Expanding your futures knowledge
- Comparing stock trading with futures trading
- Contract specifications
- Physical delivery vs. cash settlement
- Understanding product moves
- Economic events
Take your trade plan to the next level
- Download the trade plan
- What kind of trader am I?
- What does risk actually mean?
- Managing futures risk
- Utilizing stop orders
Practice what you've learned
Risk management is an important aspect of trading. Traders will base the amount of capital they put at risk for each trade on many factors. Traders should have a plan in place to make sure that they are placing trades using an appropriate amount of capital for the size of account they are trading with and based on their financial profiles.
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