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An online future trading is a contract for which a future date is decided to purchase or sell a commodity. In future contracts all things are considered consistent except the cost. In these types of contracts all terms and conditions under which the commodity is purchased or sold is transferred so that no side is vulnerable by the uncertainty. The cost of future contract is determined on future exchange electronic trading system. These electronic trading systems can be easily be used by anyone anywhere in the world just because of the use of internet. Now online future trading system stands guarded by legal rules and regulation which are put down by exchange and CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission).

Advantages of Online Future Trading System

There are many advantages of using online future trading system. Some of them are as follows:

• In online future trading system you need some fraction of total value in cash in your trading account. Thus if you get loss in the trades in future you will not loose much money.
• Earlier traditional pit matches the buys and sells of trades and lots of commission are cut down, but in electronic trade system there is no involvement of any person to match buys and sells and it thus involves cutting of small commission which leads one to save money for regular trading.
• If there is participation of investors it means future contracts are logically liquid. So it depends upon how the liquid on the actual contract is being traded. Electronic trading systems like e-mini's tend to be the most liquid and are easily available while the typical trade commodities pits are not easily available and are generally more costly to trade if we talk about commission and spread.
• Online future trading system allows their traders to directly interface with their trading software. Thus the trades are automatically on the way of exchange with the target as soon as they get signal of buying and selling the trade.
• In online future trading system you need not wait for any broker. The orders are immediately located on the online order book and whenever there is any match found, the orders are filled. If there is availability of liquid then it is done within few seconds.

Like all other trading styles that have advantages and disadvantages, online future trading system has also some disadvantages such as encouraging the trading or overtrading at high risks under a particular strategy can result in loosing more money.  As the electronic online trading system costs little commission and offer tight spreads etc., one should essentially follow a carefully devised money management plan. Before endeavoring online future trading, a carefully developed trading plan must be formulated.