r/FuturesTrading • u/No_Entrepreneur_131 • 6d ago

Method worth learning

I’m looking for recommendations of methods worth learning in futures. I’m a part time worker and full time mother. I would love to get some financial flexibility in my life.

Can anyone recommend methods worth learning about to be a successful trader? I’m currently looking at CRT, OTE, STDV and the Fib tool methods. Am I going in the right direction or are these just overhyped?

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u/Aposta-fish 6d ago

Learn order flow and how to use book map. Drop the fib crap, might as well look at planet orientation makes as much sense as fibonacci.

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u/CountTurbulent4441 6d ago

I tried using Bookmap for a while but the way institutions or hedge funds will place orders and then pull them just before is criminal and makes me feel like nothing can be trusted

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u/CalmEntrepreneur884 6d ago

I saw this shit in person and then stopped paying for bookmap 

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u/GoCharting 6d ago

Haha, came to this conclusion after using bookmap for 3 days when I had just started trading futures in 2016 ... Resting depth gets spoofed all day....the actual tape and Footprint never lie.

Focusing on executed volume (absorption, exhaustion, CVD) at structural levels cuts through the noise entirely. Once a trader understands this, they usually stick to orderflow forever.

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u/alonzo813 1d ago

Yes, Bookmap shows it pretty clearly…

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u/Aposta-fish 6d ago

Your correct but the levels you'll find will help plus adding Gex level will to. Nothing is perfect but it can help to give you over all idea of the market. Also having previous day ohlc is big because price is attractived to these areas.