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Start Small: Active Traders Can Leverage Micro E-mini Options Webinar

Posted by Tradovate on February 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM

Expand How You Trade Micro E-minis

ON DEMAND WEBINAR

 

This is a must-see webinar for futures traders.  Learn how you can leverage the liquidity of the futures market with 1/10th of the cost of standard contracts with Micro Mini Options.  They can help you add control over the risk/reward ratio of your investment, manage risk with a choice of option expirations and expand your trading strategies.  David Lerman, Director of Education at CME Group will walk you thought how active traders can use these instruments to round out their trading strategy.

 

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Discover What Volume Profile & Volume Point of Control is in TPO Profile Charts & How To Use It

Posted by Tradovate on February 2, 2021 at 10:15 AM

 

“Price advertises, Time regulates and Volume confirms or rejects opportunities”  Quote - Jim Dalton 

 

Next to the TPO Profile is a Volume Profile and that's something you may or may not be familiar with. Here we have it set side by side and we do that for contrast so we can see volume as well as TPO profile. The one with letters is the TPO Profile and that is time-based, whereas the other profile is the volume profile and that is built based on how much volume is trading at each price. 

 

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Understanding the History of TPO Profile Charts: Time Based Charting

Posted by Tradovate on January 26, 2021 at 10:00 AM

 

Let’s start with a little background on what TPO charts, and where the letters and numbers came from that make up the TPO Profile charts. On the trading floor, when the traders were in the pit and they had a trading card, each half-hour was called a bracket and when they traded, they would have to write down the letter of the bracket that the trade occurred in. So, each letter was very specific to a half-hour time frame and that's how the letters became the building blocks for the TPO charts.  

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Micro E-Mini Futures

Posted by Tradovate on May 2, 2019 at 9:04 AM

 

 

Finally,  a Micro E-mini product that is right-sized by the CME Group that will be 1/10th the size of the classic  E-mini futures contracts that are geared specifically for the retail trader. The new Micro E-mini will be for the four major indices, S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Russel 200 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. There are so many reasons this makes sense and is long overdue; let's take a look at some of these reasons.

 

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Two Factor Authentication - Protect Your Trading Account

Posted by Tradovate on August 13, 2018 at 4:31 PM

 

Trading futures  involves  assessing and trying to eliminate unnecessary risks to give your trading the best opportunity to profit. Futures traders often spend hours on technical analysis, the best time of day to trade, volume analysis, money management and much more to try to and gain an edge. All of these are prudent as they potentially lower risk.

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