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SMT Trading Futures: How Smart Money Divergence Works
Most retail traders follow price action in a single market. But what if you could see when smart money is favoring one market over another before a...
Futures Tick Value Explained for Beginner Traders
Futures trading can seem overwhelming at first, but it all comes down to understanding how prices move and how those moves affect your profit and...
Futures Trading Signals: What Traders Watch For
Futures traders are always looking for an edge. Some rely on experience, others on data, and many use trading signals to help spot trade...
Futures Trading Sessions Every Trader Should Know
Futures trading is a 24-hour game, but not all hours are created equal. Around the world, different sessions bring different levels of volume,...
Futures Prop Trading Explained: How It Really Works
Futures prop trading has become a popular path for new traders looking to grow their skills and access more buying power without risking large...
Trend Following Strategy Explained for New Traders
Trend following is one of the most popular trading strategies out there. It’s used by everyone from solo retail traders to billion-dollar hedge...
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Tickmill’s Founder Ingmar Mattus Announces Launch of MetroTrade
Ingmar Mattus, co-Founder of Tickmill, has announced the launch of MetroTrade, aiming to “revolutionise” futures and options trading for retail...
Exclusive: David Klotz and Ingmar Mattus’ retail futures/options broker MetroTrade goes live
FNG has learned that the new retail futures and options brokerage founded by two fairly well-known names in the online trading space – Tickmill...
Picking a Broker: Futures Discovery Ep. 16
Choosing the right broker is fundamental to your trading success. This process involves several important considerations to ensure you select a...
Exclusive: David Klotz and Ingmar Mattus Discuss Launch of Retail Futures/Options Broker MetroTrade
FNG last week reported that there’s a new firm named MetroTrade LLC which is now registered in the US with the CFTC as an introducing broker and is...
MetroTrade Eyes Opportunity in US Retail Futures Broking
The US futures brokerage market has been contracting for decades with that business becoming increasingly concentrated among fewer and fewer firms...
MetroTrade Monthly
From CME Group deep dives to crypto regulation, from Chicago’s trading legacy to the future of micros, we’ll keep bringing you the content that matters in futures trading.
MetroTrade Monthly: A Shoutout to All the Volunteer Weekend Warriors
MetroTrade Monthly is a monthly newsletter from David Klotz, President of MetroTrade, with thoughts, updates, and reflections from around the...
MetroTrade Monthly: Four Days in November
Welcome to this month's edition of MetroTrade Monthly, our monthly newsletter where MetroTrade President David Klotz shares his experiences and...
MetroTrade Monthly: Manias, Panics, and Crashes
The precipitously downward market move on October 10th, combined with the year-long rally in gold and silver, got me thinking about manias, panics,...
MetroTrade Monthly: The Event Contracts Primer
With the 2025 NFL season recently kicking off, I thought the time was right to examine event contracts utilizing a somewhat modified 6 Ws and 1 H...
A Summer Reading List for Traders
During my annual summer trip to the New Jersey shore, I couldn’t help but notice that my beach read, Den of Thieves by James Stewart, was somewhat...
Mid-Year Industry Updates
For those who missed it, the CFTC recently closed the comment period for public comments on 24/7 Trading[1] and the listing of Perpetual-style...


















