Retail trading conversations online increasingly sound like one giant futures trading convention.

Scroll through Reddit, YouTube or Discord trading groups and you’ll quickly notice a pattern: traders who once focused on forex or stocks now talk almost exclusively about futures contracts tied to indexes like the S&P 500 or Nasdaq.

“Why does everybody trade futures?” one trader summed up the growing sentiment in a recent Reddit thread. “I feel like no one trades actual forex anymore.”

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