Position and Risk Management Position and Risk Management for Individual Traders Risk management is an important aspect of trading. The amount of capital put at risk for each trade is based on many factors. Market participants [...]

Closing Your Position Closing Your Position After establishing a futures position, the primary decision you will make is when to close the position. To close an open position, you can take the opposite position in the [...]

Placing A Futures Order How to Place a Futures Order Futures orders are placed by using a broker’s trade execution platform. Using the broker of your choice, a trader will place orders using that platform. Traders [...]

Futures Order Types Futures Order Types Orders for futures contracts can be submitted to an exchange with different conditions specified. The conditions are referred to as order types. These conditions allow traders to create orders that [...]

What Happens After Submitting An Order What Happens After Submitting An Order As a trader, when you click to enter an order, there are many processes that occur to have your order actualized before being filled [...]

Getting Your Ironbeam Account Started Getting Started with Your Broker The futures exchange is where futures orders are received, and buy and sell orders are matched, to create “the market.” Futures exchanges have the objective to [...]

Intro to Trading Crude Oil Futures Crude oil is one of the most popularly traded commodity futures contracts. The crude market is known for being especially active. Notorious with investors around the world, crude oil prices experience large [...]

Intro to E-Mini Futures Day Trading The E-Mini futures have become one of the staple methods of day trading over the years due to nearly round-the-clock trading hours, low margin requirements and healthy levels of volatility and liquidity. [...]