Memorial Day 2013 Futures Trading Calendar

Memorial Day is on Monday May 27 for 2013.  Some markets are closed others have early closures.

Here is a list of futures markets that have early closes along with closures and re-open times for  Memorial Day 2013. All times listed will be Central Time (Chicago)

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CME and CBOT Equity Products like emini SP, emini Nasdaq,  mini-Dow, etc.

Friday, May 24
1615 CT- Regular close

Back Bay Futures –Good Friday - Easter Holiday Trading Schedule

Friday March 29th, 2013 is Good Friday and the start of Easter Weekend.  . Here is a list of futures markets that have early closes along with closures and re-open times for Good Friday and Easter week . All times listed will be Central Time (Chicago)

Futures Trading Platform Review of Trade Navigator

Trade Navigator’s parent company Genesis Financial Technologies has been providing trading solutions since 1984.

What are Pivot Points and does anyone care?

In Technical Analysis the term Pivot Point is used in a various ways.
Pivot Points are also referred to as Pivot Analysis.

However, on the Chicago exchange floors, the Pivot Point is defined as the average of the previous session's high, low and settlement prices.

What are Options? Do you want to Learn how to trade Options or at least understand the concepts behind using them?

One method is to trade stock options, but there are other alternative markets.  The CME group has options on futures and they cover market sectors like Agriculture, Energy, Equity Index, FX, Interest Rates, Metals and even Real Estate and Weather.

Back Bay Futures –President’s Day Holiday Trading Schedule

Monday February 18, 2013 is President’s Day.  . Here is a list of futures markets that have early closes along with closures and re-open times for President’s day week . All times listed will be Central Time (Chicago)

CME Equity Products like emini SP, emini Nasdaq, etc.

Firetip is one of the few free futures trading platforms that offer futures, options and charting without having to pay a monthly lease or routing fees.

Firetip also allows you to choose the language you would like the software to display. Choices are English, Spanish, Chinese, German, French and Italian.

Download on Mac or PC

So the first thing I did was download a free demo of Firetip to check out the how the software performs.

The nice advantage I found was that you can run Firetip on a Mac or PC.

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2013 Forecast for S&P-500 Cash Index By Fari Hamzei

Back Bay Futures –Martin Luther King, Jr. Trading Schedule 2013

Monday January 21, 2013 is a trading holiday in the US markets. On Monday, most US futures trading markets have abbreviated trading hours or are closed. Here is a list of futures markets that have early closes along with closures and re-open times. All times listed will be Central Time (Chicago)

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