Futures hours, flat time and the Sunday open
When CME futures trade, when the daily maintenance break is, what flat time means on a prop account at 4:15 or 4:45 pm ET, and how the Sunday open affects you.
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Futures basics: articles
Futures basics for prop traders: contracts, ticks, margins, sessions, drawdown types and the vocabulary used in every StarTrading rule, with worked examples.
What is a trailing drawdown?
A trailing drawdown is a loss limit that follows your account balance upward. End-of-day and intraday versions, the lock, and worked examples on a 100K account.
What moves ES, NQ, CL and GC prices
The scheduled data, earnings, oil inventories and dollar moves that drive ES, NQ, CL and GC futures, and how to plan a session around them on a prop account.