Futures
Standardized contracts, tick values, leverage, margin, expiration cycles, and nearly round-the-clock sessions.
Contract size, leverage, trading hours, expiration, liquidity, spreads, event sensitivity, and options decay all change the trade.
Standardized contracts, tick values, leverage, margin, expiration cycles, and nearly round-the-clock sessions.
Currency pairs, pips, sessions, spreads, rollover, macro sensitivity, and broker execution.
Shares, liquidity, gaps, earnings risk, sectors, and the relationship between SPY and the index complex.
Calls, puts, strikes, expiration, implied volatility, delta, gamma, theta, vega, and assignment.
Cash settlement, intraday gamma sensitivity, rapid time decay, event risk, and strict position sizing.
Compare liquidity, spread, leverage, transaction cost, time horizon, account constraints, and strategy fit.
Use the practice environment to rehearse decisions without sending a live order.