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Interactive Options Course
Spot-Quoted futures are the latest innovations joining our Equity and Crypto suite starting June 30*. These smaller-sized contracts, designed to trade at the spot price, will provide active traders with an easily accessible and capital-efficient tool to manage exposure to bitcoin, ether, S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Market experts from CME Group along with Jim Iuorio, TJM Institutional Services, will discuss the fundamentals of Spot-Quoted futures, review different trading examples, and explain everything you need to know to get started.
Register for this online event below. Further instructions on how to join will be provided following registration. If you have any questions, please email events@cmegroup.com.
*Pending regulatory review
DATE:
June 26, 2025
TIME:
10:00 a.m. (CT)
11:00 a.m. (ET)
3:00 p.m. (GMT)
Register Here: https://events.cmegroup.com/event/f6607fc3-a817-4b66-8807-812e0ed386cf/summary
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Originally Posted on June 12, 2025
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Why still can’t open a position, an alert says : this product not available for trading
Hi Otman, thank you for contacting us. We are sorry to hear that you are having difficulties. To check whether a security is available for trading, type in the stock symbol or ISIN into an empty Watchlist line and hit Enter. If available, a window will appear giving you an opportunity to load the symbol into the Watchlist and place a trade. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/faq?id=23298957
We hope this helps.
I am facing the same problem, spot- quote futures have a symbol, you can chart them, load into a Watchlist, even start an order, fill in the order ticket, but when you send the order then get the message “this produt is not available for trading”. I have openned a ticket for the support team, but no answer yet.
Hello, thank you for reaching out. To check whether a security is available for trading, type in the stock symbol or ISIN into an empty Watchlist line and hit Enter. If available, a window will appear giving you an opportunity to load the symbol into the Watchlist and place a trade. Please view this FAQ for more information: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/faq?id=23298957
We hope this helps!
I have the same problem. Did you fix it?
Hi, thank you for reaching out. We are sorry to hear you are experiencing difficulties. Please follow the instructions above. If this does not work, please follow the instructions in this FAQ to request to add a product: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/faq?id=49279107
We hope this information is helpful!
The problem is not fixed at all. In fact, I sent a ticket a week ago and no answer yet. Ib answers here seem to come from a bot.
Hi Jm, thank you for reaching out and we apologize for the delayed response. Can you please send your web ticket number or email associated with your account to social@interactivebrokers.com, so we can best assist? We would appreciate the opportunity to turn around your experience.
Hi. I have the same problem. An alert says : this product not available for trading
Hi Kos, thank you for reaching out. To check whether a security is available for trading, type in the stock symbol or ISIN into an empty Watchlist line and hit Enter. If available, a window will appear giving you an opportunity to load the symbol into the Watchlist and place a trade. Please view this FAQ for more information: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/faq?id=23298957
We hope this helps answer your question!
The issue is still not resolved. Most if not all of the spot futures (QDOW for example) cannot be traded. Was there a regulatory problem maybe? Or is it a bug?
Hi, thank you for reaching out. This ticker should be available. For future reference, you can always review our available Products and Exchanges on our webpage: https://spr.ly/IBKR_ProductsExchangesCampus
For an account specific trading issue, please create a web ticket for Client Services: https://spr.ly/IBKR_TicketCampus