Why futures boards rhyme

Every track has closed its reading module on the rhyme. Futures close it with the explanation: the rhyme was never coincidence - it was this machinery, underneath everything.

Why the rhyme is literal here

A crude board and an index board share their actual mechanics: the same month-code grammar, the same volume-and-OI columns, the same settlement procedure logic, the same carry law setting their curves, the same roll migration on the same kind of schedule. Learning one board is learning them all - the platform's transfer-of-skills promise, made structural. The commodities track's charts rhymed with the indices track's because both were futures wearing different underlyings; this module has been reading the common machine directly.

Where the rhyme ends, on purpose

• The underlying speaks through the machine: crude's curve carries storage, the index's carries financing - same board, different physics, and module 5 routes each to its own track.
• The calendars differ: each family rolls, settles and expires on its own schedule - the machine is shared, its timetables are not.
• The tides differ: each family's primary session follows its underlying's home - one clock law, many time zones.

The module in one paragraph

Read the board in its grammar; convert every tick to money; read volume and OI together, per month, against the life cycle; read the curve as shape and the front as its alarm; respect the tides and anchor on the settlement; distrust the splice and honour the symbol; and read the future with its underlying, checking the tether. That is futures literacy - one skill set, every family. Module 3 prices what using it costs.