The latest strategies and techniques for investors looking to rev up their portfolio

The futures market is booming, and discount brokerage companies are launching new, easier ways for individual investors to jump into the highly speculative futures market. Trading Futures For Dummies provides updated, in-depth information on this once esoteric and now increasingly accessible investment vehicle, covering commodities, the tremendously successful mini stock index futures, and the new single-stock futures contracts. It features up-to-the-minute advice on the different trading techniques to help build profit and avoid the common pitfalls that trip up so many traders, with information on the various types of futures, conducting research, entering and exiting positions, risks and rewards, and bearish and bullish strategies for investment enthusiasts.

Joe Duarte, MD (Dallas, TX) is a leading independent analyst focusing on intelligence, energy, and geopolitics and their effect on the financial markets. One of CNBC's original "Market Mavens," Dr. Duarte has been writing about the financial markets since 1990.