What's moving in futures, and why.
FP Terminal puts the whole futures board on one screen: the biggest moves across index, rates, energy, metals, FX and ags, the headline or data release behind each one, what's due next on the calendar, and how options dealers are positioned. It's built for traders who make their own calls.
Free trial: 3 full trading sessions, then $99 a month. Creating an account is free; your card is collected at checkout, and if you cancel before the trial ends you aren't charged.
The futures board is quiet. Ivey PMI (Sep) · CAD/6C printed 58.2 vs 65.2 expected. VIX 15.01 (-0.51).
No gainers on the board
No decliners on the board
- Ivey PMI (Sep) · CAD/6C58.2 vs 65.2
This is the panel members open first, live. The full version is free on the market page
Four questions, answered all day
Every panel in FP Terminal answers one of them. The live brief above is the summary; the terminal goes deeper on each line.
All 24 futures ranked by their 24-hour move, each one's range against a normal day, and VIX, VXN and the yield curve alongside.
Index, rates, energy, metals, FX, ags
NQ and ES stream live; the rest on 1-minute bars
Breaking headlines, company filings, central-bank speakers and geopolitics, each tagged to the futures it touches, so the reason sits next to the price.
Headlines within seconds
8-K filings read in a sentence
Every high- and medium-impact release with the consensus before it prints and the actual minutes after, plus central-bank meetings and the earnings that move the indexes.
Consensus → actual → surprise
2026–27 central-bank dates
Dealer gamma for NQ, ES, YM and RTY, described by what it does to moves: cushioning them or adding to them. A 3D strike-by-expiry map, $1M+ options prints, the QQQ, SPY and IWM volatility surface, and prediction-market odds on the macro.
Gamma is context, never a buy or sell
Futures don't stop at four o'clock
Most CME futures trade from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern, Sunday evening through Friday afternoon. The terminal follows the whole day and writes a brief at each handoff, posted in the terminal and in the members' Discord.
Asia, after the reopen
Yen, Aussie, crude and gold, written on the first prints after the 6 p.m. reopen.
Asia open
Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong flow, and what London inherits.
London pre-open
FX majors, Brent-led crude, metals and index futures into the European open.
US data
Releases land on the calendar with the consensus and the surprise within minutes of the print.
New York pre-open
The board after the 8:30 data and before the cash open: movers, catalysts, dealer positioning and the day's schedule.
New York midday
What the tape has done so far and what is still due before the close.
We tested the popular setups. None of them held up.
Before the desk publishes a method, it writes the test down and runs it on years of tape, net of costs. Level breakouts, opening-range breaks, gamma-wall entries and gap continuation all failed. When the desk's own daily picks showed no edge either, it retired them in October 2026.
So the terminal sticks to what you can check for yourself: what moved, why, and what is on the calendar. The trade is yours.
Trading a funded account?
The discipline desk checks each idea against your account's rules before the order goes in: approved contracts, the 5 to 6 p.m. flat window, news blackouts, and a size that survives ten losses in a row. The prop-trader guide is free.
$99 a month. The first 3 full trading sessions are free.
One membership covers every panel, the session briefs and the Discord. A session is a U.S. futures trading day that opens after you start checkout, so a Friday-night signup still gets its full trial. Nothing is charged during the trial.
- Create a free accountEmail or Google. The account alone never starts a subscription.
- Start the trial at checkoutStripe shows the price, the trial end date and the renewal terms before you agree to anything.
- Open FP TerminalIt runs in your browser at app.futuresplaybook.com. Manage billing or cancel from your account page.
Free trial: 3 full trading sessions, then a recurring monthly subscription. Your card is collected at checkout and charged when the trial ends unless you cancel first. Any applicable taxes are shown before payment.
