Futures Trading

Videos and Guides on Becoming a Profitable Futures Trader

I Let ChatGPT Design My Macro Portfolio

ChatGPT Macro Portfolio: Can AI Beat the Hedge Funds?

This experiment sits squarely in the world of trading global futures markets – the kind of macro-driven, multi-asset thinking that separates serious traders from the crowd. Last week, I paid $0 for macro analysis that hedge funds charge $250,000 a year to access. How? I asked ChatGPT to design a ...

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Day Trading Crude Oil with the Better Indicators

The ‘Better’ indicators aren’t optimised, so use them on any market or timeframe. Crude Oil is one of the futures markets where they work particularly well. Crude Oil has become a great day trading vehicle over the last few years. There is plenty of volume (liquidity), volatility (intra-day range) and ...

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Trading Forex with the Better Indicators [Volume Data]

If you’re in a non-US time zone, Forex could be the market for you. It sits alongside crude oil, gold and other instruments covered in the futures trading guide on this site. Here’s a great email from a Forex trader, Petr S., on how he uses the ‘Better’ indicators to ...

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Japanese Yen Carry Trade and the US Stock Market

I’m surprised I haven’t looked at this relationship before – the relationship between Equities and the Japanese Yen. It’s one of the most important macro dynamics in the futures markets I trade, and understanding it gives you a real edge in reading equity market risk. Traditionally Japan has been the ...

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How to Protect Your Wealth from Money Printing

Gold and Silver made huge down moves this last month. Why should you care? After all, you’re an Emini day trader. Well hopefully this video sheds some light on the gold and silver markets – and why they matter in non-equity futures markets. “When gold is a free market, not ...

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Do the Better Indicators Work on Bitcoin? Yes and No

Do the ‘Better’ indicators work on Bitcoin? This is one of the more unusual questions in futures trading – and the answer is a qualified yes and no. And that’s the problem. Bitcoin data is all over the place and there is no single unified data feed. As of November ...

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ETF Trading Strategy: Find Beaten-Down Markets Worldwide

An ETF rotation strategy is one of the smartest approaches in futures market trading – and this method uses simple intermarket analysis to find beaten-down markets before the crowd piles back in. Been mulling over my longer-term investment strategy for a while now. Emini day trading, real estate and cash ...

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Futures Margin Requirements: Live Data for 2026

Margin requirements are one of the first practical things to understand in futures trading – this page tracks live data so you always have current figures for the markets you trade. Live Data from Interactive Brokers and TradeStation What is the difference between initial margin and maintenance margin in futures ...

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Day Trader Tax Loopholes: What Still Works in 2024

Structuring your trading business to significantly lower your tax bill is becoming increasingly difficult and risky – but it’s still worth understanding if futures trading is your main income. Clarification – Tobin Tax The Tobin Tax discussed in the video has NOT been introduced for Emini trading. The calculation shown ...