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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 : $50 x index: 0.25: $12.50
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]
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.
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 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.
Example of a stock chart, ... Ask size: 1000 Last sale: 89.06 Last size: 200 ... CFTC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversees the markets and their ...
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.
E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of standard futures. They are traded primarily on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.As of April, 2011, CME lists 44 unique E-mini contracts, [1] of which approximately 10 have average daily trading volumes of over 1,000 contracts.