So, I have been vanilla trading for a while(Basically HODL). I wanted to learn more about trading types and specialize into them and stumbled upon Derivative market (Options, Futures, forwards, Swaps, CFDs). Wanted to discuss about the pros and cons of learning them. At the moment I'm mainly interested in Options and Futures. What do you guys think? Worth learning? or no? Advantages? Disadvantages?
I totally agree, you do not need to do derivative trading to know what it is or how it works, you should learn it for simply just learning it and that's it. If you simply learn it to be smarter about trading I am pretty sure that will work for other stuff as well.
Like let's say you will do regular trading and so forth without any other stuff, no futures no leverage no derivative, simple regular old buy/sell day trading, if you know what derivatives are you surely will become a better trader at that as well. That is why learning more and more ways of trading could only help you, even if you do not do those tradings at least you can bring some information from there to your system.