarily for individual traders to trade.

But it follows along exactly with the larger S&P 500 the institutions trade. That way, when the large S&P 500 contract goes
up, the E-Mini S&P 500 goes up along with it.

The E-mini S&P 500 Future offers great potential for traders. The margins for trading the E-mini S&P 500 Future contract can
be as low as $400-$500 per contract, depending on the brokerage firm you use. But low margins are not the only reason
traders are turning away from trading the Stock Market. So if you are tired of being in stocks "for the long haul", if you
are tired of seeing your mutual fund portfolio value cut in half by the sub-prime credit crunch, find out why you should be
trading S&P 500 E-mini Futures.

One of the best things about trading the S&P 500 E-mini Future is leverage. The S&P 500 E-mini Future is based upon the S&P
500 index, or the value of the top 500 stocks traded publically. Wouldn't it be great to be able to trade 500 stocks all at
once, not having to research any one in particular? Unfortunately you cannot trade an index. So the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange created a futures contract based upon this index. Instead of having to buy shares in 500 companies that would cost
a fortune, you can pay $500 per contract. This way it is as if you are trading all 500 stocks at once. Now that is
leverage. Leverage is probably the main attraction of professional traders to the futures market.

Another reason professional traders are attracted to trading the S&P 500 E-Mini Future is the ability to daytrade. For $500
per contract, you can daytrade. What could you buy for $500 if you were trading stocks? And many futures brokers will
allow you to open an account with $2500. Daytrading stocks makes you a "pattern day trader." The regulations required that
you have a margin account of at least $25,000 in order to daytrade stocks.

Not convinced yet? Look, here's another good reason to daytrade the S&P 500 E-mini Future...no research.
You don't need to do hours and hours and hours of research just to find the stock to trade. No more investing hundreds of
dollars monthly in a Real Time stock screener. And most important, no need to have 5 or 6 charts open at the same time.

You can use just one chart. This means you can concentrate on your technical set-ups on just one instrument. You won't
need to open one chart, then minimize it, and then open another chart, etc. Trading just one instrument can often mean that
you minimize risk because your attention is narrowed to just what you are trading.

As we know, each instrument trades differently, requiring its own profit targets and stop losses. Trading the S&P 500 E-
mini future, you'll be able to identify profit targets and stop losses easier because you only need to set them for 1
instrument.

Much of trading is watching highs and lows, hard to do if you are watching a portfolio of 5 or 10 stocks. But if you only
need to remember one closing price, one high or one low, might that not be easier to trade?

Whether you are a fundamental analyst or a technical analyst, the S&P 500 E-mini Future will work for you. With the
institutional traders trading the larger S&P 500, you get the benefit of their research without the cost because you are
trading the same basic instrument they are trading. Are you concerned with overbought or oversold conditions, news
announcements, Federal Reserve interest rate cuts? The S&P 500 E-mini is a perfect tool for taking advantage of those
specific movements. Why? Because the S&P 500 E-mini trades 24 hours a day.

Or are you a master chart technician? If so, the S&P 500 E-mini Future is for you. It works well with moving averages,
macd's, stochastics, pivots, and many other technical tools. If you prefer to look at the markets through a fundamental or
sentiment-based approach, then rest assured that the same techniques for determining oversold markets or markets where
emotions have run to extremes, will apply to e-mini index futures trading.

Like any other trading, whether it is stocks or bonds or options, or currencies, trading the S&P 500 E-mini Future offers
great potential for gain and loss. Before you start trading the Futures market, it is advisable that you learn to trade
it. Take an online course, do a seminar, read a book. You might take a look at Shadowtraders.com. They offer both an
online study course as well as a seminar.

Barbara Cohen is the CEO of Pure Reason, LLC., the parent company of [http://www.shadowtraders.com]Shadowtraders.com. She has been a professional daytrader for over 10
years. She can daytrade stocks, options and futures but she now
expressly trades the S&P 500 E-mini, the 10-Year Treasury Note and the
30-Year Treasury Bond.

