The 3Dimensional Trading Breakthrough

Brian Schad
to the individual placing the order on their personal computer. Without electronic
trading, the commissions on stock trading are traditionally higher in price than
the average commodity commission. In my opinion, this is because most people
involved with stock “investments” require the expertise of a full-service broker.
Commodity brokerage firms have their “version” of a full-service broker. However,
I have yet to see or meet a full-service commodity brokerage firm that warrants
“three-digit” commissions and are assisting their clients in making money.
Many facets of this book can be seamlessly integrated into your stock trading –
from a technical aspect. You, however, must still be a good “picker” of the correct
stock and there are literally thousands of them. Good luck! The commodity
markets, on the other hand, have a greatly reduced amount of underlying assets
offered by the exchanges. Yes, there have been a lot more futures contracts
introduce in recent years, but the commodity markets have only about 32 major
commonly traded futures contracts, all divided into a finite amount of sectors -
grains, livestock, food & fiber, interest-rate markets, currencies, precious metals,
stock indices, and petroleum. That’s basically it. Your focus to make money is
considerably narrowed into a small field that can be researched in full much, much
easier than individual stocks!
I don’t mean to discourage those of you who have been “die-hard” stock investors
and traders, nor is it my intention to compare the two types of markets on the
same criterion level - they are like apples (stocks) and oranges (commodities).
However, the instruments that are used to trade these different markets are very
much the same. They have an underlying asset, call options, put options, and
exhibit chart patterns for technical traders to analyze. This material will benefit a
stock trader as well as a commodity trader.
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
- Derek Bok
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