Standardized Contracts
Contract size, expiration, settlement, and minimum price movement are defined in advance.
FUTURES
Systematic Thinking in Leveraged Markets
ExitPoints has researched futures markets and trading systems.
Futures provide access to commodities and financial markets through standardized contracts, but leverage and volatility require disciplined risk management.
THE BASICS
What makes futures different?
Long or Short
Futures can provide direct exposure to rising or falling markets.
Leverage
A relatively small amount of margin can control greater market exposure, magnifying gains and losses.
SYSTEMATIC FUTURES TRADING
Rules for markets that move quickly.
Futures can react rapidly to supply and demand, economic data, interest rates, geopolitical events, weather, and market sentiment.
Predefined methods can establish how a strategy handles entry, direction, position size, hedging, risk, and exits.
FUTURES HEDGING
Changing exposure, not eliminating risk.
A futures hedge may offset some of the directional exposure created by another position.
The hedge itself can gain or lose money, so it should be evaluated as part of the complete strategy.
Corn
Agricultural futures market with actively traded options.
Bonds
Interest-rate futures providing exposure to U.S. Treasury markets.
Micro S&P 500
Smaller-sized futures exposure to the S&P 500 equity index.
Euro Currency
Currency futures reflecting movements between the euro and U.S. dollar.
Micro Nasdaq
Micro futures exposure to the technology-focused Nasdaq-100 index.
Micro Crude Oil
Smaller-sized futures exposure to movements in the crude oil market.
30 Yr Bonds
Long-term U.S. Treasury futures sensitive to interest-rate movements.
More Markets Ahead
ExitPoints continues to research new markets and opportunities for future strategy development.
EXITPOINTS FUTURES STRATEGIES
Research applied through systematic methodologies.
EP-AIM™
The ExitPoints futures methodology, combining a weekly options campaign with systematic futures hedging.
Explore EP-AIM →EP-PROFIT™
A parallel implementation of the underlying EP-AIM methodology using a different market basket and distribution relationship.
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