All three Futures are offered through the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Barbara has trained hundreds of
students to trade the Futures Market with Shadowtraders' [http://www.shadowtraders.com]online trading
strategies. Barbara frequently hosts the daily online trading chatroom
offered by Shadowtraders.com to its traders.

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Trading Software Stock

I Asked Them - Why Are They Still Day Trading Stocks?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mel_Hardman]Mel Hardman

I was invited to a 3-day seminar in San Francisco (Nov 1-3, 2008) for established stock day traders, traders making their living day trading stocks on their home computers. The seminar was hosted by Golden Gate University and TradeGuider, one of the foremost trading systems developed several years ago for the newly-emerging market of 'e-mini' traders. TradeGuider hopes to attract more stock day traders to its great trading software. Most good chart-reading (software) systems can be used to trade any of the stock market's many financial instruments, besides stocks. Ask any e-mini trader and they'll tell you that nothing (especially stocks) even comes close to the advantages of trading the e-mini. TradeGuider invited me to the seminar just to mingle with the crowd and help get the word out about e-mini's and the TradeGuider software.

Of the 180 traders at the seminar, I didn't find one who was even aware of the 'e-mini' let alone how much more advantage e-mini's offer as compared to ordinary stocks. It's amazing, because the e-mini has been around since 1997, yet those who only know [and think] 'stocks' have somehow never managed to bump into it. I guess myopic vision really is a common frailty of human nature.

Here's just a couple of the advantages: To place a trade on a $20 stock you need $20 cash in your account for every share you want to put in your trade; A 1,000 share trade would require $20,000 cash, plus commissions. You go LONG ... and successfully capture a 50 cent per share profit. The trade has produced for you $500 profit. Your ROI = 2.5%

Now, let's do a trade with e-mini's. You need $500 cash in your account for each e-mini contract you want to place in a trade, e.g. a 5-contract trade would require $2,500 cash. You go LONG again...and your e-mini trade successfully captures 2 points of the S&P 500 Index. Each point is worth $50 per contract. You had placed 5 contracts in the trade (times) the 2 Index points you captured = 10 total points, worth $50 each = $500 profit.

Your ROI on the e-mini trade = 20%! That's ten times greater! And, you only needed $2,500 verses $20,000 for the stock trade! You could have been in the trade as little as ten minutes.

Stocks don't even come close to e-mini's when it comes to 'bang for the buck'.

If these numbers catch your interest and you would like to hear more about trading e-mini's, you'll find several hours of free information on my web site and blog, listed below.

Incidentally, there's a good reason why the public has never heard much about the 'e-mini'. Mutual fund managers and stock brokers will never tell you anything about e-mini's because they know you'll want to do your own trading yourself. It was designed for first-timers in the stock market, a financial trading instrument that ordinary folks could afford to learn to trade with. Check it out. Give e-mini trading a shot. You'll never look back... especially if you are an experienced stock trader. http://www.melhardman.com (Mel'ls web site) http://www.emini-forex-trader.com/forex-emini-trading/ (Mel's blog)

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Trading E-minis

7 Reasons Why Trading "E-Mini's" is the Best Home Business Idea Ever!
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mel_Hardman]Mel Hardman

Maybe you're a young person looking for a career; or, a neat way to make a few extra bucks working part time. Maybe you're a little older, with family responsibilities now demanding more than your current pay check will cover. (Time to find that 'second job'!) Maybe you're retired...and bored with golf and shuffleboard and maybe even not making it on social security. Regardless of your age or stage in life, a little extra INCOME is always a pleasant surprise.

Working from HOME has long had appeal, especially to folks who yearn to be 'their own BOSS'. With the advent of the personal computer and especially [now] with the maturing of the Internet, working from home has taken on all kinds of great new possibilities. During the last two years [especially], ways of making money on the Internet have seen a dramatic rise--some have discovered ways to make literally 'fortunes' in amazingly short periods of time.

