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Commodity Futures Curriculum

Course Agenda

Day 1

First Morning Session:

• Introduction (student & instructor) and student experience
• Overview of 2 day course
• Introducing Commodity Futures
• Why Trade Futures?
• Taxes
• Why Commodities are good to trade now

Second Morning Session:

• What is a Futures contract and Delivery Months?
• Margin / Leverage
• Selling Short in the Futures Markets
• Limit Moves
• Volume and Open Interest (Unique to Futures Markets)

Lunch

First Afternoon Session:

• Largest Exchanges and their products offered
• Functions of Clearing Firms, Exchanges and Brokers
• Roles of the National Futures Association (NFA) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• Brokers (Electronic / Pit) and Questions to ask your Broker when opening an account
• Participants of the Futures Markets (Small/Large Speculators and Commercials)

Second Afternoon Session:

• Risk & Money Management Skills for Futures
• Psychology for Futures Trading
• Review Day's Material

Day 2

Morning Session:

• Trading Plans / Journals for Futures
• Hedging (Basic example of a Commodity Hedge)
• Spreads (Using Spreads to control Risk)
• Options Primer (Using Options to control Risk and Establish Positions)

Second Morning Session:

• CFTC Commitment of Traders Report
• Normal & Inverted Markets
• Relative Strength to Pick a Contract to Trade
• Seasonal Patterns
• Putting a Commodity in your “Sights” with Fundamental Analysis
• Where to find Fundamental Statistics for your Commodity (USDA, DOE,etc)
• Technical Analysis (Futures are more Technically Driven than Equities)
• Identifying Support / Resistance Levels

Lunch

Afternoon Session:

• Tools to Identify Trends
• How to use Oscillators to trade Futures
• Using Multi-Time Frame Analysis to increase your Profits
• Steps to Pulling it all together
• Review Day's Materials