With Over 50 Years of Experience, I Am a Former Attorney Turned Floor Trader at The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) & International Monetary Market (IMM). As President, CEO & Founder of TOTE, LLC. I've Trained Numerous Qualified Investors, Lectured at Seminars & Developed Multiple Trading Strategies...MOST-NOTABLY, "THE TRILOGY SPREAD TRADING STRATEGY."
Trading the mis-alignment and re-alignment between three related markets is called a “Trilogy Spread,” which most traders have never heard of before. While most traders concentrate on the vertical movement of the market (either up or down), The Trilogy Spread does not.
It concentrates only on the almost invisible lateral movement that takes place between the related markets. Our exploitation of the lateral movement between the eMini S&P (ES), the eMini Dow (YM) & the eMini Nasdaq (NQ) markets is at the core of The Trilogy Spread Trading Strategy.
The Trilogy Spread Trading Strategy's origins are deeply rooted in the open-outcry trading pits dating back to the mid-1850's when futures trading began.
This 150+ Year Old ‘Floor Trader’s Secret’ is based on something as hokey sounding as the “Hog-Corn Ratio.” Think of it, hogs and cattle eat corn.
Those markets are inextricably linked to one another. Let's say some news hits the market that knocks one of them out of line; for example, blight is discovered in the corn fields of the Midwest. After the initial shock, just like magnets, they will realign.