Since 1865, when the futures contract came into being in the USA, day trading futures has increased in thousands of times and the real volumes of this trade does not know anyone. Indeed, The US futures industry has been growing until recent events led the greatest economy to the deepest recession, which they did not see since 1930's. Day trading capacity is tremendous, but it may have some undesirable consequences though.

Online futures trading is another way to do the same thing and now most of day trading futures are conducted online, which is natural because the number of places at exchanges are limited in comparison to the limitless capabilities of the Internet. Despite the day trading futures rules are strict and getting more and more strict, especially in the EU, the speculative nature of day trading futures market is unchangeable, otherwise, it is impossible to make profit and, thus, move funds. The mechanics of speculations is pretty simple: in case the price of futures contracts moves up, this relatively high leverage may result to one's high profit compared to the initial margin. In case the price goes down, the same leverage is producing large losses respectively. Shortly, leverage is a sort of two-edged sword, which is key in understanding how the whole thing works. One's own anticipations are moving funds to buy or sell, and ticking indicators shows the actual direction to loss or profit. All things are easy if one understands them, otherwise, one cannot get a clue at all.