Gain a better understanding of futures trading, including contract specifications like tick size, contract size, delivery, and margin requirements.

Like many derivative products, futures can be confusing when you’re trying to understand how changes in the underlying security affect changes in futures prices which affect changes in your margin. This video shows you how these relationships work and what it means for your initial margin, maintenance margin, and margin calls. Futures and futures options trading is speculative, and is not suitable for all investors. Please read the Risk Disclosure for Futures and Options https://www.tdameritrade.com/retail-en_us/resources/pdf/TDA631.pdf prior to trading futures products. This video is part of the Fundamentals of Futures Trading course. Open an account to get access to the full course and more investor education: http://bit.ly/SignUpTDAmeritrade Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritrade Check out Trader Talks for daily livestreamed webcasts with TD Ameritrade education coaches: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritradeTraderTalks We post educational videos that bring investing and finance topics back down to earth weekly. Have a question or topic suggestion? Let us know. Connect with TD Ameritrade: Facebook: http://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterTDAmeritrade

Hedging with futures may help reduce risk in a portfolio by potentially offsetting losses during market downswings. The leverage that futures offer makes them an excellent vehicle for hedging because a small investment allows you to control a large asset. In this video, you’ll learn how to hedge your portfolio using futures. Futures and futures options trading is speculative, and is not suitable for all investors. Please read the Risk Disclosure for Futures and Options https://www.tdameritrade.com/retail-en_us/resources/pdf/TDA631.pdf prior to trading futures products. This video is part of the Fundamentals of Futures Trading course. Open an account to get access to the full course and more investor education: http://bit.ly/SignUpTDAmeritrade Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritrade Check out Trader Talks for daily livestreamed webcasts with TD Ameritrade education coaches: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritradeTraderTalks We post educational videos that bring investing and finance topics back down to earth weekly. Have a question or topic suggestion? Let us know. Connect with TD Ameritrade: Facebook: http://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterTDAmeritrade

Beta weighting is a portfolio management technique that allows experienced investors to manage a complex portfolio of stocks, futures, and options without constantly calculating notional values. With beta weighting, investors can use greeks like delta to measure how an entire portfolio, including leveraged investments like options and futures, may respond to market movement. This video shows you how to use thinksorswim\u00ae paperMoney\u00ae to beta weight a portfolio to determine how many futures contracts to use to hedge a stock portfolio with futures. This video is part of the Fundamentals of Futures Trading course. Open an account to get access to the full course and more investor education: http://bit.ly/SignUpTDAmeritrade Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritrade To learn more about options, tune in weekly to the All About Options webcast for livestreamed interactive sessions with TD Ameritrade education coaches: https://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeAllAboutOptions We post educational videos that bring investing and finance topics back down to earth weekly. Have a question or topic suggestion? Let us know. Connect with TD Ameritrade: Facebook: http://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterTDAmeritrade

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritrade In May 2019, the CME Group launched Micro E-mini futures contracts for four major U.S. stock indices: S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Russell 2000. This video explains why these contracts were created and lists their basic contract specifications. We post educational videos that bring investing and finance topics back down to earth weekly. Have a question or topic suggestion? Let us know. Connect with TD Ameritrade: Facebook: http://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterTDAmeritrade Open an account with TD Ameritrade: http://bit.ly/SignUpTDAmeritrade

In this video, you'll learn about the potential risks and benefits of trading Treasury futures and how institutions and traders use them to manage changes in interest rates. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTDAmeritrade To learn more about futures, tune in weekly to the Getting Started with Futures webcast for livestreamed interactive sessions with TD Ameritrade education coaches: https://bit.ly/GettingStartedFutures TD Ameritrade is where smart investors get smarter. We post educational videos that bring investing and finance topics back down to earth weekly. Have a question or topic suggestion? Let us know. Connect with TD Ameritrade: Facebook: http://bit.ly/TDAmeritradeFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterTDAmeritrade Open an account with TD Ameritrade: http://bit.ly/SignUpTDAmeritrade