Featured Strategies
Continental Trading Strategies is currently offering two unique trading methodologies to build your custom trading system. Either strategy can be combined with one of four equity futures products in order to customize a trading strategy geared toward your own financial goals.
Diamond Trading Strategy: Trend Following
Diamond Strategy works to analyze the current market trend and seeks to put on trades at optimal entry points following this trend. Once a trade is entered, a tight stop-loss order is placed to limit losses against any unexpected trend reversal. Also, an optimal profit target order is placed as the strategy aims to predict the peak or valley of the current market trend. These profit target and stop-loss points adjust as market conditions change. If an open position remains near the end of the day, that position is exited in order to avoid all overnight uncertainty. See an example here.
Platinum Trading Strategy: Combination Methodology
The Platinum Trading Strategy is a combination approach that seeks to follow short term intra-day trends while keeping a close eye on trend reversal patterns that are likely to follow. Tight stop-loss orders are used in the same way as the Diamond method and positions are never held overnight. The Platinum method seeks to predict market stability. As profit points are reached following a short term trend, the strategy places another order in the opposite direction to take advantage of the "rebound" effect that is so often seen when a market becomes overextended in one direction or the other. See an example here.