- FP Terminal, the futures market-intelligence terminal at app.futuresplaybook.com
- The Market Brief: the biggest moves across 24 futures, VIX and rates, dealer-gamma regime, today's calendar and catalysts
- The desk wire: breaking headlines, single-stock catalysts, central banks and geopolitics, tagged to the futures they move
- Economic calendar with consensus → actual, plus the 2026–27 central-bank calendar
- Dealer gamma walls for NQ, ES, YM and RTY, the 3D strike × expiry landscape, and a Pine overlay per book
- Options floor ($1M+ prints), the QQQ/SPY/IWM vol surface and prediction-market odds
- London, New York and Asia session briefs, in the terminal and the members' Discord, with live rooms and alerts
- The discipline desk for prop and funded accounts, Ask the Desk, and a journal private to your account
No brokerage connection and no account management. Futures involve substantial risk of loss.
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The week in markets.
Free every Sunday: the week's biggest futures moves, what printed against consensus, and next week's calendar.
One email a week. Unsubscribe from any issue. General research, not trading advice.
Where the order happens
FP Terminal is for reading the market; you trade on your own platform. These are the charting platforms, brokerages and prop firms linked from the terminal, in no particular order. A listing is not an endorsement, and our only commercial relationship is the one marked Affiliate.
- QuantVPSAffiliate
Trading VPS for NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, Sierra Chart and TradingView, with a Chicago data center near CME.
Affiliate link: Futures Playbook may earn a commission if you sign up through it, at no extra cost to you.
Questions
What is FP Terminal?
A market-intelligence terminal for futures traders. It shows live quotes and the 24-hour board, the news and catalysts behind each move, the economic and central-bank calendars with consensus, dealer gamma and options flow, and a brief for each session. It runs in your browser at app.futuresplaybook.com; Futures Playbook is where you create your account and manage your membership.
Is it a signals service?
No. It gives you context (what is moving, why, and what is scheduled) and names no trades. Our own pre-registered studies found no mechanical entry rule that held up after costs, and when the desk's daily picks showed no edge on the tape it retired them in October 2026. The platform does not place trades or give personal advice.
Which markets does it cover?
The board scans 24 futures: index futures (NQ, ES, YM, RTY), energy and metals (CL, NG, GC, SI, HG), treasuries (ZT, ZF, ZN, UB), the FX majors (6E, 6B, 6J, 6A, 6C, 6S, 6N) and the ags (ZS, ZW, ZL, LE), with the matching micros sized from their parent. Crypto appears as market context. Dealer gamma covers the four index books.
What can I see without paying?
Today's market brief is free on the market page: the biggest moves, VIX and the 10-year, the dealer-gamma regime, the day's calendar with consensus and actual, and the catalysts on the wire, refreshed every five minutes. The membership adds the full terminal, the session briefs, the Discord, live rooms and alerts.
I trade a prop-firm account. Is this for me?
Yes. Beyond the market intelligence, the discipline desk checks each idea against your account's rules: approved contract, the 5 to 6 p.m. flat window, news blackouts, and size that survives ten straight losses. Start with the free prop-trader guide.
Do I need a VPS or special hardware?
No. FP Terminal runs in your browser. If you keep a trading platform running around the clock or automate orders from alerts, a trading VPS keeps it online close to the exchange. QuantVPS is one option: trading VPS for NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, Sierra Chart and TradingView, with a Chicago data center near CME. Affiliate link: Futures Playbook may earn a commission if you sign up through it, at no extra cost to you.
Is this personalized trading advice?
No. Research is standardized. The platform does not assess your finances, decide suitable position sizes, manage your account or place trades for you.
Does creating an account charge me?
No. Creating an account does not start a subscription or authorize a payment. A separate checkout shows the price, the 3-session free trial and the recurring billing terms for your explicit agreement; the first charge lands when the trial ends unless you cancel before then.
What counts as a trading session?
A U.S. futures trading day, Monday to Friday, excluding the exchange holidays when U.S. futures and stock markets are fully closed. A session counts only if it opens (9:30 a.m. ET) after you start checkout, and the trial ends at 5 p.m. ET on the last one. Your account page shows the exact end date and time before you check out.
How do I manage or cancel a subscription?
Open your account and choose Manage billing. Stripe's customer portal handles payment methods, invoices and cancellation at the end of the paid period. Deleting a login or unsubscribing from email is not a billing cancellation.
Who operates Futures Playbook?
The Futures Playbook LLC, a Florida limited liability company. The research platform was built by Dr. Alex Djahankhah.