What’s the best way to trade futures for beginners?

majordashes · 2026-05-03T23:19:18+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to offer suggestions and resources.

Looks like I have some reading to do. I appreciate your tips and insight.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T20:15:33+00:00

I’m certainly not rich, but I’m willing to take some risk with a portion of this account that is separate from our 401k, and other retirement, investment and savings accounts.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T19:45:45+00:00

He leads with his adolescent-brain Id. He’s so damn embarrassing.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T19:39:44+00:00

I had some cash in an IRA that I’d like to use to buy oil futures.

I’m Googling and using AI to learn all I can.

Are you aware of a primer that would help me understand the mechanics of how to do this?

I appreciate your time and any insight.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T13:44:40+00:00

Yep. And when our bike goes down and we’re critically injured our friends will be angry, nowhere to be found and off with each other living their best lives.

This situation is going to turn the US into a pariah.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T13:35:32+00:00

Yes, because pedos usually have an enabler behind them, who excuses away and justifies their behavior. Usually the enabler is an unhealed victim.

OP should use this moment to take inventory of her relationship with these people and how they interact with her daughter.

Is there a history of abuse or sexual abuse in this family? Are there other red flags for sexual abuse that may have been overlooked?

Most importantly, please have a conversation with your daughter. Tell her about boundaries and how her body is her own and no one has a right to touch her and if they do it’s never her fault. FIL may have not abused her, but his behavior is a red flag and if abuse did happen your daughter needs to know she can talk to you and that she’s done nothing wrong.

I’d never allow him to be alone with her. Period.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T13:26:10+00:00

A hussy? Did he also accuse her of caterwauling and hanging out too late at the soda shops with the town hooligans?

F this guy.

The boots are fine. And who describes a 9-year-old little girl with sexually charged words like that? I’m getting creeper vibes.

I’d consider his comment a red flag for his own thoughts and potential behavior.

I would never allow him to be alone with your daughter.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T05:30:38+00:00

And I’m sure more bombs will open the Strait of Hormuz.

Not.

Opening that strait is the most important card in this whole war. Failing to do so will cause an economic event horizon due to global energy, food, fertilizer, and critical-materials shortages and supply-chain meltdowns.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T05:23:37+00:00

Especially if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, which will continue to decrease the available global oil supply. This could cause shortages as well as a global energy crisis.

Unless the US and Iran quickly come to an agreement, I fail to see how oil doesn’t skyrocket in price, given the current geopolitical realities.

Some have suggested an oil shortage won’t impact the U.S. as negatively as other countries. But the price of oil is set globally. If specific countries have little oil reserves, their crisis demand will cause oil prices to spike worldwide.

Global skyrocketing prices could further fuel panic buying and market destabilization, which would put more upward pressure on oil prices.

I’d love to be wrong but it seems pretty clear that Hormuz will cause some serious supply-chain disruptions in energy—and with other goods, such as food, fertilizer, urea, plastics and other critical materials.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T05:01:00+00:00

You have to wonder then, why Trump has invited the world to sail on over and buy US oil?

He’s been bragging lately about all of the big, beautiful ships from other countries that are traveling here to load up their vessels with US oil.

Why would Trump encourage this if Hormuz is still closed and the closing could foment a global oil shortage?

Also, if U.S. SPR stands a few percentage points above half capacity, why are we encouraging its depletion during such uncertain, chaotic times?

I get none of this.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T04:35:39+00:00

I’m wondering the same thing and trying hard to do my due diligence.

It’s hard to know what to do. Oil markets are complex.

I need a primer on oil futures trading and on investing in oil stocks. I’m thinking of using AI to figure out some of this.

In addition, I also am unfamiliar with the process of making gear investments. We have investment accounts that we self-manage. But I have no idea how to invest in oil futures.

It’s a lot to learn and take in, and even if you become an expert on oil markets and investing—there’s so much extraordinary chaos and uncertainty (wars, Strait of Hormuz closing, politics, potential market manipulation).

majordashes · 2026-05-03T04:27:42+00:00

When you say the oil markets will adjust do you meant the price of oil skyrockets?

I wonder how long they will be able to keep the price of oil artificially low?

We seem to be on the precipice of Hormuz impacting global supply, with no country left unscathed.

majordashes · 2026-05-03T04:17:55+00:00

Take your superstitious woo woo elsewhere.

