We’ve started a blog series on charting basics. Quickly understanding various charting forms and patterns is one of the most valuable skills for futures traders to develop. When you’re trading, you need to be able to decipher as much information from your charts as quickly as possible before you make your trade. If the market is as volatile as it’s been lately, you may have only fractions of a second to make your decision. Successful futures traders learn to read and understand their charts at a glance. In this continuing series, we’ll be covering charting basics that are important to futures traders. (more…)