Watched an interesting video on day-trading $1000 without experience #finance
Future contracts can be commodity or financial instrument
Commodities are gold, oil, wood
Financial instrument is S&P index, NASDAQ etc
If you are bullish on the commodity, meaning you think it will go up - you would buy the contract now and sell it in the future
If you are bearish on the commodity, meaning you think it will go down - you would sell the contract now and buy it in the future
Future trading is also leveraged, so the broker applies a multiplier on the amount you are putting as margin
This multiplier depends on various factors
This makes future trading risky
The person started the first few days with extremely high return on investment and just to have it all crash back down
Which is the point, I guess, he was trying to show how much of a gamble this is
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View dark and painful things as metaphorically beautiful is a skill that can help with depression and negative thoughts