Futures Trading Strategy
All successful futures trading involves a three-part formula:
- A high-probability risk/reward strategy
- Money management
- Decisive trade “adjustments”
AG Futures Trading provides all three of these elements in his proprietary trading techniques which are reserved exclusively for his clientele.
LET’S TALK STRATEGY
This style of trading is commonly referred to as trend-following swing-trading. This strategy strictly follows the trend for each of the markets he trades, and he only places trades in the direction the market is trending. Our service doesn’t “buck” the trend. If the gold market is in an up-trend, then “buying long” is the appropriate choice for this strategy. If sugar, or wheat is trending down, then “selling short” is in order.
As elementary as this may sound, many traders don’t get this right. They want to trade every zigzag or wiggle-waggle the market makes. That is exactly how amateur traders get stung. Get hurt too many times in this business, and you’re out of the game.
Once there is in a trade, you can expect each trade to last an average of four days. Some trades can last as short as a day to as long as a month (like gold did late summer of ’09) depending on the strength, or weakness, of the trend.
MONEY MANAGEMENT
The markets have been hand-picked according to each individual trader / investor’s account position size.
Agricultural Futures Trading Portfolios
These hand-picked agricultural markets ensure portfolio diversification, and include a disciplined form of money-management by providing amongst the highest rated profit factor ($wins vs. $losses) markets he trades, with markets that demand some of the lowest initial margin required by your broker. If you’re already paying low commission for futures trading, and/or like your current broker relationship, that’s fine! But we know commissions and fees are to the trader / investor just as weather is to a foot soldier.
DECISION-MAKING BEFORE A DECISION MUST BE MADE
Before the very last market has closed for the day’s trading session, AG Futures Trading already preparing it’s trading plan for the next day. The plan is written and posted on the website for all to see well before the first market opens.
Once the market opens, all decision making is long over and orders are placed within seconds above / below the market depending if we are currently in a trade, or looking to initiate a trade. There is no hesitation. Once trades are initiated, protective stop losses (which are also predetermined) are placed. After exiting a trade, there is usually no re-entering that same day.
There is no “guessing” involved, or picking-and-choosing which signals to take – take them all with the trend. The trading program will have losing trades…so why guess how the market may behave tomorrow, or pick-and-choose based on emotion allowing yourself to be more wrong more often with the chance of eventually the strategy becoming impotent? Nobody can predict the future, nor can pickers-and-choosers ever become consistently successful – or professional - at trading.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Accounts must be properly funded to have the very best chance for success in the marketplace. ALL professional traders ebb and flow with making money in the markets via winning trades, and then giving back with losing trades. The only way an investor can make money in the marketplace is to be on the right side of the trend…most of the time. The niche is to identify these trends once they emerge, and ride them like a surfer takes to a wave until the very end of the trend. It is at the very end-of-the-trend that a completely new trend develops, but still looks like a pullback within the original trend! That is when mostly ALL trend traders get caught blindsided and are most likely to give money back to the market. It’s inevitable. The only way the investor can prepare for the worst is to be properly funded so if starting the trading program at the absolute worst time, that investor should have the best chance in surviving the drawdown period that occurred following the trading program’s peak in equity.
Finally, all new trading should begin at the beginning of a new month as each month has its own unique cycle. It is also easier to keep track of the trades on a monthly time frame as the trading records are summarized on a monthly basis, then quarterly, and then of course, yearly. By starting at the beginning of a new month, it will be easier to follow along and compare the official trades with your own trading account statement from your broker.
Thanks for the opportunity to present this trading strategy!
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