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Hard to say without knowing the details of what you mean by “program”, and what kind of liability comes with it. 

But yes, there is a risk of losing more than you put in and owing money to the broker with futures (although highly mitigable).

Futures trading with leverage can wipe you out fast. If his system is legit, $800 from $100 is possible but sketchy. The real risk is over-leveraging and market volatility. A $1k account can blow up or even leave him in debt if margins are called. Ensure he understands risk management and the potential for losses.

I’d need to know the details.

But I trade futures everyday. You can trade for as little as $50/contract. Worst that happens is you lose your $50.

Not overly difficult to turn $100 into $800. But, again, it’s hard to say without knowing the details.

Brokers will close his trades before he hurts them too bad. But he can lose it all, then some.

Does he actually have $800 on HIS account or its just a number on the screen in some app? There is a scam like you "invest", "make" money, invest more.... And loosing money.

As others stated, hard to say what his max loss is based on your info, but you might want to ask him why anyone would selling system if they could make a killing trading.

This is entirely possible if he bought a prop firm challenge. In that case he is unlikely to lose more than the 100$ for the challenge. Question is how many challenges will he go through vs how many payouts is he going to get in the process.

If he is trading futures through a broker, there is a high chance that he will get margin called and liquidated before he could lose more than his account. This has to be verified with the broker, tho.

If he gets over leveraged and the market gaps up/down it could wipe the account out and cause him to owe money to the broker. It could blow through his stop loss and due to slippage you could end up owing the broker money.

Tell him to withdraw $100 asap and not put in more money. A popular scam in trading is showing numbers on screen but unable to withdraw any anount.

Futures trading can be done responsibly with proper risk management, but done irresponsibly can blow him up. I get the feeling you won’t trust your son to be responsible with risk management. I wouldn’t either. If he is paying someone to teach him how to trade, I would guess he has poor judgement. He is trying to buy a shortcut instead of putting in the work to learn himself. Plenty of these gurus on the internet offer paid courses, they are all scams.

$1000k as in $1000000?

You said he is a young adult. Sometime you have to let him learn a lesson. Maybe he is good and becomes a multimillionaire. Or he loses a small amount of money and you can teach him how you do it.
I love it when young people start investing at all. The eventually figure it out. I believe in long term investing. During 42 years of investing I have been long on everything I invest. I have had some big hitters in that time.
Retired at 51. Still invest and enjoy it.
Good luck with your son. One last thought. Give him a grand and see what he is doing. Participate in the win or loss. Cheap lessons either way.

Day trading is risky as it is. Just tell him not to trade margin at least and only trade money he’s willing to lose.

what kind of ”system” did he buy?

Sounds like he bought an education program with coaching or mentorship?

Not an actual computer algorithm that assists in the trading?

I will go out on a limb and say he likely has a 1% chance of being successful going the education route or the purchased algorithm route.

He should trade a demo account until profitable, sound advice but rarely heeded for long!

You can learn to trade but it is something can take a lot of time(unlikely to be accomplished within the time frame of coaching or mentorship).

An algorithm that wasn’t personally developed and tested has little chance of success, because it’s unlikely that the person using software developed by someone else, will be able to trust it when performance suffers.

A newbie who’s never encountered a 30% drawdown, likely won’t have the confidence or psychological strength, to stick to the system when a drawdown occurs and will likely quit trading out of fear of losing all their funds in the middle,of the drawdown, when a drawn down of that amount is a normal occurrence for that strategy.