The year was 1983. I had been trading stocks for about three years, and had co-traded several futures accounts for clients during the previous year (see my previous post “Other People’s Money”). I have also mentiioned here that I had a background in forecasting – weather forecasting to be specific. I have always been very […]
In May of 1982 the NYSE began trading stock index futures on its index. That year futures began trading on the Value Line Index and the S&P 500. At the time I had never traded futures. Back then everyone referred to them as “commodities”, with corn and hogs and soybeans and gold coming to mind. […]
What is StrategyTrading1? My name is Tom Loffman and I have been actively trading the financial markets for almost 30 years. I have traded just about everything including stocks, ETFs, options, futures and futures options. I have been writing trading formulas (code) to help me make my trading decisions for most of my trading life. […]
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