How Can A Futures Trading System Benefit Your Bottom Line?
When the subject of how to invest your money comes up, using a futures trading system can make a world of difference.
What is a futures trading system? First, let’s start with the term “trading system”. A trading system is a set of rules that describe when to buy or sell a basket of or a single security or commodity . These are usually computer-based and to have the ability to run truly in a hands-free manner.
So what in the world are futures? The term futures describes a group of contracts that are traded only on worldwide exchanges. Although these contracts are essentially agreements to buy or sell a given amount of the underlying asset at a date in the future, the simplest way to think of them like stocks that expire on a certain date. A short list of the most popular contracts include: gold, oil, treasury bonds, stock indices (like the Dow), and currencies.
Why would you want to trade futures? Trading futures adds something that a stock-heavy portfolio can never achieve: diversification. It is quite common in the past that as stocks gain in value, futures tend to go down. And when stocks go down, futures tend to gain in value. This pattern holds up a decent portion of the time. Other times stocks and futures can move in completely unique and independent ways. The upside to this is that the futures market is only weakly correlated to the stock market. This is is a big advantage and it help an investor’s portfolio to weather the storm of stock market bull and bear markets.
Secondly, most futures are based on commodities: things like gold, oil, coffee, and wheat. These commodities have a global demand and are immune to the “fads” that can really take stocks for a ride. When prices around the globe for these commodities gain in value, we can pocket a nice profit from these price fluctuations by entering trades on commodities through futures.
So why would you want to use a trading system? Trading systems are superior in a number of ways to a discretionary approach. Discretionary trading involves making non-systematic choices about in what and when to invest. The advantage to using a trading system is that, instead of relying on what “feels right”, you can make informed trade decisions based on patterns with a high historical likelihood of success.
Secondly, and just as important, using trading systems offers a way to control your emotions when making trading decisions. How many times have you sold after a long losing streak and then you see your stock rocket back into the green and make up for all the losses, leaving you reeling? On the other hand, have you bought when the security looked like it would never stop going up, and then see your investment tank in the coming weeks? We are all subjects to “herd mentality”, and this often leads to bad trading choices. Luckily by using systems, we can avoid this faulty thought process and make sound and objective trading choices.
Thirdly, and possibly most important, using trading systems give you more free time. Why not enjoy your time, have extra time to spend with your family, or keep up with your hobbies, rather than agonizing over your portfolio. Because most trading systems are computerized, they run automatically, and this frees up your time to spend how you please. For those of you that aren’t computer savvy, there are many futures brokers that will faithfully execute trades for your chosen system day in and day out for you so you don’t have to be involved in the daily operations at all.
By now I hope I’ve made it clear why using futures trading systems is a smart choice. Don’t guess at your financial future. Trade smart, use futures trading systems!
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