This article on Futures Trading Platforms is the opinion of Optimus Futures

Why would you want to switch from one futures trading platform to another? Typically, for two reasons: Something about your current platform is not working well or doesn’t match your trading style; or perhaps you are looking for some new technologies or functionalities to upgrade your capabilities and performance.

If you’ve ever had to make such a switch, you’ve probably learned that there can be significant trade-offs. You may gain something with the new platform but always at the expense of something lost with the older one. If what you gain is of more value to you than what you lost, then it’s a winning situation. If not, then you switch back.

But is there an easier

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This article on Order Flow Trading  is the opinion of Optimus Futures

Recently, “order flow” has become something of a buzzword, as if a newfound popularity has grown around one of the oldest of market functionalities, a common-sense mechanism that has suddenly become imbued with a secret that retail traders wish to unlock, thinking that perhaps this, among other things, will be the tactic to give them an edge over other traders who may not have the know-how to use it.

Yes and no.

What is Order Flow Trading?

Order flow trading is a method that attempts to anticipate price movement based on the current orders that are visible on both the buy and sell-side. How many bids are being placed

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This article on Renko Charts is the opinion of Optimus Futures

Sometimes the optimal way to gain an edge in trading is to reduce or eliminate anything that might detract from it. In other words, addition by subtraction. To make an FX analogy, this would be like one national currency strengthening because its counterpart currency is weakening, thus naturally propelling its price higher. In the realm of trading, we’re talking about the balance between signal to noise–reducing one to strengthen the other.

From July 21 to July 3, 2019, the YM 15-minute chart does not give us any substantial indication of clear directionality.

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This article on Fast Execution is the opinion of Optimus Futures

Certain opportunities have a speed threshold. They exist within a given range above or beyond which it starts getting increasingly difficult to catch them.

In the realm of futures trading, moving too slowly can cause you to miss opportunities. But when the difference between “too slow” and “fast enough” is measured in milliseconds, the fine line separating the two degrees of latency can often be non-transparent.

Most often, you simply can’t see it. You can only suspect that latency in execution is to blame.

What I’m about to show you is a simplification of a rather complex topic. But I think you can relate to

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