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Futures Curriculum 

Our Futures program is designed to help traders excel with essential skills and strategies. Covering topics like market analysis, risk management, and the funding process, this course ensures you are ready to navigate the markets effectively.

After completing the course, you will receive a certificate of completion as a certified Futures trader.​​​​

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These are some of the topics covered in our Futures program:

Futures A to Z

Introduction to Futures

  • Birth of the modern Futures market

  • What are Futures?

  • Opening hours and trading sessions

  • Key players: hedgers, speculators, and arbitrageurs

  • Popular Futures markets: indices, commodities, currencies

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Differences Between Futures and Other Markets

  • Speculation vs. investment

  • Leverage and margin requirements

  • Cost efficiency compared to equity trading​

Key Futures Markets

  • Equity indices (e.g., S&P 500, NASDAQ)

  • Commodities (e.g., crude oil, gold, agricultural products)

  • Currencies (e.g., USD, Euro, Yen)

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Drivers of the Futures Market

  • Economic growth and GDP data

  • Interest rates and central bank policies

  • Supply and demand dynamics

  • Geopolitical events

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Main Technical Indicators for Futures

  • Moving Averages

  • Bollinger Bands

  • Relative Strength Index (RSI)

  • Stochastic Oscillator

  • Fibonacci Retracement

Indicators and Patterns

Line Charts

Bar Charts

Candelstrick Charts

Support and resistance

Trend

Triangle Patterns

   -  Symmetrical

   -  Ascending

   -  Descending

Head and Shoulders Pattern

Double Top

Engulfing Pattern

Ichimoku cloud bounce

Futures Technical Strategies

  • Intra-day trading

  • Intraweek trading

  • Trend Trading

  • Range Trading

  • News Trading

  • Scalping

  • Breakout Strategy

  • Bet against breakout

  • Exit strategy

Trader Psychology

  • The Importance of trading rules

  • Avoid revenge-trading and over-trading

  • Greed

  • Fear

  • Euphoria

  • Panic

  • Fear of Missing Out

Risk Management

  • Risk per trade ( no more than x% of total capital, limit risk rate to x%)

  • Overall exposure

  • Stop-loss and take-profit

  • Expected return

  • Limit us of leverage Diversification

  • Option Hedge

  • Trading Journal

Advanced trading strategies

  • Fibonacci Trading

  • Candle strategy

  • Trend Line trading strategy

  • Heikin-Ashi two bar strategy

  • Ikh-Ha strategy

  • Position trading

  • Funding process 

  • The Syllabus is only used for University/College purposes

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