Win or lose everybody gets what they want out of the market, or so Ed Seykota famously said to author Jack Schwager for his first Market Wizards book. What do you want to get out of futures trading? If you are looking for thrills and excitement, go take a roller coaster ride. If you are looking for a business opportunity, write out a trading business plan.

Wow. What an amazing response we have received to the launch of Tradovate. We appreciate all the emails, chats, tweets and questions we have received about Tradovate. The common question we are getting is “this sounds too good to be true; is Tradovate for real?”

Why did we do it?

What might 2016 have in store for the futures community? I keep coming back to a trend I’ve been talking about for some time now: the democratization of the futures market.

There is no getting around it, 2015 was a bloodbath for the commodity sector. Barring a few outliers like the cocoa market (which did rally in 2015) most commodities are closing out the year in a sea of red. Commodity demand around the globe fizzled throughout 2015 as advanced industrialized nations struggle to return to post-global financial crisis growth levels.