Kettel Always Profit

While traders constantly search for new and improved methods on their quest for the ‘holy grail’ trading system, they often overlook the most significant element that dictates their success. This inherent element is pacing. Proper pacing means you flow...

One of the best kept secrets in trading is that of reduced margin spreads.  You cannot name a trading method that provides more safety or a greater return on margin than does a reduced margin spread, while also being one of the least time-consuming ways...

Attempting to trade in “thin” illiquid markets is one of the surest ways to encounter serious stop running and bizarre price movements. However, other than occasional problems with getting filled, spread trading does not suffer from a lack of liquidity...

There are so many advantages to trading reduced margin spreads that I hope I don’t run out of room here before I can tell you all of them.  Let’s begin with return on margin, i.e., yield.
Yield:  As I write this, the margin to trade an outright futures position in crude oil is $4,725, whereas a spread trade in crude oil requires only $540, only 11.4% as much. If crude oil  futures move one full point, that move is worth $1,000.  If a...