Smart Money Futures

We help serious futures traders build the psychology, structure, and execution discipline needed to trade professionally.

I’m Patrick Furner, author of Trading on the Edge and a former licensed stock broker with 11+ years at E*TRADE, Morgan Stanley, and Fidelity.

This channel focuses on Trading Psychology and Auction Market Theory: value, acceptance, rejection, volume profile, order flow, VWAP, failed auctions, traps, and structural trade location.

You’ll also learn how to manage patience, hesitation, overtrading, revenge trading, drawdowns, and risk through a capital-preservation-first process.

Built around the Trading on the Edge framework: confirmation over prediction, structure over noise, and execution over excitement.

Subscribe to Smart Money Futures to build a more professional trading mindset and execution model.

Educational only. Futures trading involves substantial risk.

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When price reaches VAH, what do you look for first?

19 hours ago | [YT] | 2

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What causes more bad trades for retail futures traders?

2 days ago | [YT] | 1

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Lines on a chart do not create edge. Participant behavior creates edge. If I were to strip your chart down to just ONE tool for the next 5 days to force professional discipline, which would you keep?

6 days ago | [YT] | 3

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Mark Douglas said, "If you can learn to create a state of mind that is not affected by the market's behavior, the struggle will cease to exist." For those trading prop firm accounts—what is currently destroying your discipline?

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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Most retail traders treat VAH and VAL like automatic "buy" and "sell" buttons. At Morgan Stanley, we looked for acceptance or rejection—not just a touch. Which of these is the hardest part of your session right now?

1 week ago | [YT] | 4

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What Smart Money Futures video should I create next?

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What hurts your futures trading results the most?

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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What specific Futures trading topics do you want me to create videos about?

2 months ago | [YT] | 0