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Trading Strategies
Strategies are only half the story. The other half is the plan and the risk rules that keep one bad trade from ending your trading.
Guides
How to Write a Futures Trading Plan
A trading plan is a written rulebook you make before the market opens, while you're calm. Here's what belongs in one, and why most plans fail.
Risk Management for Futures Traders
In futures, how much you can lose matters more than how much you might make. These are the core ideas every beginner should understand first.
Position Sizing for Futures: A Worked Example
Position size is the one decision that controls how much a trade can hurt you. Here's the simple formula, worked through with real contract specs.
How to Keep a Futures Trading Journal
A trading journal turns every trade, good or bad, into information. Here's what to record, and how to actually learn from it.
Trend Following in Futures: How It Works and How It Fails
Trend following tries to ride sustained price moves and cut losers quickly. It's simple to describe and hard to live with. Here's why.
Mean Reversion in Futures: The Idea, the Risks, and the Traps
Mean reversion bets that prices pulled far from normal will drift back. It can win often and still lose big. Here's what to understand first.
Futures Spread Trading: Calendar and Intermarket Spreads Explained
A spread trades the price difference between two related contracts instead of the direction of one. Here's how that works, and why 'lower risk' isn't 'no risk.'
No strategy works all the time
Every method on this page has losing streaks and conditions where it fails. We explain how each idea works and how it can go wrong. We don't claim any of them will make money.