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Futures vs Stocks, What's Actually Better for Day Trading
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Futures and education for retail traders
- Futures education helps retail traders
- Futures offer broad exposure to indices
- Futures can hedge or trade around core positions
1:29lesson
Futures vs stocks for day trading
- Futures provide direct exposure to tech selling off
- Futures are useful during earnings season
- Futures allow trading around core positions
3:13lesson
Futures liquidity and trading hours
- Futures markets are open 23x5
- Futures are open from 5:00 p.m. Sunday to 4:00 p.m. Friday
- Futures liquidity is critical for overnight positions
4:43NASDAQ· ticker
NASDAQ futures contract sizes
- Mini NASDAQ is worth $600,000
- Micro NASDAQ is worth $60,000
- Nano NASDAQ is worth $6,000
6:36S&P· ticker
S&P futures contract sizes
- Micro E-mini S&P is worth $5 per point
- Micro E-mini S&P has $50 P&L impact for 10-point move
- Futures have multipliers different from stocks
8:32NASDAQ· ticker
Micro NASDAQ margin requirements
- Micro NASDAQ requires $4,500 for overnight
- Micro NASDAQ requires $1,100 for intraday
- Futures margin is much lower than stock margin
10:19lesson
Liquidity and institutional trading
- Futures have high liquidity compared to ETFs
- Institutions trade in futures due to tight bid-ask spreads
- Liquidity is key for institutional traders
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