Free Futures Spread Trading Strategies

We publish free futures spread seasonal trading strategies each month. Each trading strategy includes current chart (daily updated), backtest including results for each historical year and also cumulative absolute return.

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Futures Spread Strategy For November, 2024 - Buy HEV25-HEG25

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • Low margin requirements
  • The spread moves around -6 now and it is quite low compared to historical range +10 / -15. The bottom is usually around MID of November
  • The seasonal window has 93% Win for last 15 years, another kind of speculacation can be that spread will close at positive number
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Futures Spread Strategy For October, 2024 - Buy ZMN25-ZMU25

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win in last 15 years
  • All seasonal patterns up to 30 years have similar movement and correlation over 86%
  • Role reversal - retracement back to 0 can be next support
  • Only 14 spreads since 1978 have ended below 0
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Futures Spread Strategy For September, 2024 - Buy NGH25-NGF25

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win for last 20 years
  • All patterns have similar movement and correlation in seasonal window with correlation over 90%
  • Low margin requirements
  • High RRR
  • Long seasonal window
  • The spread is currently traded aroud historical lows
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Futures Spread Strategy For November, 2023 - Buy HOG24-HOF24

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 90% Win in last 20 years, 100% Win in last 15 years
  • Low margin requirements
  • Reversed head and shoulders pattern
  • Strong seasonal patterns correlation over 89%
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Futures Spread Strategy For September, 2023 - Buy ZOZ23-ZOK24

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 90% Win for last 20 years
  • The spread is historically moving in the range and it's moving now in a low area of that range.
  • Low margin requirements
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Futures Spread Strategy For July, 2023 - Buy HEM24-HEJ24

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • Low margin requirements
  • Long seasonal window - A lot of time for seasonality to kick in. Possibility to take profit earlier
  • Narrow legs spread with expected lower volatility
  • 95% Win for last 20 years
  • WARNING: The spread price, at the time of writing this article, is at historical maximum.
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Futures Spread Strategy For May, 2023 - Buy ZLH24-ZLN23

This futures spread combines several conditions to create an interesting trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win in last 20 years
  • Strong seasonal patterns correlation in trading window
  • The spread is moving in the range from 12/2022
  • The stop loss can be placed under a local support level.
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Futures Spread Strategy For April, 2023 - Buy ZSX23-ZSU23

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 95% Win for last 20 years
  • Intra-crop spread
  • Strong in trade correlation
  • Low margin requirements
  • High RRR
  • The spread is moving around historic lows and also it looks like that local resistance has been broken and we have role reversal pattern now
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