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BOOK YOUR FREE STRATEGY SESSION NOW >>Hi guys, hi from Andrea Unger! Today, I’d like to talk a bit about the Grains Market and, more in detail, about the futures on Grains.
The futures Grains are very interesting, as they allow you to develop interesting strategies, especially Soybeans. This market is open to many different approaches, including trend-following, counter-trend and bias strategies.
Corn, too, is very interesting, although for different reasons. Corn doesn’t have a large dollar expansion during the day, which means that dollar volatility during the day is not that high. Thus, you can trade it with tighter stop-losses.
Of course, this feature can be very useful to those people who can dedicate only a small capital to trading. In fact, you can easily trade Corn with a stop-loss as low as, let’s say, $400. And if you measure $400 on a $20,000 account, you see it has a small impact in percentage. So, you can actually adapt this to a risk profile that isn’t extremely aggressive.
As said, Soybeans is good for many kinds of approach. On Corn, on the other hand, it’s a little bit harder to find something that works. Normally, you’ll end up with a medium-term trend-following strategy, which is fine. However, keep in mind that you might obviously face prolonged periods of drawdown in these types of strategy. So, if that’s fine with you, perfect, but if you don’t feel comfortable with these kinds of strategy, consider that Corn might not be your first choice.
Wheat is a nice market, but I couldn’t find many edges on it. Let’s say that this market moves in a bad way. I mean, I'm not saying that Wheat is guilty of my failures, but I believe it’s not easy to find good trading systems that work on it, or at least I’m not able to do so. If you are able, perfect; send me the systems and I’ll put them to work!
In general, I think Wheat isn’t the first market you should focus on when you start your adventure in the trading systems development environment, as it doesn’t respond well to the most common movements that you might use.
Soybean Meal and Soybean Oil are two minor markets. I don’t think it’s necessary to focus on them, as there’s already much to do with the three main markets - Soybeans, Corn and Wheat. However, they can be useful if you want to increase diversification.
As you know, diversification is extremely important. I always say it’s the first thing to consider when you want to trade for a living. By the way, this doesn’t mean that you have to look everywhere.
These two markets are also part of the Grains market. They are liquid enough, although not as Soybeans, Corn and Wheat, but it’s not that easy to develop systems on them.
If you’re looking for some trend-following, medium-term systems on Soybeans or Corn, remember that it’s not that easy. You should also forget Wheat and keep it only as a second choice, because it’s not the best market out there to develop systems on.
That’s it. Stay tuned for more markets.
Ciao from Andrea Unger!
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BOOK YOUR FREE STRATEGY SESSION NOW >>Andrea Unger here and I help retail traders to improve their trading, scientifically. I went from being a cog in the machine in a multinational company to the only 4-Time World Trading Champion in a little more than 10 years.
I've been a professional trader since 2001 and in 2008 I became World Champion using just 4 automated trading systems.
In 2015 I founded Unger Academy, where I teach my method of developing effecting trading strategies: a scientific, replicable and universal method, based on numbers and statistics, not hunches, which led me and my students to become Champions again and again.
Now I'm here to help you learn how to develop your own strategies, autonomously. This channel will help you improve your trading, know the markets better, and apply the scientific method to financial markets.
Becoming a trader is harder than you think, but if you have passion, will, and sufficient capital, you'll learn how to code and develop effective strategies, manage risk, and diversify a portfolio of trading systems to greatly improve your chances of becoming successful.
