Futures Trading: Concepts & Strategies

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No, there are no live or classroom sessions in the course. You can ask your queries on community and get responses from fellow learners and faculty members.

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Some of the course material is downloadable such as Python notebooks with strategy codes. We also guide you how to use these codes on your own system to practice further.

We focus on teaching these quantitative and machine learning techniques and how learners can use them for developing their own strategies. You may or may not be able to directly use them in your own system. Please do note that we are not advising or offering any trading/investment services. The strategies are used for learning & understanding purposes and we don't take any responsibility for the performance or any profit or losses that using these techniques results in.

Quantra environment is a zero-installation solution to get beginners to start off with coding in Python. While learning you won't have to download or install anything! However, if you wish to later implement the learning on your system, you can definitely do that. All the notebooks in the Quantra portal are available for download at the end of each course and they can be run in the local system just the same as they run in the portal. The user can modify/tweak/rework all such code files as per his need. We encourage you to implement different concepts learnt from different learning tracks into your trading strategy to make it more suited to the real-world scenario.

No. We provide you guidance on how to create strategy using different techniques and indicators, but no strategy is plug and play. A lot of effort is required to backtest any strategy, after which we fine-tune the strategy parameters and see the performance on paper trading before we finally implement the live execution of trades.

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While both options and futures are derivatives of the underlying asset, the option buyer has an option to buy or reject the option at the time of expiry. In comparison, the futures buyer has an obligation to honour the trade at the time of its expiry. In futures, both buyer and seller is required to post margin. Whereas in Options, only seller is required to post margin.

Trend following trading is a trading strategy where we first identify if an asset is trending. It is usually seen that a trending asset's price does not actually keep increasing, but dips temporarily before rising again. The trend following model developed in the futures trading course waits for the trend to develop before entering the trade. The position is closed when the price goes in the opposite direction rapidly.

The entry condition of a counter trend model is logically opposite to that of the trend following model. It is also called a mean reversion model in certain cases. In this strategy you actually look for dips in an asset whose price is increasing in the long run. The position is closed when the long term trend flips.

No matter how successful a trading strategy is, it cannot predict any unexpected event or announcements. Thus, to reduce the risk, you should never put all your capital in one place. The practice of trading in multiple assets is generally known as portfolio diversification.

In the futures trading course, you not only diversify your capital, but also use the three trading strategies taught in the course to diversify your portfolio further.

Futures are financial contracts where two parties agree to buy or sell an asset at a set price on a specific date in the future. These assets can include commodities like oil or gold, stock indices, or even cryptocurrencies.

Futures trading involves speculating on the price movement of these assets. Traders can profit if they predict correctly whether the price will rise or fall. For instance, if you think the price of oil will go up, you could buy a futures contract now and sell it later at a higher price.
It’s important to note that futures trading often involves leverage, meaning you can trade larger amounts than your initial investment, increasing both potential profits and losses.

Futures trading can be risky due to the use of leverage, which can amplify your potential gain or loss. However, backtesting your trading strategy on historical data can help you understand your strategy performance and adding risk management methods can help mitigate these risks.