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Best Indicators for Futures Trading: Full Guide
Futures trading moves fast. With leverage, volatility, and time-sensitive opportunities, traders need tools that help them make better decisions....
Order Flow Analysis Explained for Futures Traders
Order flow analysis is a trading technique that lets you see what's happening behind price movements in real time. Rather than relying only on chart...
Futures Rollover: What It Means and How It Works
Futures contracts don’t last forever. Every contract has a set expiration date. But many traders don’t want to exit their positions just because the...
When Do Futures Contracts Expire? A Trader’s Guide
Futures contracts have a built-in expiration date, which makes them different from stocks and other long-term investments. If you trade futures,...
Forward Contract vs Futures Contract: Key Differences
Forward contracts and futures contracts are two of the most important tools in the derivatives market. Both allow parties to agree on a price for a...
Fibonacci Trading for Beginner Futures Traders: How It Works
Fibonacci trading is one of the most popular tools in technical analysis. Futures traders rely on it to identify potential entry points, forecast...
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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: 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...
How Did We Get Here – 25 years of CME Group
Along with the CFTC, the CME Group is also having an anniversary in 2025. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the demutualization of the CME...


















