How to trade hot commodities like natural gas, oil and gold - We should see big moves in the coming weeks as gas bottoms, and oil & gold breakout or breakdown. A lot of money is going to be exchanging hands quickly and the key is to be on the receiving end of things. Below are some charts showing where these commodities are trading.
How to Trade Gold
How I trade gold is relatively straight forward. I use a simple trading model which allows me to identify the down side risk for a potential gold trade. I also use the same model for trading oil, gas and silver.
Beyond finding good entry points, it is crucial to know when to take some profits off the table. The weekly gold chart clearly shows gold trading at a resistance level which means there are going to be more sellers than buyers, hence the reason it is called resistance.
To trade gold I enter with my low risk entry points and sell half my position once I reach a resistance level. Today for example gold moved up into this long term resistance level and then started to head south. We took some profits off the table before gold dipped in the late afternoon for a healthy gain. Taking profits is a must or you’ll simply hold onto winning positions until they eventually turn into a loser.
How to Trade Crude Oil
Trading crude oil is exciting because it moves much faster than gold. How to trade crude oil with low risk can be done by using my simple trading model which is a combination of indicators like momentum, support & resistance, volume, price patterns and media coverage. All these things combined allow for highly accurate trades with minimal down side risk.
Crude oil looks ready to make a big move. The odds are pointing to higher prices because oil has a multi month bullish price action and the falling US dollar helps increase the price of oil. I can see oil breakout and rally into the $95 per barrel level if things go that way in the coming weeks.
How to Trade Oil (USO Fund)
USO tracks similarly to the price of crude oil and it provides some great trades for both swing traders and day traders. I focus on trades that bounce off support with low downside risks, which occur on both the daily and weekly charts.
How to Trade Natural Gas
Natural gas is looking ready to bottom here. If you go back to the early 90’s the $2-3 range is a major support level. While I don’t generally try to pick bottoms, there are some signature price patterns and volume patterns that have proven to be very profitable for catching sharp bounces.
How to Trade Natural Gas
The daily chart shows a perfect waterfall sell off with the price of natural gas dropping to a long term support level. This pattern combination shows panic selling which indicates a short term bottom is close.
The extreme panic selling and sharp decline in price, removes much of the down side risk. Scaling into a position over a few days, if the price continues to move lower, is important for this strategy to work its magic.
The black horizontal lines show my resistance levels for taking profits. If the price were to drop below $10 then I would exit the second half of the position to lock in the rest of the profit.
How to Trade Commodities Conclusion:
Trading commodities is very simple with all the ETF’s and funds available. The energy funds like oil and gas have some issues with following the prices of their underlying commodity but I do not find it a problem with my style of trading.
I would really like to know the entire story about what is going on with the oil and nat gas funds which have crazy contango issues??? Why do other commodity funds like GLD (gold bullion) and SLV (silver bullion) not have these issues?? Why can’t they make a fund which follows oil and gas properly? All I know is that there are a lot of dishonest people in the financial industry taking honest hard working peoples money.
How to Trade Gold Stocks Online
Learn how to trade gold stocks online and start bringing in some extra income. There are many different ways to make money with gold. You can buy gold bullion, bars, or coins directly, or buy gold stocks and even buy stock in gold mines
- Step 1
Open Trading Account
Open an online tradingaccount with a reputable broker. Try Scottrade, Zecco, Trade King, Ameritrade, Charles Schwab or another stock trading broker with a good reputation.
Open a margin account. Opening a margin account normally requires a deposit of at least $2,000. It is important to open a margin account even if you never use the margin (loan) because with a margin account you will not have to wait for trades to settle. Your other option is a cash account, but with a cash account you must wait three days for the settlement of each trade.
Read all of the policies and rules of the company that you use. Find out what fees you will incur for each transaction. - Step 2
Research Stocks
Invest your money in gold by buying gold stocks, gold mine stocks, ETF (Exchange TradedFunds ), mutual funds or bonds. You will want to research the differences of each investment before you put your money at risk. Every investment has a certain amount of risk. Nothing is a sure deal.
Always research every trade even if the stock is recommended by a friend, you still need to know what you are getting into.
Gold mines can be a very safe investment as well as mutual funds that are heavy in gold investments.
Knowing how to trade gold stocks online will help you to bring in some passive income for your family. - Step 3
Seek Help
Look for a website that will offer you daily, weekly, monthly and yearly stock advice. There are many websites that offer free advice for long term investments and short term investments.
Each time you place a trade, you will need to understand how the trade will be executed. Learn about buy and selling stocks by placing different orders such as limit, market and stop loss orders.
Have a plan before you trade. Here is a good trading mantra that you should follow daily "plan your trade, trade your plan". That means that you should not when you will sell at the time you buy or sell short. Then you should follow the plan that you made.
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