Futures Trading Course
This online futures trading course will teach you how to trade futures. Learn about rules, charts, ticks, and strategies in our classes
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What You’ll Learn in Our Futures Trading Course
- Basics of futures trading
- Benefits of trading micro futures
- Points and tick values
- Futures trading hours
- Notional value explained
- How initial margin works
- How maintenance margin works
- Choosing a futures broker
- How to set up your futures charts
- How to read tick charts
Requirements
- Get access by becoming a Bullish Bears monthly or yearly member
- A solid desire to become a futures trader
- An understanding that futures trading is risky and hard
- Passionate about wanting to learn futures trading
- Commitment to completing this futures trading course
Description
Our online futures trading course is designed to teach you the skills how to become an independent futures trader. In this course, you’ll learn how to setup your futures charts, margin requirements, understanding the COT report, indicators, the most popular trading strategies, and prepare for live futures trading action.
The Bullish Bears futures trading classes are tailored to give you the essential information needed to become a safe and effective futures trader, but it’s up to you to implement the knowledge that we teach you.
What else?
- Access this futures trading course and all of our other trading courses as long as you are a member
- Our futures trading classes will be updated with new content
- You will gain access to the Bullish Bears options and futures trade room
- You will gain access to the Bullish Bear’s live daily streams
Who this futures trading course is for
- If you want to learn how to trade futures
- If you are looking to become a serious futures trader
- If you are looking for a perfect futures trading strategy, this course isn’t for you
- If you are committed to completing our futures trading course and furthering your trading knowledge
What Is Futures Trading?
The futures market allows traders the ability to trade several different sectors in the stock market by purchasing contracts of specified products. These contracts are much less complicated than trading options, but a little bit more complicated than trading shares of a specific stock. There’s a bit of jargon to learn, however, there are a lot less terms to learn than options.
When trading options, traders are entering into a legal agreement. There is both a buyer and seller. “Something” is being contracted. There’s a few futures basics terms that make up a contract. Terms such as notional value, ticks, tick size, tick value, margin, points, and handles.
Notional value is the value or spot price of the underlying asset. It determines the value of the futures contract. With stocks, each move up in price is measured in dollars. In futures, each move up is called a point. So, 1 point = $1.
Each underlying asset such as /ES, /CL, /GC moves in ticks. Each tick value is different based on the different assets. For instance, the /ES is measured in $0.25 ticks. So, 4 ticks makes up a 1 point move. Each tick in the /ES is worth $12.50, so a 1 point move in the /ES is worth $50. If you have 1 contract and the futures moves up or down 1 point ($1) then you have the ability to make or lose $50 for each contract. We teach you how all of this works in our futures trading course.
Am I on the Hook?
The great news is that you don’t have to take hold or deliver the product that’s being contracted with futures. So, you don’t need to have truck loads of gold or oil being delivered to your house and you’re not responsible for delivering these commodities to someone else either. The futures market allows traders the ability to trade products such as gold, oil, wheat, corn, and the overall market, by using contracts within their brokerage account.
Again, the great news is that your futures trading broker will handle everything for you automatically within your brokerage account. The process is very simple and nothing to worry about. There are some very important stipulations to be aware of which we will teach and show you in our futures course. Some of the most important aspects to choosing the right broker includes margin requirements, order execution, and how good their charts are.
Sectors
There are 9 different e-mini futures and micro futures categories that you can trade and then different products under each category.
The different stock indexes are /ES, /NQ, /RTY, /EMD, /YM, /NKD, /VX, /BTC, /MES, /MNQ, /M2K, /MYM, /MME and the futures trading hours are 5 pm – 3:15 pm ct & 3:30 – 4 pm Sunday thru Friday, except for /BT which is 5 pm – 4 pm.
The interest rates symbols are /ZT, /ZF, /ZN, /TN, /ZB, /GE, /ZQ, /GLB, and/UB. The futures trading hours for interest rates are Sunday thru Friday 5 pm – 4 pm.
Metals symbols are /SIL, /GC, /SI, /HG, /MGC, /YG, /YI, /PL, and /PA. The futures hours for metals are Sunday thru Friday 5 pm – 4 pm. /YG and /YI have futures hours of 7 pm – 4 pm.
Categories
Currency symbols are /6A, /6B, /6C, /M6A, /M6B, /M6E, /J7, /6E, /6J, /6M, /E7, /6N, /6S, /DX and the futures hours are Sunday thru Friday 5 pm – 4 pm, except for /DX which is 7 pm – 4 pm.