While many approaches are legit and bonafide, the Internet has also given rise to a great number of scams and self-proclaimed guru's who readily sell the 'dream' to unsuspecting customers...telling them that all they've got to do is put up a web site and the world will break their door down to shower money on them! Unfortunately, a lot of folks have had their wallets considerably lightened by those self-proclaimed guru's and ended up no closer to having a good web site, and even further, unaware of just how difficult it is to get any traffic to a good web site ...even after it's built.

May I tell you about my own experience pursuing my dream of owning my own home business? I'm just an 'ole wildlife photographer (actually, a producer of wildlife TV shows - Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and others). I've enjoyed a long and successful career. It took me to many beautiful and interesting places worldwide. It made it possible for me to 'dabble' in the stock market over much of my adult life.

In early 2002, I accidentally met a young lady who asked me if I knew about trading "e-mini's"? I had never heard of an "e-mini". She introduced me to what I soon realized was the best-kept secret ever in and about the stock market. I instantly realized that here was the perfect vehicle for the most ideal-home business one could imagine. I would like to share what I discovered with you and give you 7 great reasons WHY I make that statement. I will do so....devoting a separate post to each of the 7 reasons.

Just as a 'teaser'.... my little 2-hr a day home e-mini trading business can generate a 6-figure annual income starting the first year. (I maybe shouldn't have used the word "my" because I have no unique claim on it; anyone can do it....if they know how.)

Come on back...and let me share the 7 Reasons with you. I guarantee you'll learn something new.

Mel Hardman http://www.melhardman.com (Mel's web site) http://www.eminiforextrading.com (Mel's blog)

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NASDAQ Futures

Trading E Mini Futures For Big Profits
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kade_Gillingham]Kade Gillingham

The E Minis are US stock indexes such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones and NASDAQ. They are traded electronically using a trading platform on your computer. Daily Trading on the US E Minis exceeds $USD40 Billion dollars per day. It was launched by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and is now regarded by leading financial experts as one of the most successful financial product ever launched.

Trading E Mini futures contracts has become increasingly popular over recent years, mainly due to the fact the are highly leveraged very liquid. The potential for big profits is enormous, however as with any trading, caution needs to be taken when it comes to money management. Returns of 5-10% per day are not uncommon in these markets and can easily be achieved using the right techniques and staying disciplined with your trading plan.

Some of the advantages of trading E Minis are:

Pay just $5.00 USD round trip commissions
No market makers
No gaps during market hours
70:1 leverage
2 points = 10% ROI in minutes
No over night positions held
Trade long or short

The most active parts of the day are the first two hours and often the last two hours. So depending on what type of lifestyle you live you could easily trade just one of these periods and still make a nice living! Minimum account size for trading E Minis is just $1000 US which makes it easy for anyone to get started quickly, and with 5-10% return on investment it won't take you long to build your account up.

Interested in trading the E Minis? Go to http://www.doorways2success.com/eminitrading - to receive your FREE DVD!

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Trading Seminar

TRADING SEMINAR

A quick letter from one of Australia's truly amazing trading success stories

The E-minis Trading Seminar has helped enable thousands of Australians and New Zealanders and now people worldwide, on their track to trading success and wealth creation. At the Eminis Trading Seminar you will learn how everyday investors are following in the footsteps of professional traders to learn proven trading techniques and strategies that have taken years and hundreds of dollars to develop.

Dear Friend,
I want to ask you an extremely bold questions. What if you could be making US$500 to US$1,000 a night and you could take all the holidays you want, wherever you want, on the spur of the moment...pay off your mortgage in no time flat...send your kids to the best schools..update to a brand new car on a whim...surprise your family with outrageous gifts....own holiday homes in every part of the world...and become the hero of your 5 favourite charities. Without even breaking a sweat. And that's just in an average year!

I don't mean to tease you so crudely. It's just that I'm excited by the prospect of what I'm about to reveal. It sounds too good to be true, I know. But in the course that's to follow, I intend to prove it to you.

