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My Odd Fetish With Grains

October 9, 2011

My interests are very specific, and I want to gather a small group of people who share my odd fetish with Grains… the seasonal nature of agricultural futures contract prices, that is!

 

Why I’m Fascinated By The Price Of Grains

Trading The Grains is a specialized area within agricultural futures.  The price of Grains are strongly effected by the weather and the over all growing seasons in North and South America.  It is my belief that weather patterns will continue to become more violent over the next several decades, and wild swings in the prices of main food supplies in the world are inevitable.

Preparing To Start A Specialized Forum

Many of you seasonal trading buffs are already active on a range of futures trading forums, and I also want to get to know these places as part of my planning and research in preparing my own online trading community.

As I learning about the benefits and best parts of the biggest forums that focus on futures trading, I’ll have a better idea on what to include when I create the Futures Trading Primer Forums.

After blogging and venturing out into the best futures trading forums to find pockets of discussions about the Grains and seasonal futures trading, I plan to create my own forums and spend a couple years writing and making video blogs about trading Corn, Wheat, Oats and Soybeans.

Futures Trading Buddies

An important part of trading successfully involves learning from like-minded people.

Good ideas are like a fresh glass of water, you need to drink several every day for optimal health – and I’m always looking for good ideas for all aspects of trading, from planning a trade, selecting an entry point, setting a stop loss and any thoughts and experiences with the psychology of trading for profit.

 

 

 

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Futures Trading Primer

October 2, 2011

Welcome to Futures Trading Primer

My focus will be to create a community of traders of all stripes and experience levels.

Please introduce yourself in the comments below!

My personal trading focus

I plan to trade agricultural markets that are known to have a seasonal cycle of planting and harvest each year – items that will be drastically effected by climate change and new weather patterns caused by global warming.

My secondary goal is to scan all the futures contracts and find markets that might be bottoming out and making the classic 1-2-3 Bottom Formation, in addition to testing and monitoring other technical trading patterns and trading signals in the price charts.

I’ll watch 8 to 12 markets and paper trade for a number of months to get my self up-to-speed.

While I paper trade and research the ags over the next few months, I will be

  • developing this blog,
  • installing a forum and
  • sharing some Futures Trading Primer PDF Downloads

Unusual Preparations For Trading

I’ll share the insights I’ve gained through the years of unusual preparations I’ve made towards returning to beginning futures trading, and towards creating this website and trading community.

This is me.

In addition to a small staff of professional article writers, you get a real real fella who is blogging about his futures trading journey.

Sharing the details of my trading preparation help me clarify my thinking and my trading plan, it may help another who is just starting on the path, and sharing my ideas very often provides an avenue where other traders have commented and provided an enlightened perspective, and everyone benefits.

Video Blogging Half-Start

http://www.youtube.com/user/futurestradingprimer

I think I’ll be doing a lot of video blogging as I get ready for trading futures contracts again. Mostly because I’m lazy, and video are so much easier to create than blog posts are to type.

My futures trading video blog half-started in 2010 and I have left those videos up because I really love the predictions I made.

Introduce Yourself

If you are starting out futures trading, or an experienced trader looking to chat about the Ag markets, I’d like to meet you!

Introduce yourself by leaving a comment below!

Or say hello on YouTube!

Watch for the new forums, coming soon!

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