Welcome to Futures Trading Primer
My focus will be to create a community of traders of all stripes and experience levels.
Please introduce yourself in the comments below!
My personal trading focus
I plan to trade agricultural markets that are known to have a seasonal cycle of planting and harvest each year – items that will be drastically effected by climate change and new weather patterns caused by global warming.
My secondary goal is to scan all the futures contracts and find markets that might be bottoming out and making the classic 1-2-3 Bottom Formation, in addition to testing and monitoring other technical trading patterns and trading signals in the price charts.
I’ll watch 8 to 12 markets and paper trade for a number of months to get my self up-to-speed.
While I paper trade and research the ags over the next few months, I will be
- developing this blog,
- installing a forum and
- sharing some Futures Trading Primer PDF Downloads
Unusual Preparations For Trading
I’ll share the insights I’ve gained through the years of unusual preparations I’ve made towards returning to beginning futures trading, and towards creating this website and trading community.
This is me.
In addition to a small staff of professional article writers, you get a real real fella who is blogging about his futures trading journey.
Sharing the details of my trading preparation help me clarify my thinking and my trading plan, it may help another who is just starting on the path, and sharing my ideas very often provides an avenue where other traders have commented and provided an enlightened perspective, and everyone benefits.
Video Blogging Half-Start
http://www.youtube.com/user/futurestradingprimer
I think I’ll be doing a lot of video blogging as I get ready for trading futures contracts again. Mostly because I’m lazy, and video are so much easier to create than blog posts are to type.
My futures trading video blog half-started in 2010 and I have left those videos up because I really love the predictions I made.
Introduce Yourself
If you are starting out futures trading, or an experienced trader looking to chat about the Ag markets, I’d like to meet you!
Introduce yourself by leaving a comment below!
Or say hello on YouTube!
Watch for the new forums, coming soon!
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I’ll introduce myself – the creator of this blog! This domain has been developed and changed and restarted many times over the years. Now, after years of practicing my chart reading, web building, video making and social media skills on a hobby site called Lumbridgecity.com – I’m ready to re-focus on preparing for Futures Trading.
I’m no trading guru. In fact, just the opposite. When ever I want to learn about a subject, I build a website about it. This time I’m building a community around the topic and you are invited to join, share, and learn with the rest of us!
To Your Success,
Doug
Hi Doug. I have been trading futures for about 2 years. I recently opened an office with the intention of getting a small group of serious traders to share the space with.
Can you advise me on a way to connect with other like minded individuals in the North Jersey area. You actually started your own blog as a means to further your trading career. Very admirable and impressive. I would greatly appreciate any imput from you.
Thank you & Regards,
Dave
Hi Dave,
There are two easy steps I’d recommend to connect with other traders in your geographical area: Set up a twitter account and prepare to feature it on your business card. Find local groups on Meetup.com and start attending – or create your own group… and hand out your business card to everyone. Meet people in person, connect up on twitter, repeat. Stay on message with your twitter account, and use the hashtag #northjersey. Within two or three months you’ll have attracted a few really good connections!
Let me know how it goes Dave!
To Your Success,
Doug