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Market Analysis
Learn the tools analysts use to read the market, and the limits of each one.
Guides
Understanding Futures Trading Signals: What They Are and How to Judge Them
A signal is just a rule that flags a pattern. Here's how signals work, why backtests mislead, and how to check out anyone selling them. FuturesSignal doesn't sell signals.
The Economic Calendar: Reports That Move Futures Markets
A handful of scheduled government reports can move futures prices in seconds. Here's what they are, when they come out, and which markets tend to react.
The Commitments of Traders (COT) Report Explained
Every week the CFTC publishes who holds what in the futures markets. Here's how to read the COT report, and what it can't tell you.
Volume and Open Interest in Futures, Explained
Volume counts contracts traded. Open interest counts contracts still open. Together they tell you how active, and how crowded, a market is.
Technical Analysis Basics for Futures Traders
Technical analysis studies price and volume to describe what a market is doing. It's a useful map, as long as you remember it isn't a forecast.
Fundamental Analysis Basics for Futures Markets
Fundamental analysis asks what's driving supply and demand underneath the price. Here's how it works across commodity and financial futures.
Analysis is not prediction
Reports, indicators, and chart patterns describe what has happened and help you frame scenarios. None of them tells you what will happen next. Pair any analysis with a risk plan.