I am learning all this stuff for the first time this year as well.

I wanted to say that options are a type of future, but the Internet doesn't seem to agree.
Even though the only difference between a future and option is the lack of the option.
A futures contract forces the trade after a certain amount of time while options do not.

The Internet likes to classify them as "derivatives"
Oh look I have have this in my archive from... 2019... lol.