2/27 Day Trading Futures

Futures day trading can be extremely difficult. There are several major markets, to act for him. The first is the trend is your friend. When day trading futures positions that you want to start going with the trend. Imagine a rock rolling down a hill, you do not want in advance, be that, because the dynamics of this rock the potential to have to destroy it. It's the same concept in futures trading day. If there is no clear trend for the day in a direction that you take the path of least resistance and do not want to fight the trend. Just as you recognize the trend for the day can, so you can be on the right side? Here are two tools to help you do just that. 　　I tick, tick you tick all 　　A tool used to determine whether the bulls or the bears are in control of the market, while day trading futures is short on the NYSE up / down or the rate of tick tick. On most platforms, ticks can be found with the following symbol $ TICK. $ Tick represents the number of shares that are smaller than the number of stocks that go down the New York Stock Exchange rise. If the tick bed $ 500, which means that it is more than 500 shares, from there along the New York Stock Exchange. Want to keep in the trade in futures tick days you use a few rules in mind. First, you want to read or block + - 600 are nothing but noise. Secondly, to see + or - 800 ticks reading is a sign of a trend. What is envisaged is that ticks always hit + or - 800 Thirdly, want you, the first + or Fade - 1000 readings tick, but only the first. If several + or -, 1000 readings start tick is a clear trend and you just want a long or short position in this sense tick-term trading. 　　Volume Spread Analysis 　　The second tool I use to identify the Intraday trend, while the future of day trading in order to compare the volume until the volume is also known as volume expansion. When a stock to increase by a penny or more than its last closing price and the volume of trade and trade volume. When a stock lower trading volume by one cent or more of its last closing price of reducing the volume of the volume. By combining these two numbers is the volume expansion. You can mean the amount of propagation time of each card, and I prefer 5thThis is a valuable tool for day trading futures, especially for the business closed, because you'll quickly see whether the bulls or the bears have taken control over the market all day. The symbol for the expanded volume is $ VOLSPD Tradestation and thinkorswim platform is $ $ oval-D Vol. 　　While day trading future is a challenge may be easier when you can only drink on the pattern of Intraday trading. The tools in this section can be used as a starting point in your trading career.