In my ongoing effort to learn about the various futures markets, contracts, and their respective values and margin requirements, I have come accross a number of sites with invaluable information.

THIS SITE offers the most comprehensive list of futures contracts including the exchange they trade on, the size of a contract, the months they are traded, as well as the value of each tick movement… The only thing not included is the symbol codes for the various contracts.

The symbols for the various contracts can be found At This Website

I just finished working on a spreadsheet that incorporates the two so that you can have a quick & easy reference for all the major futures contracts that are traded as well as their $ values on a per tick basis plus their symbols for when you want to look up their charts.

It can be Downloaded Here.

A quick note on the symbols. Many of them are both floor traded and electronically traded. The electronic contracts are the ones with parenthesis around them in column A.

Hubert Senters put out a good, short video yesterday on how to trade the FOMC announcement that will be put out today at 2:15pm.

Here’s the link: http://www.tradethemarkets.com/video/feddayprep/feddayprep.html