Emini Futures Day Trading Blog

There are many differences between trading forex and eminis. The first thing is fees, you’re looking at at least 4$ for a “round-trip” trade with a basic emini contract. With FX you just pay the spread, in many cases only 1 or 2 pips on the Euro and more for exotics, maybe 4 pips on [...]

Trading the emini’s has many advantages over trading stocks, commodities and foreign exchange (forex) markets.
To get started in trading stocks and commodities generally requires an account size of $10,000 where emini trading only requires a minimum of $2,000. Eminis are miniature-sized futures contracts you can make a considerable amount of money from very small [...]

Sometimes in trading we get ourselves into sticky situations by not being aware of the daily market conditions . The following are the 4 Market Conditions:

Stabile & Quiet

Stabile & Volatile
Trending & Quiet
Trending & Volatile

During the stabile periods, the market is in a trading range (70-80% of the time). In the trending & quiet, there are [...]

These words from Mark Douglas (an expert in trading psychology) caught me offguard. The way he said it “It’s ALL in your mind, trading is a mental game”.  Sometimes in life we think we understand something only to find out later that the truth was much bigger than we were able to absorb.
I highly recommend [...]

There are lots of strategies for trading eminis available on the market today although many of them unfortunately promise the world and don’t come close to delivering.
Before you invest your resources and time into a strategy be sure to investigate fully who you are learning from. If the teacher is not a professional trader, don’t [...]

Simply put, emini futures are small (mini) futures contracts which have always been traded electronically (e). The most popular eminis are the S&P 500 Fututes, Dow futures and the Russel 2000 futures.
Unlike stock accounts with higher account minimums, emini brokers can open your account with only $2000. But before you rush off to get an [...]