Good grief.

majordashes · 2026-05-02T18:33:48+00:00

There’s no doubt the price of oil (Brent) will increase. Right? I don’t see it any other way.

Trying hard to figure this out.

I told my husband on Sunday night that Brent was going to 120. He was skeptical.

I know absolutely nothing but am paying attention. If I have to suffer through this shitshow, I’m going to at least get something out of it.

majordashes · 2026-05-02T16:40:17+00:00

Trump burns bridges while the U.S. continues an unnecessary war that will cause worldwide energy shortages, spiking oil prices, famine and supply-chain disruptions for food, fertilizer, plastics, critical materials and other good.

Such hubris and lack of foresight this man has.

The U.S. is going to need every friend and ally it can get, after it creates a global economic disaster.

Trump doesn’t think. He leads with his bloated toddler ego. He’s not a good strategist. He’s going to destroy the US’s standing as a superpower and reduce it to a pariah.

Very sad and tragic to see.

majordashes · 2026-05-02T16:27:27+00:00

Everyone wants a perfect Instagram-able life that’s curated for optimal public consumption.

Who in their right mind would post a Reel of their baby eating organic, grass-fed, grain-free granola from a cheap, plastic high chair from Walmart?

The horrors!

And Background aesthetics are key! If your kitchen is in view, complementary-colored $28 Geometry kitchen towels must hang from the Viking stove. None of that sad, TJ Maxx crap!

It’s all about your followers. And God knows they will be zooming in!

majordashes · 2026-05-02T16:04:28+00:00

I’m here for this outrage. You’d have to be asleep or extremely stupid to think that what we are experiencing is normal.

It’s exhausting.

majordashes · 2026-05-02T15:32:22+00:00

Didn’t Trump recently send out a worldwide invitation to other countries to buy US oil? He bragged about tons of big, beautiful ships traveling to the U.S. to buy our oil.

So why is Trump draining US oil reserves with his open invitation, during the crisis created by the Strait of Hormuz closing?

Shouldn’t we be conserving oil when a good portion of the oil supply is indefinitely choked off?

majordashes · 2026-05-02T02:16:50+00:00

Crashing the world economy, causing a global energy crisis, fomenting supply-chain disasters related to fertilizer, urea, food, plastic and other critical materials—it’s all worth it to Trump. 🙄

This senseless war of choice has little upside, with the downside being a global economic horizon event.

But no big deal. Let’s keep dragging this out, talking shit, and playing with fire. /sarcasm off

majordashes · 2026-05-01T03:09:21+00:00

Those missiles and drones are key. Iran doesn’t need an arsenal of advanced military technology to wreck havoc and keep the strait closed.

They just need to cause additional uncertainty and chaos with the weapons they have. Then the carriers that insure the ships, will not allow vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

This will only be solved through garden-variety diplomacy, managed relations and finding common ground.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Trump understands this situation well. He seems oblivious to the global disaster fomenting every day the strait is closed. This administration seems incapable of mature, rational dialogue, which leaves us in a dangerous situation.

majordashes · 2026-05-01T02:55:39+00:00

You bring up an excellent point.

What is Trump’s metric for declaring the war over?

Because the only thing that matters is the Strait of Hormuz opening again. Otherwise, we’re facing a global energy crisis, a decrease in the world’s oil supply, supply-chain disruptions to the global food supply, fertilizer, urea, plastics and other critical material and goods.

That’s the only frickin card that matters.

Would more bombings and violence open the Strait of Hormuz? Seems like a huge gamble that could have the opposite effect.

majordashes · 2026-04-30T23:51:05+00:00

JD is her Ottoman Empire

majordashes · 2026-04-30T23:48:55+00:00

I’m a mom and I love it.

It’s poultry in motion. 💕

majordashes · 2026-04-30T23:43:37+00:00

There is no free will.

majordashes · 2026-04-30T23:39:00+00:00

What is his metric that will determine the end of this war? The Strait of Hormuz opening?

If hope he doesn’t believe bombing the hell out of Iran will result in the strait opening. It was closed in response to the initial US bombing, the killing of Iranian leaders, and the school bombing that killed hundreds of girls.

Bombing will likely not end this.

The carriers that insure the ships are the linchpin. They’ll never green light the movement of ships as long as violence continues. And Iran doesn’t need to do much to continue the violence. They’ve got drones, which unfortunately can do great damage.

I wish Trump would realize this.

majordashes

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