Disliked{quote} Great question...The answer is: Forex futures offer lower leverage ( typical leverage is around 1:14 or 1:15 max.), it requires higher margins and maintaining futures margins is like a pain in the ass ( read about maintenance margin in Futures market.) And also futures requires a lot of money to start with...Futures is the big players playground, don't even bother thinking about futures if you have anything less than a 100K, Yes you can still trade with like 20-30k in FX Futures, but you'll be extremely under capitalized and your risk of...Ignored
Ultimately futures are great if someone wants to trade commodities, stock Indices, etc.
In futures there are no half contracts so you can't size your position like you can in spot forex where you can have 3.4 lots etc. Other than that everything is the same.
And as I said 5 000 - 10 000 $ accounts are as equally good for futures as for spot forex.