Why are Futures and Forex more popular as financial instruments for short-term trading given that there are thousands of stocks out there which should provide more trading set-ups opportunities than Futures and Forex?

No statistics to prove that that futures and forex are more popular than stocks for short-term trading. But talking to people into this business, I do find that futures and forex are more popular for short-term trading. If yes, why so? I am puzzled why futures and forex given the limited choices. There are thousands of stocks but much fewer futures and currencies. Wouldn't there be fewer trading opportunities in futures and currencies as a result?

Submitted October 16, 2015 at 11:23AM by troycatalano http://ift.tt/1G9SBXl