Independent Investor

It sounds like a nightmare.  Why would anyone want to put their pension on the futures market?  Yes you could retire rich, but the chances are higher that you will be headed for the poorhouse.  It really does not sound like a good idea.
We will have another post later on this week about what your investment lifetime looks like and how you should deal with futures, contracts for difference and spread bets as part of that, by the way you can’t put spread bets …

Even though the name itself implies about futures trading, in very simple way futures trading is basically the practice of trading that includes buying and selling of a particular commodity with standardized quality at an expiration period and pre-determined market price. Apart from its name factor, when you will have the exposure and experience with direct securities like bonds and stocks, it will be an easy learning for you.
Always remember that the futures contracts are traded on a different platform than these direct securities, …