DGCX Commodity & Currency Futures Half Day Workshop (4.5 hours) 
 

8.30am / 3.00pm Start of Workshop

• Definition of a futures contract
• Origins and evolution of the futures markets
• An explanation of ‘trading on margin’ (gearing/leverage)
• An explanation of ‘going short’
• Futures contracts uses...hedging (protection).....and/or speculation

Coffee Break

• Trading Tools: technical analysis (price forecasting).......recognising price patterns
• Information sources.....media/subscription newsletters/volumes and ‘open interest’
• Trading discipline/risk management......understanding the most important principles of futures trading
• Using the markets as an information source: ‘What do the futures markets tell us?’
• Q&A session

1.00pm / 7.30pm End of Workshop