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Futures Trading Fundamentals

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Carmine Rosato

Carmine Rosato, verified seven-figure futures trader with 10 years of experience and founder of InvestiTrade, walks through everything you need to start trading futures from scratch. Five lessons covering contracts, micros, pricing, order flow, candlesticks, volume profile, and the exact risk framework that keeps you in the game long enough to build an edge.

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What You’ll Learn in Carmine Rosato’s Futures Trading Fundamentals Masterclass

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This free masterclass is Carmine Rosato’s complete walkthrough of futures trading from the fundamentals to live execution. You’ll learn what a futures contract actually is (a binding agreement where both the buyer AND seller must fulfill the obligation at expiration, unlike options), the history from 1900s wheat farmers hedging against unpredictable harvests through modern cash-settled instruments like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, and why Carmine primarily trades these two indices because they are extremely liquid markets that revert to the mean.

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Carmine then teaches his playbooks: trend identification using higher highs/lows and lower highs/lows, long entries on pullbacks into demand or old resistance in uptrends, short entries on rallies into old support or supply in downtrends, mean reversion setups when markets stretch too far from the mean, and continuation breakouts of consolidation ranges confirmed by aggressive volume. He closes with his single rule for exits: only two ways to close a position, your stop loss hits or your target hits. Everything else is noise.

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What’s Inside the 

Futures Trading Fundamentals

All Lessons

01

Introduction to Futures Trading

19:0
02

Contract Pricing and Micro Contracts

17:00
03

Contract Symbols, Trading Hours, and Market Correlations

10:00
04

Candlesticks, Chart Patterns, Order Types, and Volume Profile

36:00
05

Strategy, Risk Management, and Building a Repeatable Edge

17:00

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Carmine Rosato, 7 figure futures trader

About the Instructor,

Carmine Rosato

Carmine Rosato is a full-time futures trader, educator, and the founder of InvestiTrade. He is known for a structured, data-driven approach built around order flow, supply and demand, market profile, and futures execution. His reputation is tied above all to order flow: reading the market through context, volume, and execution rather than basic pattern recognition. Carmine’s edge comes from understanding where business is actually taking place, teaching traders to read the auction, identify the levels that matter, and act with real context instead of guessing.


Carmine started learning to trade in 2016 while still in high school, obsessed with how professional traders actually operate. At Manhattan College, where he studied accounting and finance and competed as a track athlete, he spent every free hour on charts, price action, and futures. He made a deal with his father: if he could generate a six-figure trading income while still in school, he could skip the corporate route and trade full time. He hit that goal by the end of his sophomore year and went full time shortly after. Through his InvestiTrade community, he has worked with thousands of traders worldwide through courses, live coaching, and community mentorship.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are futures?

Futures are standardized contracts that bind a buyer and seller to transact a specific asset at a set price on a future date. They were originally created in 1848 at the Chicago Board of Trade to let farmers lock in prices for their crops, and today they’re used to trade everything from stock indexes (S&P 500, Nasdaq) to commodities (oil, gold) and currencies. Futures trade on centralized exchanges like the CME, with built-in leverage, 24/6 hours, no pattern day trader rule, and favorable 60/40 tax treatment.

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What is the Futures Trading Fundamentals Masterclass about?

A free five-lesson series with Carmine Rosato covering everything you need to start trading futures from scratch. It covers what a futures contract is, how contracts are priced in points and ticks, why micro contracts are the right starting point, how to decode futures symbols and trading hours, candlesticks and chart patterns, order types, volume profile, and a full strategy framework with risk management.

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Who is Carmine Rosato?

Carmine Rosato is a full-time futures trader, educator, founder of InvestiTrade, and a seven-figure trader with 10 years of experience trading the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

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What markets does the masterclass focus on?

Primarily the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, the two markets Carmine trades professionally. The fundamentals apply to any CME futures market, including oil and VIX, which are also covered.

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Is the Futures Trading Fundamentals Masterclass free?

Yes. All five lessons are free to watch on Chart Academy.

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Chart Academy is a free, all-in-one trading education platform designed to help traders learn real, practical skills from world-class traders. It offers in-depth masterclasses taught by real traders across stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto, and trading psychology.

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