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Tick values for some popular contracts (as of June 2010 [1]) Futures Product Contract Size Tick Size Tick Value E-Mini S&P 500 ... Canadian Dollar (CME) C$100,000: 0 ...
NASDAQ-100 futures (ticker: ND) contract's tick is .25 index point = $25.00 [4] While the performance bond requirements vary from broker to broker, the CME requires equity ranging from $14,000-$17,500 to maintain the position.
That means that a price is quoted as, for instance, 99-30+, meaning 99 and 61/64 percent (or 30.5/32 percent) of the face value. As an example, "par the buck plus" means 100% plus 1/64 of 1% or 100.015625% of face value. Most European and Asian bond and futures prices are quoted in decimals so the "tick" size is 1/100 of 1%. [3]
S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
The minimum fluctuation (Commodity tick size) is half a basis point or 0.005%. Payment is the difference between the price paid for the contract (in ticks) multiplied by the "tick value" of the contract which is $12.50 per tick. Before the Last Trading Day the contract trades at market prices.
The contracts are for 40,000 pounds of Lean Hogs, and call for cash settlement based on the CME Lean Hog Index, which is a two-day weighted average of cash markets. Minimum tick size for the contract is $0.025 per pound, with each tick valued at $10 USD.