Emini Futures Trading - characteristics of a good day trading
instrument.
In 1997 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange created a new financial
instrument known as the emini futures contract. It started off
small but now is a fully mature market with excellent liquidity.
Now in 2005, the emini futures contract is an investment vehicle
very popular amongst beginning and advanced traders.
There are several reasons for this:
It needs to be accessible to a wide public. The high margin
costs of trading regular futures, makes it hard for beginning
traders to get started. With the emini, the entry costs are
within normal means of most.
It needs to be liquid, in other words there must be enough
buyers to buy when you want to sell and sellers to sell when you
want to buy. The emini is very liquid.
The low entry cost allows the development of business plans
involving leveraging and increasing the contract size over time.
Through training and education and practise trading trading
skill can be developed.
Many traders only trade for an hour or so per day. They may
spend more time analysing their results, which is recommended
and tweaking their trading system.
There is much to be gained from study and practise in trading
the emini before actual trading is commenced.
Successful investing, is not so much about being right or wrong
or the roll of the dice, but about money management, patience
and discipline to following a system. If you are a gambler then
stay away from futures, for you will surely lose and can lose
big.
The emini will most likely be around for a long time and when
considering futures trading, is a good training ground before
entering into the big contracts.