Getting Started with a Futures Account
Discover the 7 steps to getting started with futures and learn about our recommended trading platforms and brokers.
Discover the 7 steps to getting started with futures and learn about our recommended trading platforms and brokers.
Jonathan McKeever breaks down the 5-step checklist when entering a futures trade. Before you take a futures trade, make sure you understand these items.
Futures symbols differ from stocks. Each futures market has a specific ticker symbol that is followed by symbols for the contract month and the year.
Who trades futures? Learn about the two types of market participants that use futures contracts.
Review commonly used futures terminology that will help you understand the trading jargon.
Discover how the leverage involved in trading futures allows for small changes in price but large changes in your position
Understand why trading futures can be a rewarding trading strategy because of the fixed amount of risk, high probability of reward, and safe use of leverage.
TG Watkins reviews why technical analysis is a critical aspect of trading and how this can help traders identify entries and exits and manage risk.