Don’t get too hung up on futures being different than stocks, they work the same, just are more liquid. If you can trade stocks and ETF’s you can trade futures. Alot of people are afraid of them for some reason, which I can’t understand. I am more afraid of stocks due to the lack of liquidity in them vs futures and the patterns are not as good.

ES is just like trading the SPY but has better fills and round the clock access basically.