I was invited as a guest of TradeGuider, to mingle at the seminar and help 'spread the word' about e-mini's and the TradeGuider software. Of the 180 traders in attendance, I didn’t find one who was even aware of the ‘e-mini’ let alone how much more advantage e-mini’s offer, as compared to ordinary stocks. It’s amazing, because the e-mini has been around since 1997, yet those who only know [and think] ‘stocks’ have somehow never managed to bump into it. I guess myopic vision really is a common frailty of human nature.

Here’s just a couple of the advantages: To place a trade on a $20 stock you need $20 cash in your account for every share you want to put in your trade; A 1,000 share trade would require $20,000 CASH, plus commissions for your brokerage. You go LONG … and successfully capture a 50 cent per share profit. The trade has produced for you $500 profit. Your ROI = 2.5%

Now, let’s do a trade with e-mini’s. You need $500 cash in your account for each e—mini 'contract' you want to place in a trade, e.g. a 5-contract trade would require $2,500 cash. You go LONG again…and your trade successfully captures 2 points of the S&P 500 Index. Each point is worth $50 per contract. You had placed 5 contracts in the trade (times) the 2 Index points you captured = 10 total points, worth $50 each = $500 profit.

Your ROI on the e-mini trade = 20%! That’s ten times greater! And, you only needed $2,500 verses $20,000 for the stock trade! You could have been in the trade as little as ten minutes. And, you can make profitable trades like this even when the market is going DOWN by going 'short'.

Stocks don’t even come close to e-mini’s when it comes to ‘bang for the buck’.  Ask any e-mini trader and they'll tell you that e-mini's offer the fastest, safest, most profitable way and least costly ($$ needed) way to participate in the stock market.

If these numbers catch your interest and you would like to hear more about trading e-mini’s, you’ll find several hours of free information on my web site. Incidentally, there’s a good reason why the public has never heard much about the ‘e-mini’. Mutual fund managers and stock brokers will never tell you anything about e-mini’s because they know you’ll want to do your own trading yourself. The 'e-mini' was designed for first-timers in the stock market, a financial trading instrument that ordinary folks could afford to learn to trade with.

Check it out. Give e-mini trading a shot. You’ll never look back….especially if you are an experienced stock trader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8kSTErib4

Six mistakes authors who write about the stock market all too often seem to make, are:

1) Assuming their reader already knows a lot;

2) Use terms and words the reader does not [yet] understand;

3) They, (maybe without even realizing it) write to display their own vast intelligence—their ego factor;

4) They forget what it was like 'not to know' every term;

5) They forget what it was like when they were just starting out;

6) And, they forget how confusing it is if things aren't laid out exactly and clearly.

I've worked very hard to make e-mini trading easy to understand, both in my book and on my web site. The feedback I receive tells me that I'm on the right track.

My promise to you is that I will strive to avoid the above 6 mistakes, and to continually look for ways to make both my book and web site even easier to understand, and to continually be adding new material that I come across or develop that hopefully can help you master it faster.

May I invite you to read one comment on my blog in particular, that of Pattie Ogilvie, an experienced stock trader whom I helped in her discovery of the 'e-mini'. MH