Futures Trading Courses

1 · What Is Futures Trading?

Obligation vs ownership, listed contracts, and why margin is not free leverage.

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2 · Contract Specs, Ticks, and Notional

Multiplier, tick size, tick value, and how notional dwarfs the margin number.

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3 · Margin, Leverage, and Variation

Initial vs maintenance, variation margin, and FCM house haircuts.

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4 · RTH, ETH, and Globex Hours

When the contract actually trades, overnight gaps, and session liquidity.

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5 · FCMs, Platforms, and Order Types

Futures commission merchants, routing, and the orders you will actually send.

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6 · Front Month, Rolls, and Open Interest

Which month you hold, when OI migrates, and roll cost as a real P&L line.

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7 · Risk Management 101 for Futures

1% in ticks, contract caps, and why one ES can be a year's work.

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8 · Common Beginner Futures Mistakes

Sizing from margin, ignoring tick value, holding the wrong month.

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9 · How to Read a CME Spec Sheet

Root symbol, hours, limits, and what the PDF is for.

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10 · E-mini and Micro Equity Index Futures

ES, NQ, MES, MNQ — same idea, different notional.

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11 · Crude Oil and Energy Futures

CL, NG, and inventory clocks that equities do not have.

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12 · Metals Futures

GC, SI, and dollar/real-rate weather.

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13 · Treasury and Interest Rate Futures

Duration in a contract, not a bond ladder.

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14 · Agricultural Futures Overview

Grains, livestock, and why weather is a spec.

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15 · FX Futures vs Spot FX

Listed IMM vs dealer OTC — two machines.

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16 · Calendar Spreads

Same product, two months, less directional beta.

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17 · Intermarket Spreads

Crack, crush, and relative value without a slogan.

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18 · Volume, Open Interest, and Delivery

What OI means, who delivers, who cash-settles.

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19 · Tick, Range, and Session Structure

When time charts lie and tick charts help.

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20 · Multiple Timeframes on Globex

HTF bias on a 23-hour tape.

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21 · Trend Following Futures

ATR trails and why one contract still needs a stop.

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22 · Mean Reversion in Futures

Ranges that exist until inventory or FOMC ends them.

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23 · Breakout Trading Listed Futures

Session highs, volume, and fakeouts at the globex open.

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24 · Swing Trading Futures

Holding through ETH with a written overnight budget.

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25 · Day Trading Futures

No PDT counting. House margin and tick risk still exist.

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26 · Open Drive and Opening Range

Cash open vs globex open — two different auctions.

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27 · Inventory, WASDE, FOMC, and Prints

Event implied move as a sizing input.

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28 · Spread Trading as a Strategy

When the outright is the wrong object.

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29 · Hedging Equities or FX with Futures

Beta hedges that can still lose on basis.

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30 · Seasonality and Inventory Cycles

Averages are not a fill. They are a prior.

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31 · Position Sizing in Ticks and Kelly

Convert a dollar cap into contracts, then cut it.

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32 · ATR and Volatility Targeting

Same contract, different week, different size.

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33 · Psychology Under Leverage

A $12.50 tick can still ruin a mood. Process first.

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34 · Backtesting Rolls and Continuous Contracts

Back-adjusted series lie in their own way.

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35 · Building a Futures Trading Plan

Market, session, contract month, kill switch.

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36 · Order Flow and the DOM

Depth that can vanish. Tape that can fake.

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37 · Correlation Across Complexes

ES plus NQ plus CL is often one bet.

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38 · Commitment of Traders

A weekly snapshot, not a trigger.

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39 · Journals and Performance Metrics

Expectancy in ticks, not in vibes.

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40 · Margin Stress and Kill Switches

Variation can call you on a Sunday night.

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41 · Options on Futures Fundamentals

Rights on a listed future, not a stock option clone.

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42 · Greeks on Futures Options

Delta in contracts, gamma into a globex event.

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43 · Defined-Risk Structures on Futures

Verticals when outright size is too loud.

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44 · Short Volatility on Futures

Premium that does not care about your range thesis.

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45 · Calendars and Roll Overlays

Time spreads that inherit the roll.

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46 · Micros vs Minis vs Full Size

Same market, different ruin speed.

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47 · Delivery, Cash Settle, and EFP

Who must make or take, who just marks.

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48 · Basis and Cash-Futures Convergence

The cash market is allowed to disagree until it cannot.

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49 · Evaluation Metrics Without the Prop Pitch

Read a scorecard. Do not buy a dream.

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50 · Advanced Futures Risk Frameworks

Stress, correlation, and the off switch.

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51 · Equity Index Complex Deep Dive

ES/NQ/RTY/YM as a book, not four hobbies.

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52 · Energy Complex Deep Dive

Curve shape, storage, and why CL gaps.

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53 · Metals and FX Futures Deep Dive

Dollar, real rates, and IMM hours.

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54 · Rates Complex Deep Dive

Duration, curve, and meeting-day convexity.

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55 · Building a Multi-Contract Book

Caps per complex, not per opinion.

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56 · Section 1256 and Record-Keeping

A tax category. Not a DIY return. Ask a professional.

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57 · Choosing a Market to Specialize

Liquidity, hours, and personality fit.

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58 · Overnight Risk and Event Calendars

ETH is a session. Size it or skip it.

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59 · Combining Futures with Equities

Hedge vs duplicate beta. Name which.

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60 · From First Contract to a Durable Process

The curriculum as a loop, not a trophy.

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