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All Futures trading courses were not created equal. There's a great deal of free futures trading education on the web if you have the time to hunt it down. You can almost always get something useful from a free course, but remember, sometimes you get what you pay for. I hope this collection is helpful.

• A collection of Tutorials on Futures and Options
• A collection of Tutorials on Finance and Investing
• An Introduction To Futures And CommodityTrading
• Another Introduction to the same
• Bridge.com's Money Flow Analysis Tutorial
  By measuring the amount of money coming into or going out from a stock, bond or commodity, supply and demand trends can be qualified. This, in turn, can help identify attractive or overpriced securities. Money flow measures the value of transactions and keeps a running total of the net inflow or outflow of cash.
• Commodity Futures Trading for Beginners
  By Bruce Babcock
• Common Sense Commodities Free Course
  Excellent course, that comes with some amazing goodies to help you learn to trade. Well worth the download.
• Development of Futures Trading
  Since its origins in the 1800’s futures trading has experienced substantial changes relating to the scope of the markets, the nature of risks, the motivation of the participants, the patterns of industry, and the refinement of futures trading and clearing practices.
• Essential Characteristics of the Successful Trader
• Florida International University Courses
  Not for free! A Multimedia Experience: Movies, Sound Explanations of the Material, Links to Important and Key Sites, Photographs, and Coverage of Relevant Material.
• Futures Brochures
  A collection of articles, such as Why Most Futures Traders Lose Money.
• Futures-Investor
  Futures and commodity trading resource centre. Articles, trading software and system reviews, links, etc. Also sells its own trading system and forecasting method that famously turned $20K into $847,187 in 12 months.
• Futures Market Economist
  Index of articles
• Futures Trading Academy
• Habitual Commodity Speculators
  An Analysis of the Profiles and Motivations of Habitual Commodity Speculators.
• Introduction to Futures & Options Markets
• Ken Roberts Students Additional Resources, Articles & Discussions
  Whether you love him or hate him, Ken Roberts is without doubt the best known and most talked about commodity futures educator. It would be remiss to neglect the ongoing education of the people he introduced to trading.
• Kevin's Chart Patterns Analysis Site
• Learn to Daytrade the Emini Simple-as-123
• Misc Invest Futures FAQ and Trading Tutorial
• Trader Talk Tutorial
  A Simple Moving Average Trading System
• Phantom's Gift
  In the Spring of 1997, it became increasingly clear that one participant at the "Futures Talk" forum had unusual trading wisdom and insight and experience, although he sometimes wrote in a vague, mystical way that forced other traders to really think to get his point. His posts became so popular and attracted so many responses and follow up questions that separate threads were set up just for his comments. He was willing to share what he knew about trading exclusively on the Futures magazine forum, yet he did not want his identity known under any circumstances and he did not want the money or accolades that he might have gotten from revealing his ideas. Thus was born the "Phantom of the Pits."
  Well worth reading!
• Recovering Probabilistic Information From Option Markets
  Option pricing models can be used to recover probabilistic information about the prices of the underlying assets without eliciting opinions directly from market participants.
• The Hard Right Edge
• Tips, Tricks & Techniques from Daytrader's Bulletin
• Top Analysts Articles Index
  There are 148 financial veterans in various fields of expertise from six continents listed alphabetically here, who generously share their opinions, reports, research and studies with you. Just click their name for the titles of each analyst's list of work - then click the particular report you wish to read.
• Trading for Beginners: Free On-Line Course
  This lengthy and informative free online course will help give you a solid educational foundation. Courtesy of World Link Futures.