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The best free futures education, in order
Five channels and playlists that cover the concepts and the strategies — and the sequence that stops them contradicting each other.
The whole method is on YouTube for nothing. That's the problem — there's so much of it that most people watch for a year, collect twenty concepts, and still can't say which way the market is going tomorrow.
These are the five channels and playlists I'd actually point someone at, in the order I'd watch them. Not a reading list. A path.
Why the order matters
Almost everything in this space sits in one of three layers. Most people start in the middle, pick up a model they can't explain, and wonder why it stops working when conditions change.
The path
ICT Mentorship — Inner Circle Trader
Michael Huddleston's mentorship, released free on his own channel. Nearly every price-action educator you'll find on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok is downstream of these lectures — including three of the four below.
It is long, unstructured and repeats itself. Watch it anyway. This is where liquidity, fair value gaps, order blocks, market structure shifts and session timing actually get defined, and every later shortcut assumes you already know them.
- Watch for
- the vocabulary, not a strategy
- Don't expect
- a sequence you can trade tomorrow
TTrades
The same concepts, organised. TTrades takes what the mentorship scatters across hundreds of hours and turns it into named, teachable models — the Fractal Model, daily bias frameworks, Power of Three, kill zones, order blocks and breakers for continuations, top-down analysis across timeframes.
If the mentorship left you with a pile of ideas and no process, this is the channel that makes them into one.
- Watch for
- structure — how concepts combine into a sequence
- Strongest on
- daily bias and multi-timeframe alignment
Dodgy's Ultimate Bootcamp
A complete model built on ICT, aimed squarely at futures indices and at passing funded accounts. Market structure, liquidity, fair value gaps and inverse FVGs, order blocks, and the discipline to run them as a fixed set of rules rather than a feel.
He's blunt that it won't make sense without the mentorship behind it, which is exactly why it sits third rather than first. Watch it as a worked example of how layer one becomes a tradeable model.
- Watch for
- how a model gets assembled and bounded
- Useful if
- you keep failing evaluations on discipline
PB Trading
A playlist I rate and keep coming back to. Treat it the same way as the two above — a second pair of eyes on the same concepts, which is the fastest way to find out whether you understood them or just memorised one person's wording.
- Watch for
- a different framing of what you already know
AbhiFutures
Mine. Not another concepts channel — this is what running one model on real funded accounts looks like from India. Trade breakdowns on NQ, the firms I use and why, payouts into an Indian bank, and the rules I actually hold myself to.
Watch it last, because it only makes sense once you know what the concepts are. Everything I do is one narrow application of layer one.
- Watch for
- execution, risk and the prop-firm side
- India-specific
- session times, payouts, account buying
How to actually watch these
- One layer at a time, and finish it Jumping between a mentorship lecture and someone's model is how you end up with concepts that don't connect. Finish layer one before you touch layer two.
- Mark up a chart while you watch Passive watching feels like learning and isn't. Pause, find the same thing on your own chart, and only then move on.
- Pick one model and drop the rest After layer two you'll have three ways to trade the same idea. Blending them gives you something nobody has tested. Choose one and leave the others alone.
- Then stop watching and go test There is no video that makes you profitable. At some point you have to replay it yourself, on your own rules, and count the result.
That last step is the one that decides it, and it's written up separately — how to backtest effectively, and then the full roadmap from zero to funded.
Ask before you go deep
Hundreds of hours sit behind those five links. Which parts matter for what you're trying to do is worth a short conversation before you spend a month on the wrong ones.
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Say where you are and what's confusing you — usually it's one concept, not the whole thing.
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Learning is free. The account isn't — but it's cheap enough to be the easy part. These are the four firms I trade and what each is good for.
Four of the five resources here are other people's free YouTube content. I'm not affiliated with any of them, earn nothing from them, and don't control what they publish — links and content can change at any time. This is my own view of a sensible order to learn in, not an endorsement of any individual claim made in them. Education, not financial advice. Trading futures carries real risk, including loss of evaluation fees.