Friday, October 22, 2010

E-mini Futures Tick Sizes

Tick Size is the minimum fluctuation on a futures contract. Rather than trade in penny increments like stocks, futures contracts trade in ticks. This value is denoted in various dollar amounts per contract. For euro futures a tick and pip is essentially the same thing.

E-mini S&P
• Ticker Symbol: ES
• Value of 1 Tick: $12.50
• Ticks per Point: 4

E-mini Dow
• Ticker Symbol: YM
• Value of 1 Tick: $5.00
• Ticks per Point: 1

E-mini NASDAQ
• Ticker Symbol: NQ
• Value of 1 Tick: $5.00
• Ticks per Point: 4

E-mini Russell
• Ticker Symbol: TF
• Value of 1 Tick: $10.00
• Ticks per Point: 10

E-mini Euro
• Ticker Symbol: 6E
• Value of 1 pip: $12.50
• Ticks per Point: n/a

An additional note, the S&P 500 aka. the “big” trades in $0.10 increments. Often times pit traders will buy contracts in the S&P pit @ a dime and using a headset flip them on the e-mini Globex exchange, this is known as big/mini arbitrage (arb).

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