Market & Trading Information
Information about the futures industry, market terminology, exchange information, macro risk management, etc.
Product Information
- What products can I trade on MetroTrader?
- Equity Index Futures Vs. ETFs
- What are contract specs?
- Futures Contracts Month Codes
- Comparing and Contrasting Futures and Stocks/ETFs.
- What are S&P 500 futures?
- What are Russell index futures?
- What are Nasdaq index futures?
- What are Dow Jones futures?
- What is Fixed Income?
Trading
- What is settlement?
- How do I calculate price movements and profit/loss?
- What to know before you trade
- Understanding the impact of economic events on daily trading.
- What kind of trader am I?
- What is Day Trading (or scalping)?
- What is spread trading?
- What is the trend following trading strategy?
- What is swing trading?
- What is statistical arbitrage trading?
- fundamental and technical analysis
- Why trade futures?
Market Structure
- Futures expiration and contract roll
- What does Price Discovery mean?
- What does Mark-to-Market mean?
- How does futures trading 'work'?
- How did futures trading in the US start?
- How does leverage work in futures?
- What is the FOMC and how does it impact trading?
- What contract month to trade
- How do futures work in portfolio allocation?
- Futures Order Types
- What happens if I hold a physically settled contract too long?