Trade Futures with CCTrader
Spot and Futures. One trading terminal. Go long or short, use leverage, manage risk, and control your positions with CCTrader's Futures trading tools.
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CCTrader connects to your exchanges through exchange APIs and provides the interface and trading workflow. Futures Trading brings long/short direction, leverage, advanced position management, and position-sizing tools into that same experience — alongside Spot Trading.
Why Trade Futures?
Futures gives traders additional possibilities beyond buying an asset and waiting for the price to rise.
Long & Short
Trade both sides of the market. Go LONG when you expect price to rise, or SHORT when you expect it to fall.
Leverage
Choose the market exposure that fits your trade using Futures leverage and margin. Higher exposure also means higher risk.
Higher-volume markets
Futures markets often have more trading activity than equivalent Spot markets, giving access to deeper and more active markets.
Potentially lower fees
Futures markets can offer lower trading fees than Spot markets, depending on the connected exchange and your fee tier.
Advanced order management
Manage positions with tools such as Take Profit / Stop Loss, OCO where supported, and position-aware closing controls.
Position sizing & risk management
Use CCTrader's Position Size Assistant to calculate trade size and plan risk before entering a position.
Plan the trade before you place it
Use CCTrader's Position Size Assistant to calculate an appropriate position size based on your capital and chosen risk parameters — directly inside your trading workflow.
Margin
Size based on the margin and capital available through the selected exchange connection.
Total Portfolio
Alternatively, size using your total portfolio across exchanges marked as included in the Portfolio dashboard.
The Position Size Assistant is a decision-support and calculation tool. It helps you plan position size and risk before entering a trade — it does not remove trading risk or guarantee appropriate risk levels.
Long & Short
Unlike normal Spot Trading, Futures allow traders to take directional positions both ways.
LONG
Open a long position when you expect the market to rise.
SHORT
Open a short position when you expect the market to fall.
Leverage & Margin
Futures support leverage, allowing you to take a larger market position relative to the margin allocated to the trade. Increased exposure also increases risk.
Cross Margin
Share margin across positions on the connected exchange account, depending on exchange support and your account settings.
Isolated Margin
Limit margin to an individual position, helping contain risk to that trade when supported by the exchange.
Your Cross or Isolated preference can be remembered in CCTrader, while leverage is typically set per trade.
TP/SL & Advanced Orders
Futures trading in CCTrader supports more sophisticated trade and position management. Availability of individual order types can depend on the connected exchange.
When you explicitly close a position, CCTrader can apply position-closing behavior such as reduce-only, helping ensure the order reduces the existing position rather than unintentionally opening exposure in the opposite direction.
Supported Exchanges
Futures functionality is available through selected exchange connections. Features and order types depend on what each exchange supports.
See all connected exchanges on the Pricing page, or learn how to create API keys in Learn → Exchanges.
Risk notice
Futures and leveraged trading involve significant risk. Leverage increases market exposure and can magnify losses as well as gains. You can lose capital. The Position Size Assistant helps you plan and calculate risk before entering a trade — it does not protect against losses or make trading safe.
Ready to trade Spot and Futures?
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