• $149

Back to the Futures: Futures Trading 101

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 24 Lessons

Taught by a team of experienced and active traders, we have distilled all the important topics about futures trading into easy-to-understand essential components. You will learn about the backbone of trading futures, from the mechanics of futures contracts/markets, to building a real-life futures trading strategy that you can implement.
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What You Will Learn

Are you ready to make more sense of the financial markets and harness the opportunities offered by futures? Futures have long been a valuable financial instrument used by professionals and lesser-known to non-professional traders. This concise trading course aims to unlock the potentials for traders of all backgrounds. 

We will begin the Futures Trading journey by walking through:
  • The fundamental building blocks of futures contracts and markets;
  • Futures trading activities, e.g., who trades futures; what products to trade, etc. all through real-world examples.
  • Advanced futures concepts and scenarios leading to abundant trading opportunities (various applicable futures trading strategies).
  • The last chapter is designed to integrate basic concepts with quantitative analysis using Python: a taste of algorithmic trading geared towards experienced traders and those who want to take it beyond retail level. 
  • We will build a futures Pairs Trading strategy and backtest from scratch.

At the end of the course, you will have the necessary tools to start trading futures, whether in a traditional or quantitative way.

Dr Tom Starke

CEO of AAA Quants

With Tom's extensive expertise of over 15 years in the field and his valuable collaborations with prestigious hedge funds and proprietary trading firms,
he empowers you to play in the big league of finance too.

Tom has a passion for teaching and sharing his knowledge with others. Drawing from his own experience, he has built AAA Quants Academy as a solution he wished he had when he began his journey.

Now, you too can leverage the condensed
knowledge and expertise on this platform to excel in
quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.
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Contents

1. Introduction

Welcome to the course!
Preview

2. What You Need To Know About Futures

Basic Characteristics
Preview
Codes, Expirations & Maturities
Price Curves
Rolls
Delivery Methods
Margins and Daily Settlement
Quiz

3. How To Trade Futures

Who trades Futures?
Products to trade
Exchanges
Pits vs screens, trading times, brokers and clearers
Quiz

4. More To Know About Futures

Outright vs spreads, tick value, minimum price movements
Figures & volatility, backwardation & contango
Types of trading strategies
Types of trading strategies (2)
Quiz

5. Bonus: Example Futures Strategy in Python

Quantitative analysis of futures trading
Building a futures pairs trading strategy
Building a backtest
Python notebook
Quiz

6. Conclusion

Final remarks