In the beginning of the century the futures contracts started to be used especially in the USA (Chicago and New York) to buy or sell a certain amount of commodity in advance (food, wood, metals...).

The profit is made on the variation of the price, which can move upside or downside.
At present this industry accounts for operations amounting to billions of dollars daily and the majors contracts are very liquid and easy to trade with a reasonable amount of margin.

The full price of the commodity doesn't have to be paid and this is the reason why the profit (or loss) is substantial in regard to the amount initially invested.
In the last 30 years new contracts have been added for currencies, interest rates, stock market indexes (SP)...

Why trade in futures contracts

The major contracts cover the financial industry worldwide and are a practical way to profit from the major market movements.

Recent developments (the Japanese crisis for instance) show that there is no guaranty that the current situation, the western stock markets moving upwards, will continue indefinitely.

Trading in futures market puts the investor on a positive position enabling him to profit in both upwards or downwards situations.
Usually this market is not accessible to the general public because it requires a high level of sophisticated technical analysis.

Trading in futures can be very painful in the short term without the help of technical tools.
The net profit is calculated based on the difference between the profit and the loss of the daily operations.

The movements of the stock markets are instantaneously reflected in contracts like the SP index.
These contracts influence the markets so significantly that it is very common to see variations of the stock market created by future contracts (notably during down sessions).

It is also important to note that these contracts are being used by pension funds with large portfolios (hedging position in falling markets).
Unfortunately this sophisticated hedging approach is not available to the individual traditional investor, who is obliged either to wait or to liquidate his positions.

Analysis of the benefits of this concept as compared to other systems and methods

A lot of technical indicators of the financial community are well known (from moving average to oscillators...)
Years of testing and experience have shown that they individually produce inconsistent results.

The FT6-n concept is a sophisticated proprietary interface which allows to add any quantity of new technical indicators and produce a single output usable to trade a single contract.
The interface and the formulas included in the software are equal for all markets.

Each day of the last 200 days of trading are considered for the analysis of the next position.
This particular interface enables the addition of new subsystems in the future if such new subsystems are able to improve (or smooth) the final results.

No individual adjustment of parameters per market contract is permitted for quality software development motivations.

DISCLAIMER:

FUTURES TRADING MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. THERE IS A RISK OF LOSS IN FUTURES TRADING. ATC TRADING FUTURES IS NOT A BROKER. THE TRADES AND INFORMATION HERE ARE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY REFLECTING TRADES THAT ATC TRADING FUTURES IS INITIATING IN HIS OWN ACCOUNT, AND ARE NOT DESIGNED TO BE TRADING ADVICE. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS. ANY TRADING DECISIONS YOU MAKE SHOULD BE YOUR OWN AND REFLECT YOUR PERSONAL LEVEL OF RISK AND SITUATION.