Trading strategies? Complicated? Pah. The Insider hears that the strategies of many traders are no more complex than a coin flip.

       According to financial betting group BetOnMarkets , its client base of traders and retail punters are increasingly turning to martingale or heads or tail bets to play the markets.

       For example, if markets go up, the punter wins, whereas if they go down, they lose. Martingale bets were famously featured in Tom Stoppard’s classic play Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are dead, right.

The currency carry trade is a trading strategy used by some investors. Investors who use this strategy buy foreign currency at a low interest rate. They then use the money to fund other investments that have larger payoffs. The key to successfully investing in the carry trade is to invest in currencies that have either a low interest rate or that charge no interest at all.

There are a number of natural gas trading strategies that can be implemented to trade natural gas on both the long and the short side. Natural gas trading strategies utilize natural gas futures and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that derive their valuation from natural gas futures (see Buying and Selling Futures).

There are only 3 things the stock market or any stock can really do: go up, go down, or stay around the same price. Just figure what is happening (up, down, or nothing), and keep betting that way until it doesn't work. When that happens, figure out something else that works.