The Futures Doctor

The Futures Doctor

Precision trading, prescribed.

Futures trading explained plainly: what the contracts are, how margin and risk actually work, how prop firm rules shape your trading, and the routines that keep you in the game. Two books and the working tools that go with them. No indicators to buy, no signals, no course upsell.

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Sixteen chapters each, written to be worked through in order.

The books

Written by a funded futures trader under the pen name The Futures Doctor. Delivered as direct downloads in PDF and EPUB. Personal-use license; no DRM.

Cover of Futures Trading for Beginners: The Real Guide Nobody Else Will Write

Futures Trading for Beginners

The Real Guide Nobody Else Will Write

A plain-language guide to futures contracts, margin, order types, position sizing, and the habits that keep new traders in the game.

Most beginner trading books explain what a candlestick is and stop there. This one starts at the contract: what a futures contract actually is, how margin and daily settlement work, why tick values matter, and which products (ES, NQ, MES, MNQ, crude, gold) make sense as a first market. Then the practical work — position sizing based on stop distance, a risk framework with daily loss limits, the economic calendar, a written trading plan, and a chapter on the behavioral biases that end most trading careers early. It closes with an honest look at prop firms and a 90-day roadmap from paper trading to small live size.

Sixteen chapters in three parts. 197 pages. For people who have never traded futures, and stock or options traders moving to futures.

$14.99PDF + EPUB download

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Cover of The Prop Firm Playbook: The Math of Evaluations, Funded Accounts, and the Trader Who Survives Them

The Prop Firm Playbook

The Math of Evaluations, Funded Accounts, and the Trader Who Survives Them

How prop firms make money, how their rules shape your trading, and how to work inside them without wrecking your process.

Prop firm rules are not neutral. Trailing drawdowns, consistency rules, and payout schedules change how you trade, usually for the worse. This book explains why, and what to do about it: how firms make money, what to look for and avoid when choosing one, building a challenge-ready strategy, sizing positions for a funded account, managing several accounts, and planning payouts. The centerpiece is a behavioral finance framework — ten researched biases mapped to the moments prop trading triggers them, with a self-audit. Five appendices give you the working tools.

Sixteen chapters in five parts, plus Appendices A–E. 212 pages. Assumes futures basics; read Book 1 first if you need them.

$14.99PDF + EPUB download

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Tools and spreadsheet editions

The desk tools from the books, in two forms: printable PDFs you fill in by hand, and spreadsheet editions that do the arithmetic by formula. Spreadsheets work in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

Printable PDFs

  • Daily Trading Journal printable worksheet pages

    Daily Trading Journal

    A printable futures trading journal: pre-market plan, five-trade daily log, session summary, psychological audit, weekly and monthly reviews.

    12-page PDF, US Letter. Personal-use license.

    $12

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  • Pre-Market Analysis Checklist printable pages

    Pre-Market Analysis Checklist

    A five-phase pre-market routine for futures traders: calendar, overnight action, levels, scenarios, and a per-trade go/no-go check.

    9-page PDF, US Letter. Personal-use license.

    $9

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  • Risk Management Calculator printable worksheet pages

    Risk Management Calculator

    Position sizing worksheets, session risk limits, a 20-day drawdown tracker, and a contract-spec reference card for futures traders.

    11-page PDF, US Letter. Personal-use license.

    $14

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Spreadsheet editions

  • Prop Firm Challenge Tracker

    A spreadsheet that tracks your balance, trailing drawdown floor, and consistency rule day by day, so the numbers are never a surprise. The companion to The Prop Firm Playbook.

    XLSX spreadsheet, five tabs. Works in Excel and Google Sheets. Personal-use license.

    $19

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  • Risk Management Calculator worksheet pages, the tool whose Sheets edition adds live formulas

    Risk Management Calculator, Sheets Edition

    The risk calculator as a working spreadsheet: enter balance, risk, instrument, entry and stop; get size, dollar risk, and drawdown-adjusted size.

    XLSX spreadsheet, four tabs. Works in Excel and Google Sheets. Personal-use license.

    $19

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  • Daily Trading Journal pages, the journal whose Sheets edition adds automatic statistics

    Daily Trading Journal, Sheets Edition

    One running trade log that computes R multiples, win rate, expectancy, profit factor, per-setup results, and your equity curve as you trade.

    XLSX spreadsheet, three tabs. Works in Excel and Google Sheets. Personal-use license.

    $19

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Bundles

Both books together, or the complete working set. Files are delivered immediately after purchase. Personal-use license; no DRM.

The Futures Lab Book Bundle: both book covers

The Book Bundle

Both books as direct downloads: the beginner's guide to futures and the prop firm playbook, in PDF and EPUB.

  • Futures Trading for Beginners (Book 1)
  • The Prop Firm Playbook (Book 2)
  • About 80,700 words, in the order they are meant to be read

$24.99$29.98 bought separately — you save $4.99

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The complete set The Futures Lab Complete Bundle: both books and every tool

The Complete Bundle

Both books, every tool in printable PDF and spreadsheet form, and the challenge tracker. The complete Futures Lab working set.

  • Both books, PDF + EPUB
  • Journal, checklist, and risk calculator as printable PDFs
  • Journal and risk calculator again as spreadsheets with live formulas
  • Prop Firm Challenge Tracker spreadsheet

$39$121.98 at list price — you save $82.98

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Register your copy

Bought a book or a tool? Register the copy you own, and it stays current.

These books are dated on purpose. Prop firm rules, payout terms, contract specs, and tax figures change — and when they do, the books are corrected. Registration is how your copy keeps up: the corrected and updated edition is sent to you free when it is published. The same book, fixed — not a second purchase, and not an errata sheet bolted on the side.

  • Corrected and updated editions of what you bought, free
  • Rule and figure changes worked into the text itself
  • First access to new tools and new editions, before they are announced anywhere else

One email when an update to something you own is published. Nothing else — no signals, no newsletter treadmill.

The Trading Room

The Futures Doctor — Trading Room is the free community that goes with the books. It runs on Discord, and it is run the way the books are written.

Risk first. Journals open. No signals, no hype.

What happens inside

  • Daily pre-market thread — the checklist run in public before the open: calendar, levels, plan.
  • Journal ritual — members post the day's page from their journal. The record, not the highlight reel.
  • Weekly One Number review — one figure from the week — from your tracker or your journal — reviewed against the plan you wrote down.

The rules, in brief

  • Education, not advice — nobody in the room is your advisor.
  • No signals, no calls, no entries posted as tips.
  • No P&L screenshots without the journal page behind them.
  • No firm promotion, no affiliate links, no selling in DMs.

Join the Trading Room

The room opens to the email list first. Register your copy or join the updates list, and the invite comes to your inbox.

About The Futures Doctor

The Futures Doctor is the pen name of a futures trader who has traded evaluation and funded accounts for years. The books and tools are published by The Futures Lab.

The approach is the one the books teach: understand the contract before the chart, size positions from the stop instead of from confidence, write the plan down, keep the journal, and treat prop firm rules as part of the instrument you are trading.

The Futures Doctor and The Futures Lab are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any proprietary trading firm, broker, platform, or exchange named in the books.