The Better Bet

When you first learned that market makers existed, you probably wondered if they were good or bad and then you probably wondered how they worked. Market makers are liquidity providers. They help ensure that trades can easily be entered and exited. They want their Delta to be neutral, to do this...

Various reports come out regarding the economy on Friday including the Employment Cost Index, Core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index and Personal Spending and Personal Income. The reports are released at 8:30 a.m. ET making for a trade opportunity entering Nadex spreads at 7:00 a.m....

Canada releases their Gross Domestic Product numbers monthly about 60 days after the month being reported ends, which is unique. Most countries release quarterly. The GDP is the broadest measure to gauge an economy’s health. Both reports will be released Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. With the...

The AUD/USD can be a great market to trade in the evening hours in the US, particularly when there are news announcements coming up. Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET, the Producer Price Index and Private Sector Credit information for Australia will be released. This is a scheduled opportunity to trade....

Pending Home Sales is a report that gives forward-looking statistics more progression than does perhaps Existing Home Sales. A home is considered pending once a contract is signed but will not actually close for some time. The National Association of Realtors will release U.S. Pending Home Sales...

You may want to try out day trading, but you don’t have a whole lot of money with which to start. You may not be comfortable with high risk, per se yet, then starting out in Nadex spreads is an excellent solution. Trying out scheduled news trades while using planned strategies can make it...

The Federal Open Market Committee is a committee made up of 12 members of different groups in the Federal Reserve System. Eight regular meetings are held per year but whenever an FOMC member speaks, it moves the market. This means plenty of opportunities for trading in both binary options and...

It is amazing how you can take some of the things you like to do and do them at the same time. One trader tells how he likes to fish at this time of year but because he also likes to trade, it causes quite a conundrum. Trying to trade from his phone while fishing has been almost impossible....

A primary measure for most economies is consumer spending because it accounts for the most significant amount of economic activity. On Thursday at 4:30 a.m. ET, the Office for National Statistics will release the Retail Sales percentage change. This percentage is of course inflation adjusted and...

The Bank of Canada will be holding a press conference reporting on the Monetary Policy and Rate Statement and the Overnight Rate on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. ET. The press conference is the method the bank uses in which to communicate the bank’s view of economic conditions, pointing out key...

Manufacturing Sales and Foreign Securities Purchases numbers are coming out on Friday, October 16, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The USD/CAD is the market to trade for this scheduled news event. There is no knowing which way the market will go, so the recommended strategy is an Iron Condor using Nadex spreads...

Have a day job? Don’t have the free time during the day to day trade? Then, evening trade. That’s right, trade at night. There are markets out there and strategies for trading at night. A perfect example is a news trade based on a scheduled news event. Eurostat, the statistical office...