Energy symbols are /BZ, /QG, /RB, /HO, /CL, /NG, and /QM. Trading hours are Sunday thru Friday 5 pm – 4 pm.
Grains are /ZC, /XC, /XW, /XK, /KE, /ZO, /ZS, /ZM, /ZL, /ZW. Hours are Sunday thru Friday from 7 pm – 7:45 am and varies from 8:30 am – 1:20/1:45 pm.
Softs are /CC, /KC, /CT, /OJ, /SB. Futures hours vary on all of these.
Forest symbol is /LBS and trades Monday – Thursday 9 am – 4 pm and Friday 9 am – 1:55 pm.
Live stock symbols are /GF, /HE, and /LE and trade Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 1:05 pm.
Micro Futures
/MES is the ticker symbol for micro futures. It moves in $0.25 ticks just like the /ES but the tick value is different. The tick value for micro futures is $1.25. Every 1 point move would be $5. So, each 1 point point move up or down would be the equivalent to a $5 gain or loss.
We cant overstate our excitement for micro futures for several different reasons. They are a great way to practice trading futures before upgrading to the e-minis. Once you have your strategy mastered then it’s much easier to migrate up to e-minis. The futures charts will still be identical but the profit and losses would just be bigger. We will show you what we mean in our futures trading course.
Another benefit with trading micros is that you don’t have to trade small cap stocks anymore. They are a fantastic way to grow a small account and practice becoming a trader. Again, the world of trading futures has opened up to most traders and no longer those that have a large trading account.
Our recommendation is to practice paper trading futures first. Then, once you’ve mastered your strategy, start trading in a real account with /MES first, and slowly scale your way up to the /ES once you feel comfortable.
Futures Trading Course Content
Charts
How to Setup Your Futures Charts
How to Read Tick Charts
How to Choose the Right Tick for You
How to Trade Wedges – Tops – Breakouts
How to Use the 20 Bar Exponential Moving Average Line
Futures Trading Indicators Explained
Rules
Understanding Futures Margin
How to Place Trades Using the DOM
Globex Futures Explained
Understanding the COT Report
How to Find Trades on Every Bar
How to Use Correct Position Sizing
40-60 World Explained
How to Place Futures Trades
Futures Testing and Practice Explained
How to Do Limit Order Scalping
How to Have the Proper Mindset When Trading
Don’t Listen to the Talking Heads
Stock Market 10-Year Outlook Broken Down
Strategies
Popular Futures Trading Strategies
How to Trade the Failed Bear Flag
How to Trade the NQ
How to Trade the Cut N Reverse
How to Trade the Opening Range Breakout
How to Trade the 2Fer
How to Call Your Shots When Trading
How to Trade the Open
How to Trade Breakouts
Secret Futures Trading Strategies
How to Make Money in the Stock Market
Courses Included
Live Trades Library
Frequently Asked Questions
- E-mini’s – most popular futures trading strategy
- Micros – lower risk and lower reward
- Trading breakouts and breakdown patterns
- Dip buying
- Opening range breakouts
- Day trading futures contracts
- Swing trading futures contracts
- Failed bear flags
- Cut N reverse
- Take a futures trading course
- Read popular books on trading futures
- Learn what futures trading strategy fits you best
- Fund a brokerage account
- Be aware of margin restrictions
- Interact with other futures traders in a trade room
- Practice trading futures in a paper account
- Scale your way up with real money
- TradeStation
- Tradovate
- NinjaTrader
- TD Ameritrade
- Infinity Futures
The best way to learn futures trading is in a course and trade room. A course will teach you the knowledge about the different strategies. Then, a futures trading room will teach you how to trade them live real-time. Futures trading strategies are a great way to grow both a small and large trading account. E-mini futures are the most popular to trade, however, micro futures are a hot commodity in the market. Micro futures afford traders the ability to trade with a small account, which has changed the game in the futures market.
There aren’t any degrees of financial qualifications required to become a futures trader. Anyone can trade futures if they open a brokerage account and fund it. It’s important to learn how futures work before trading them.
It can take 1-5 years to learn futures trading, but these results aren’t typical. Most traders are not successful. Many factors go into becoming a successful trader, such as learning technical analysis and having the proper discipline and mindset.
Futures trading can be a very profitable trading strategy. Futures offers benefits such as flexible trading hours, no PDT rule, and not having to look at a lot of symbols when trading. It’s important to realize that most traders are not profitable.
Futures Trading Course
- Receive complete futures trading course with membership
- Access to trade rooms & Discord
- Live streaming daily
- Rated Best Value Courses by Investopedia
