Stock Index Futures
Index futures have been wildly successful with investors, and the list of actively traded contracts grows bigger every year. Here you can evaluate your choices for trading and learn more about various stock index futures.
CME E-mini Education Center
Our CME E-mini Education Center offers valuable information pertaining to what E-mini futures are, and why you should consider trading these products. Learn more.
Building Your CME E-mini Futures Trading Strategy
In conjunction with Lind-Waldock and CME, Dan Gramza, President of Gramza Capital Management, leads you through an enlightening discussion of CME E-mini futures. Dan shows you how to trade stock index futures, and why he feels the dynamic CME E-mini markets are such compelling vehicles for traders large and small. Learn more.
Stock Index Investor Survival Kit
- CME E-Mini Stock Index Futures by the CME
- How to Get Started Trading CME Index Products by the CME
- CBOT Mini-Sized Dow: Trading the Market's Measure by the CBOT (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Narrow-Based Index Futures*
- Narrow-Based Index Construction by OneChicago
- Narrow-Based Indices Listings by OneChicago
- Settlement & Delivery of Narrow Indices by OneChicago
- Treatment of Corporate Events for Narrow-Based Indices by OneChicago (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
ETF Futures
Futures on Exchange-Traded Funds are available at CME and OneChicago
CME Futures on ETFs provide investors with three products that combine the benefits of two of the most successful product innovations of the last 10 years, CME E-mini stock index futures and the American Stock Exchange's Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Put together in an electronically traded futures contract, these products offer investors a fast, efficient way to access three liquid, premier ETFs and enjoy the benefits to trading futures contracts. The contracts trade from 8:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Chicago Time on weekdays. Learn more.
OneChicago's DIAMONDS Futures are futures contracts on the DIAMONDS Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which represents ownership in the DIAMONDS Trust, Series 1. The DIAMONDS ETF tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the most frequently cited market indicator in newspapers, on television and on the Internet. The exchange also offers SELECT SECTOR SPDR Futures, which are futures contracts on certain Select Sector SPDR Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), maintained by and Poors Corporation. Learn more.
Articles and Research
Comparing E-minis and ETFs
This research piece by John W. Labuszewski and Brett Vietmeier of CME Group analyzes the key differences between E-mini stock index futures and exchange-traded funds, and compares and contrast the advantages and disadvantages.
Glossary
- Definitions of Stock Index Terminology – A Quick Reference by Lind-Waldock
Useful Links
*Security futures are not suitable for all customers. Before investing in a security futures product, please contact Lind-Waldock at 800-445-2000 for a copy of the required Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). There is a substantial risk of loss in trading futures and options. February 2003.