I will show you how you can take advantage of this opportunity quickly, easily, and without any risk. I'll demonstrate how others have been making 2 or 3 times what they were, in less time than you ever thought possible - and how to secure this information for a fraction of what it normally could cost.

You'll get all the details in a moment. But first, let me introduce the man who can show you the way to true financial freedom.

A Successful E-minis Trader came to realise some time ago that there may be some secret for a formula, some unknown strategies, that mean the difference between the average person working 40+ hour week wage that is barely enough to pay bills and those elite few who have more money than they could ever need. He was determined to find out what that difference was and to achieve Absolute Financial Freedom. This is when he stumbled across trading strategies such as Trading E minis.

Within less than a few years he had succeeded - a hugely successful trader. He has helped make this information widely available to everyone via E-minis Global and is able to teach the same system he used to become successful. He has now educated more than 3,000 average Australians and New Zealanders and now people worldwide. You can be next, no matter where in the world you live.

Wealth Strategies - A simple way ordinary people can make a lot of money!

By learning how this exclusive program will blow the lid on what you currently understand about making REAL money from trading. In fact, here is just a glimpse of what this E-mini's Trading Seminar will reveal to you:

How smart investors have replaced their income in less than 12 months without really having to work at all!

How smart investors generate an extra US$500 to US$1,000 a night in less than a few short hours. (It sounds unbelievable I know, but you actually see how it's done - can you really afford NOT to know this essential wealth-building information?)

How to think like a millionaire (because the funny thing is - when you change your thoughts, you change your results!)

Why 93% of Australians and individuals in other wealthy Western Countries are either slaves to the bank or slaves to their jobs (usually both) - and how to make sure that this doesn't become your life story.

Why getting HIGH returns does not have to mean taking HIGH risks (and why the average person will never understand this without educating themselves financially).

Here's what else you'll discover from the E-minis Trading Seminar

Why E-minis Global is even bothering to share this most secret wealth building strategy with you (the true agenda revealed - and it has nothing to do with making money from you!)

How smart investors make 'investing' their hobby (but a hobby that can return from thousands of dollars or even replace your current income for a few hours a week).

How to create both the lifestyle you want and the wealth.

Why 96% of people living in Western Countries end up dead or dead-broke by age 65. (Are you willing to make sure this doesn't happen to you? Why wait til you're 65 and ready to kick the bucket before you experience "the good life"? You could have it now.... or at least very soon - E-minis Trading Seminar will show you!)

Why smart investors minimise the risk of investing (so that they can sleep easy at night - even if the market goes down...they don't have to worry!) As taught by licensed E-minis presenters.

The incredible simple way smart investors trading e minis make money EVEN when the market goes down!.... as it doesn't matter to them if the market is up or down.

How does that sound? Pretty amazing, right? Well the good news is this is only a fraction of what his team of speakers cover in the E-minis 2 hour Trading Seminar and Webinars, including some of the most recent techniques to maximise returns from trading e minis.

However, I've twisted the CEO's arm and (reluctantly) he's come to the party (he knows how valuable this information is and he's hesitant to just give it away for less - I can't blame him). Regardless, he's agreed to let me offer a limited amount of 2 hour E-minis Trading Seminars, normally worth $495, for free. Yes free!

Get ready for something special

What will be revealed to you in the E-minis Trading Seminar - including e-minis being one of the "hottest wealth strategies of the decade" could truly change the way you live forever....in a very short time and it is free for the first 150 bookings.

Let me ask you something

Could you get excited about earning an extra US$500 to US$1,000 a night trading the E-minis Markets?

Can you see the value of understanding this exclusive information? Are you looking forward to taking control of your life, having the power to decide how much money you make... AND how much you work?

Doesn't it make sense to discover the income generating strategies that few people know? (only 4% of Australian's and New Zealanders and those living in other wealthy western countries retire financially independent - don't you owe it to yourself to make sure that you're one of the few with the peace of mind of having as much money as you need?)

