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Absolutely. If you don't have a plan (a trading style, numerical model, etc.), which has been demonstrated to produce positive results, you might as well not even risk it. That's why, if someone is interested in trading the index futures, like ES, YM, NQ, I suggest developing a plan and...

Interesting philosophy. Saying leverage in futures is meaningless is equivalent to saying speed is meaningless when you drive a car. The key to survival in this game is how quickly you can react when things go wrong, and how badly you get hurt when you don't react quickly enough.

One thing that helped me make the transition from stocks to futures was to start out treating the futures as if they were stocks. In the case of the S&P 500 e-minis, these would be stocks worth about $56,200 per share. How would you fund a brokerage account if you wanted to buy a stock...