Winning The Futures Game

Futures trading is said to be high risk.  The leverage available in the futures markets brings the potential for large rewards, but when combined with the volatile nature of the markets, this type of investment is not without risk.  Futures trading is suitable for those with sufficient risk capital and a personality that can accept the degree of risk.  The rewards, however, can be massive.

There are many traders who are extremely successful and make a regular profit from the futures and options markets.  While about 90% of traders who enter the futures markets will lose their risk capital and stop trading the remaining 10% are left to make a large and regular profit.

How do you become one of the elite 10% who win?
In order to learn how to be a winning trader you need to look at what successful traders do.

They all trade with a plan.
They accept that not all trades will be winners.
They analyze every trade and keep accurate records.
They know how much to risk on every trade.
They never make the same mistake twice.

There is a free report available by email entitled
- Why Futures Traders Lose Money
- Basic Futures Trading Skills.
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To lose one trade does not mean that you lose the war.  Minimize your losses and let your profits run and you will do better than the 90% of losers.  Learn from your past mistakes and savor your victories.  This is very easy to say, but hard do.  You've probably heard it said a thousand times.  In reality, however, it requires a knowledge that is only acquired by hard work.

The Challenge

There is a challenge facing traders in the futures and options markets (apart from the markets themselves).  To analyze your trading, and learn from past winners and losers, you are going to need a suitable tool.  A tool which allows you to analyze your trades - letting you to learn from past mistakes.  By keeping only the tactics that allow you to profit you will become one of the winners.

Ask yourself - How do I analyze my trades at the moment?

The Solution

A unique new tool is now available.  The Margin Account Calculator has been created to give you all the information you need to be a successful, winning, trader. It is the ultimate trading tool for today's futures and options trader.

Traders will need a tool that will do the following -

Why do you need software to track your trades?

If you don’t have a dedicated program to record your trading, you're probably using paper and calculator or perhaps a simple spreadsheet to record your trading data.  If so then you're not getting all the information that you need to be successful in today’s financial marketplace.

The Margin Account Calculator was designed specifically to cater for the needs of the individual trader, no matter how large or small the trading account, or how frequently you trade.

There is a FREE demo version of The margin Account Calculator available for you to try.  Test the powerful features for yourself.
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Lets face it - the more time spent recording trades, and calculating profits, the less time you have to spend on the important task of analyzing the markets and creating a trading strategy for the next days trading. All winning traders know exactly what they will be doing the next day, with contingency plans in place to cater for all eventualities. Wouldn’t it be powerful to know

How much to risk on a trade
How many contracts to take
How much you are risking if the trade goes against you
When to take partial profits
When to get out?

A good trading analysis tool should give you all of this information (and more) in an instant.

Options trading

The Margin Account Calculator will cater for all combinations of options and futures trading.

End of day data files

The Margin Account Calculator is compatible with a selection of End of Day data formats, including several FREE sources available for direct loading on the internet.

The data file is loaded into the program and used to update your current portfolio on an End of Day basis.  This is ideal for position trading as well as for day traders who need to update their account information at the end of each trading day.

Live data links

The Margin Account Calculator will allow direct access to live data feeds such as

CQG
Quote.com (qfeed)
Omega server
Futuresource

Using your live data feed - it only takes one click to link your live data directly into MAC. You will be able to see your portfolio updated in real time.

Statement checking made easy

Brokers love to send lots of statements.  Every day you place a trade you will get a statement in the mail the next day.  Checking these statements is time consuming without the right software.  The Margin Account Calculator makes it easy.  In my own trading I would frequently glance at the statement, assume it was OK and file it away.  That’s all right until an error crops up that you let slip by unnoticed.  This happened to me once, before I created The Margin Account Calculator - I thought I was long in the gold market but my broker had sold gold when I wanted to buy!  Needless to say I didn't notice this on my statement until it was too late.  It took me a lot of time to resolve the problem with my broker.  This no longer happens because now I check all of my statements, as soon as they arrive, in next to no time.

How much are you risking?

Do you know how much you are risking at any one moment on all of your open positions?  With MAC you enter the details of all current stop loss orders.  In an instant you can see the status of your account.  A chart will show you the following vital information.

Current Margin Required.
The Open Equity on your trades.
The Account Open Risk.
The Risk Based Funds you have available to trade.

With this information you can easily see what is going on. Money Management is vital to becoming a successful trader. MAC provides you with all the information you need to trade with a winning Money Management strategy.

Slippage analysis

Can you tell how much slippage your trade orders are subject to?  By this I mean the difference between the price an order was placed at (the order price) and the price you were filled at. Click here for an explanation of slippage

Wouldn’t it be powerful to know that a certain market was giving you unacceptable slippage?  With this knowledge you could decide, for example, to change your order tactics (maybe use limit or stop limit orders instead of stop orders).  You might even decide to change markets if the exchange will not accept the order strategy you need.  If you had never analyzed slippage then you would never have known.

What is your Risk : Reward ratio?

Risk reward is the ratio of profit gained vs. initial risk taken on a trade.  Lets say, for example, that your initial stop loss (risk) was placed at $500 and you gained $1000 on the trade.  The risk reward ratio would be 2:1 - i.e. 2 units gained over the 1 unit risked. With MAC you can easily analyze risk reward ratios and this can include all currently open trades as well as the ‘closed risk multiple’ for all closed positions.

Charts

Trading analysis is sometimes easier to visualize with charts of the data that you have entered.  There are many charts available in The Margin Account Calculator to make trade analysis easier to visualize.

Try the Free Demo Version

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The demo is a Full Working Version of the full program, limited to 10 trades. This will allow you to see for yourself the great features included to help your trading analysis.

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About the author

My name is Ian Brant, and as an individual trader in the futures markets since 1996, I found that I required a simple and effective way to record and analyze my trading.  I looked, and found a few programs (3 to be exact) that were reasonably priced.  Unfortunately non of them had all of the features that I required, and so using the popular and powerful Excel spreadsheet I created The Margin Account Calculator (MAC).  I have used MAC to record all of my own trading since that time, and now many others from small individual traders to fund managers from professional traders to CTA's are also finding the valuable benefits of using such a simple to understand and effective, yet powerful, program.

The Margin Account Calculator © is an invaluable tool for any trader in the futures and options markets.