E-Futures International Tutorials

A collection of twelve tutorial videos to help you determine and get used to the best futures trading platform for your needs and preferences.

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We provide easy-to-follow video tutorials to guide you through the E-Futures International futures trading platform; the topics covered are listed below. Clicking on one will take you directly to that futures trading platform video.

These tutorials are meant to be watched sequentially, but the topics each video covers are listed alongside if you prefer to skip to a video more relevant to your futures trading platform inquiries.

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Chart Overview

Opening Charts

Chart Configuration

Trading from the Chart

Entering an Order from the DOM

Allocation Block

Quotes Configuration

Quotes Overview

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This video is an overview of the E-Futures International futures trading platform, and is separate from the tutorial videos below. Each of the tutorials below addresses a specific futures trading platform topic, while this one gives you a comprehensive presentation.

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How to navigate the chart overview screen and what commodity options trading information is shown on this page.
How to change the time frame
How to view the Depth of Market for the commodity options trading contract being shown
How to customize the tooltip data box
The Properties box
How to configure the futures trading platform chart toolbar, such as adding more commands or removing commands
How to change the future contract being viewed
How to add a drawing tool
How to save a template, and how to save a template as a default

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How to launch a chart: from the quotes window, the view window, or directly from the Depth of Market

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Configuring futures trading chart indicators
Customizing chart appearances and overall functionalities
What each tab in the Properties box is used for
How to adjust the default cross-hair feature
How to add or remove fills from the commodity trading chart
How to remove the position line
How to make the trade lines always appear
How to adjust the time frame at the bottom of the chart
How to lock or unlock latest bar, which unlocks the chart's scrollbar
How to place or remove a space between the space on the left and the contract chart

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How to turn on trade mode and place a trade directly on the futures trading chart
How to place a buy limit, buy stop, sell limit, or sell stop
How to increase or decrease the quantity or price of an order, and how to cancel one or all orders
How to buy or sell at market or exit the position you're currently in on your futures platform
How to open advanced futures orders
How to place an OCO or a trailing stop, and how to turn a sell stop into a trailing stop
How to place a bracket order or a one-leg bracket order

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How to trade from the commodity chart
How to use trade mode
How to select multiple contracts to trade
How to put place a market order on the futures platform
How to put in protective stops

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How to pull up a futures option chain
How to reduce strike prices on the futures trading platform
How to view the depth of the commodities market
How to place a futures order ticket using the market display

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Three ways to add and customize an indicator: toolbar, right-clicking, and properties box
How to change the properties of an indicator
How to remove an indicator
How to add or remove volume
How to draw a trend-line directly on the chart and adjust its properties on the commodity trading platform
How to add text, a call-out, or an arrow
How to remove a drawing

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Bid side and offer side of the Depth of Market
The available prices shown in the DOM
Bid prices, offer prices
Market at the last price
Quantity of commodity contracts traded at the last price
Working or held orders at that price
High and low for the day for the futures contracts of your choice

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Quick-quantity entry
Depth of Market setup
Open order statistics
Auto Sum Bid/Ask
Open Profit/ Loss for the open order
Total Profit/ Loss for that contract

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Quick-quantity entry
Depth of Market setup
Open order statistics
Auto Sum Bid/Ask
Open Profit/ Loss for the open order
Total Profit/ Loss for that contract
Open position price
Number pad and font or color options
OCO, stop, and trailing stops color coding configuration for each commodity contract
Price
Number pad and font or color options
OCO, stop, and trailing stops color coding configuration

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How to place an advanced futures order
How to place an OCO on your futures trading platform
How to place a stop limit or trailing stop
How to place a bracket order on your futures trading platform
How to place an order for only a stop or stop limit bracket on your futures trading platform

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How to create allocation blocks and how they work on the futures platform
How to configure allocation block settings
How to place a trade in the allocation block
How to place a market order
How to view trades

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How to configure the quotes toolbar or restore it to default settings
How to add/remove a command
How to add/remove a quote from the quotes window
How to insert a blank line to separate quotes
How to move a quote up in the quotes window
How to configure column setup that allows traders to view specific contract information
How to export the data from the quotes menu to a spreadsheet (as a CSV file)

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How to undock the quotes window from the main platform
How to make the quotes window independent, allowing you to close the main platform but keep the quotes window up
How to save the quotes window
How to view the quotes window if it was closed
How to add a tab in the quotes window
How to add a single market or an entire market group to the quotes window
How to remove a single, multiple or all markets from the quotes window
How to open a DOM or chart for a selected futures contract

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