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In philosophy, the wise learn from Confucius.

In trading, the wise learn from Carl Futia.

“What you don’t know about trading won’t hurt you. What costs you money is what you know for sure that just isn’t true.”       Carl Futia

You have reached the home page of my real-time trading site. I am Carl Futia. This is a unique opportunity to develop your trading skills by looking over my shoulder as I day-trade the e-mini S&P 500 futures. Most of what you believe about trading just isn’t true. By watching me buy and sell you will find out why.

What To Expect With

Carl Futia Trades SP's

• Watch me in real time as I place my bets in the world’s biggest cash game, the S&P futures market.

• All trades are posted on my private Twitter account @CarlRealTime. Twitter time stamps these trades to the minute. If you mark them on your one minute bar chart you will see what I see when I buy or sell.

• A free subscription to the private Substack blog Carl Futia Real Time. There you will get end of day commentary with support/resistance calculations explained and illustrated on intraday charts.

I have been trading S&P futures for decades, ever since the market opened in 1982. The first step towards trading success is to believe that it is really possible. After you have watched my trades for a while you will see this is so. The next step is to abandon the rules of trading you learned from books and seminars. This stuff generally comes from people who cannot make a dime trading. Keep reading to find out the Truth About Trading.

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The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit from Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets

I wrote the book The Art of Contrarian Trading in 2009. I explained why prices are often pushed too high or too low by crowd enthusiasm or fear.

Crowd behavior manifests itself to the day trader too! But I didn’t explain this in my book. Subscribe to this trading site and find out how I apply the book’s principles to day-trading the S&P futures. You will discover the things I look for within the day’s fluctuations which enable me to do this.

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