If you're brand new to futures investing and trading you can learn to go from financial mediocrity to financial prosperity in the time it takes you to read this entire book. This book details what it will take for a brand new beginner trader to become a consistently profitable futures investor and trader in today's financial markets working against the best futures investors and traders in the world. When you are done reading this book you will have an excellent basic explanation of what and what not to do before you even study anything or do any kind of education. The information in this book will put you on the fast track to becoming a successful self-directed futures investor and trader with very little money invested other than the cost of this book and will enable you to make some money right away if you are careful to follow the rules. This book gives a brand new futures trader the truth of what happens in real life, in real time and in real money in the live markets every day. There are no short cuts and you must do the education and training time if you want to become a rich futures trader. I try to keep the explanations in this book clear concise, simple and uncomplicated. This book gives you substantial value and is going to be the foundation of your pre education as a brand new futures trader. Simple, basic and easy to understand, if I can give you one word of advice as a new futures trader at this point, I will tell you to keep it simple because trading really is simple if you keep it that way. You do not need any indicators or fancy systems, methods or complicated software. The market only works on supply and demand and it is the only thing that moves price on a chart from one value area to another. Doesn't it make sense then to study what makes the market do what it does and use that as your trading method?