How important would it be to you to be able to provide an exciting future for yourself....your partner...and your family, where you have a lot of money coming in, for very little physical effort, isn't this what you've always dreamt about?

Here is what you'll learn:

What are E-minis and why trading them has become so popular?

A step-by-step, simple, powerful and precise winning strategy.

How to achieve success in live simulated trading before trading with money.

How to trade professionally full or part time, anytime, anywhere.

How to succeed with 100% online interactive training.

Gain confidence and experience trading E minis. The consistent trading range of the E-mini markets along with their high volume and leverage, offers a perfect trading environment for short term trading. Each day, multiple high potential trade opportunities occur. Did you know you can profit whether the market goes up or down.

Taking advantage of these opportunities is easy using the simple, powerful and precise training solutions. Whether you want to begin a career as a professional trader or become a better trader by managing your financial assets more efficiently, we can help you become successful as a e-minis trader.

This 2 hour Free Trading Seminar is your first step to an exciting E-minis lifestyle and learning how investors can make US$500 to US$1,000 a night or more trading the E mini market.

Trading E-minis

Reason #2 Why E-Mini Trading is Such a Great Home Business
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mel_Hardman]Mel Hardman

In our Reason#1 article we pointed out how easy it is to trade e-mini's compared to investing in or trading stocks: You never have to do any research. Also, you can very effectively and profitably trade e-mini's with so much LESS money than it takes to be involved in stocks. That brings us to our Reason #2 Why E-mini's are such a great little Home Business idea: the low start-up cost for trading e-mini's.

All you really need is a good computer and a high speed Internet connection (which most homes already have). And, of course, a little knowledge. If you visit my web site and spend a couple of hours there studying all of the free information I give you, you'll know enough to start practice trading e-mini's right away. You'll find a 'road map' there that carefully lays out for you, step-by-step, exactly what you'll need (tool-wise, i.e, software) and how much money you'll need to plan for, once you are ready to open an e-mini trading account and start trading real money. (You can 'paper trade', i.e., practice almost for free...for as long as you want.)

I don't think you could ever find any business, let alone a 'home business', that you can learn and prepare yourself so effectively and inexpensively for...with so little operating capital required once you are ready to go. Yet, a home business that you can generate real professional-level income from ...even in your first year. And, a business that you can be most effective at by limiting yourself to working it just a couple of hours a day!

I know... this probably sounds like I must be smokin', but I'm not. I started dabbling in stocks right out of high school, then switched to trading stock options about 20 years ago. In early 2002, another e-mini trader whom I met accidentally, asked me if I knew about trading e-mini's. I had no idea what she was even talking about. But what she described to me really caught my attention and interest.

I immediately closed my film production company I'd run for over 25 years ...to devote my full attention to my new career - trading e-mini's.

Since then, I've had a daily goal of making $500 for myself, spending a couple of hours each morning at my computer. Another great feature - thanks to the Internet, I can do it when I wish...from anywhere in the world!

In my next article.... I'll explore with you the low overhead for e-mini trading. (Reason #3) why e-mini trading is such a great little home business idea.

Mel Hardman http://www.melhardman.com http://www.emini-forex-trader.com/blog

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Trading Software Stock

Why can't trading software make the final decision for you and ensure profitability?

Trading software, or black boxes, are based on past market data that is used to predict future market results. It's like using yesterday's weather to predict todays weather, not very dependable. The market dynamics are always changing and the market never repeats itself exactly. Software-based trading programs don't stay profitable and often offer huge losses. If software-based trading programs could dependably and consistently make profitable decisions, banks or corporations with billions of dollars in assets and resources could develop such software and use it to trade. Trading software stock tools are only useful to assist in crunching numbers and sorting data. The only way to become a successful trader is to learn to trade for yourself, and this is where E-minis Global can help you.

For more Information or Free DVD on E-minis, Visit: http://www.eminisglobal.com.au/cmd.php?af=797826