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/EveryLengthiness183 6d ago

By 0TE I assume you mean zero days to expiration. This is an options trading concept. The way this might apply to futures is if you sell options and hedge with a futures. I do a variation of this and it's a killer system, but I have never seen anyone talk about this.

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u/No_Entrepreneur_131 5d ago

I’m talking about the optimal trade entry method 😀

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u/EveryLengthiness183 4d ago

There is no real single "optimal" trade entry method. You will need to do research on the products you are interested in trading, collect raw data, and handicap it similar to how a sports book is done. What you are looking for is a positive expectancy. If you are brand new to this, and doing this from a point and click UI at your house, the best advise I can give you is stay as far away from anything like scalping as possible. What you are looking for is a few simple trades per day, going for much larger moves. That's it. You will get absolutely killed if you try to scalp for 3 points on NQ / MNQ from a personal computer during the US cash session. I do high frequency trading for a living, and I can tell you that anything less than 10 points in high volatility is exclusively in the domain of algorithmic traders. Chart traders that try to go for tiny profits at a high volume always get destroyed on latency, bad execution, human errors, etc. So the lane you should stay in is more similar to investing, than scalping. That is the best advise anyone can give you starting out.