Available only with a Premier Membership, the Futures Trading Guide is a hypothetical trading system which takes a Buy position when the shorter term 9-Day Moving Average closes above the longer term 18-Day Moving Average, and takes a Sell position when the 9-Day closes below the 18-Day. The profit is based on the point value of one futures contract from the Last price compared to the settlement price on the start date of the signal.
Using this page, you can see hypothetical profit or loss that would have resulted following the Buy/Sell signals given by the strategy for a specific futures contract.
Current Trade Details
Listed at the top of the page, you will find the current open trade details, including a chart showing the 9-Day and 18-Day Moving Averages. Details of the open trade include:
Technical Analysis
To give you a better sense of the trend strength, a table is included with technical data:
- Volume - The total number of shares or futures contracts traded for the day.
- 5D Avg Volume - The average number of shares traded over the last 5 days.
- 20D Avg Volume - The average number of shares traded over the last 20 days.
- 50D Avg Volume - The average number of shares traded over the last 50 days.
- 9D Range - A moving average of trading ranges over a 9-Day period. Regarding range: high values often occur at market bottoms following a "panic" sell-off while low values are often found during extended sideways periods, such as those found at tops and after consolidation periods.
- 14D Range - A moving average of trading ranges over a 14-Day period.
- 20D Range - A moving average of trading ranges over a 20-Day period.
- 50D Range -A moving average of trading ranges over a 50-Day period.
1-Year Trade Performance
The indicator is back-tested for one year, and the results are summarized showing the total number of hypothetical trades, average days per trade and total profit or loss from all the trades.
Click the "View Trades" link to see the breakdown of hypothetical trades that the indicator suggested based on the 9-18 Day Moving Average Crossover strategy.
Trade Breakdown for Buy and Sell Trades
The bottom of the page shows the profitability of all Buy and Sell trades generated by the strategy. This breakdown gives you a quick assessment of how each signal performed.
What's Included
The Futures Trading Guide requires more than 100 active trading days to run the prices through the 9-18 Day Moving Average Crossover indicator.
The program assigns a Buy or Sell signal for the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study.
The 9-18 Day Moving Average strategy calculates trades based on the end-of-day settlement price of the contract. The strategy is then updated every 20 minutes throughout the day, using delayed data from the exchanges. Trades are only closed at end-of-day if the signal reverses, using the settlement price for the day.
Data Updates
For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash." Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.
The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.
For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.
Page Sort
Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.
Views
Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.
Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:
- Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, %Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
- Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 14-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High, 52-Week % From High, 52-Week Low, and 52-Week % From Low.
- Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, 5-Day %Change, 1-Month %Change, 3-Month %Change, 52-Week %Change, YTD %Change.
- Moving Averages View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, 20-Day Moving Average, % From 20-Day Moving Average, 50-Day Moving Average, % From 50-Day Moving Average, 100-Day Moving Average, % From 100-Day Moving Average, 200-Day Moving Average, % From 200-Day Moving Average.
- Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, this view shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income (Annual), Beta, Dividend Forward (Annual), Dividend Yield Forward (Annual), and Latest Earnings Date.
Note: For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page. - Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
- Pre-Post Market View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
Learn more about Custom Views here.
View Symbol More Data (+)
Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.
Flipcharts
Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols.
Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members. Learn more about it here.
Download
Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 5000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.
Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.
Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case. Fundamental data for US equities is also limited to 15 fields per download request.
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